Trayvon Martin could not have been me. Not now. Not 35 years ago, when, like President Obama, I was Trayvon Martin’s’ age. The reason is plain: I am a white […]
Author: Susan Celia Greenfield
Susan Celia Greenfield, Associate Professor of English at Fordham University, is the author of Mothering Daughters: Novels and the Politics of Family Romance and of many scholarly articles on early women novelists. In addition to the Ms. Blog, her op-eds and reviews have appeared in CNN Opinion, The Huffington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and PBS Need to Know. She also publishes short fiction.
Of Jane Austen, the Bennet Sisters… and VAWA?
“I let him film us having sex, Lizzie. I let him do that. … He never made me do anything, so just tell me that I didn’t get what I […]
Downton Abbey Meets Roe v. Wade
In the wake of Roe v. Wade’s 40th anniversary, Sybil’s death reminds American viewers of the tragedies accruing with each new assault on women’s rights.
Pride and Prejudice at 200: Stop Looking for Mr. Darcy!
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries reminds us of what Jane Austen intended all along: this is a story about a heroine who must learn to see herself.