When we talk about the agrarian crisis in India and the quarter of a million farmers who have committed suicide since 1995, we tend to think about the men and […]
Author: Amy Williams
Amy Williams recently earned her Masters in English from Binghamton University and will be starting work on a Masters in Teaching at Ithaca College this summer.
Where’s the Women’s Opportunity?
For the last thirty years, displaced homemaker centers in New York have provided crucial computer training services, employment counseling, and other support services for nearly a quarter of a million low-income women struggling to re-enter the work force after abandonment, divorce, separation or death of a partner or spouse. As of November 1st of this year, however, all of New York state’s twenty-two displaced homemaker centers will be non-existent, thanks to massive budget cuts in the state.
The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine (No, Not a Cookbook)
Rosa Achmetowna, the unapologetically manipulative, judgmental and unruly Tartar matriarch in Alina Bronsky’s The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine, makes “tiger mother” Amy Chua look like a pushover. The […]
Julia Alvarez Illuminates Our Competing Truths
The feeling of un-belonging or “between-ness”–in gender, country, language, family–is one that unites many of us who experience a certain ambivalence in our identities as citizens, daughters, artists and women. […]
Sexual Violence on Campus: The Damage Done
When I was a sophomore at a small, liberal arts college in the Pacific Northwest, I wrote an article in the campus newspaper that upset some men in my dorm […]
Good Journalism Is Worth Dying For
During her career as an investigative reporter in Russia, Anna Politkovskaya was poisoned, tortured, kidnapped and threatened with rape. “What am I guilty of?” Politkovskaya wrote in an article that […]
Warning: You Could be Pre-Pregnant
What ethical complications arise when physicians imagine all women of reproductive age to be potential moms, whether or not these women ever want or plan to become pregnant? That’s what […]
Book Review: Chills and Thrills in “Haiti Noir”
Even before the earthquake ravaged Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and surrounding cities Léogâne, Petit-Goâve and Jacmel in January 2010, Haiti was synonymous with abysmal poverty, destruction and disease for many people. […]
I Heart Deadly Women
I can’t help but love Jane Greer and Barbara Stanwyck for their striking performances as femme fatales (deadly women) in the 1940’s film noirs Out of the Past and Double […]
Four Ways to Fight Sexist Interviewers
If subtle gender biases can influence hiring decisions, what can women do about it? Here are some ideas: 1) The illegal interview question: know how to respond. Many hiring interviews […]