Philobiblon

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” posts.

I’m on my way to a collection of 300 female bloggers.

Irish Witch on The Daily Kos lays out exactly why abortion rights are a deal-breaker. (Something I fear American women are going to have to work very, very hard to maintain.)

Fighting another good fight, the (wisely) anonymous author of What Now has run slap bang into academic non-freedom at the institution she calls “St Martyr’s”.

Still on the academic side, the author of Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (I can only admire her – the only thing I do before breakfast is stagger out of bed) is thinking about how to develop an academic voice. (Likely to also be of interest to writers in other areas.)

Joy on Joy of Knitting finds that we are still living in a romantic society and she’s convinced it is the source of many of our ills. She probably wouldn’t like all of the children called Kloe or Kayleigh or Bobby-Jo or Jordyn, being discussed by Allison on Don’t Let’s Start.

Aekta on Whirlwings is reflecting on some gender research is strictly for the birds – swallows in this case. They’re a fickle lot, those female swallows.

Monica on In Small Pieces has meanwhile been encouraged to research human sexual categories by an unusual dance troupe.

Chameleon on Redemption Blues gets stuck into issue of food and feminism. On similar lines, Lilian on Mama(e) in Translation asks: Would you like to have your meal in a public toilet? (Yep,some people still can’t cope with breastfeeding in public.)

Finally, some lovely, soothing fractals – mathematically generated images, with a word-description, or for a good laugh join Annie on The Not-Quite Sunday Funnies, where she asked, how the Crazy Frog was castrated?

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Last week’s edition is here.

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Remember nominations are hugely welcome – I’ll probably get to you eventually anyway, but why not hurry along the process?

Women

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” posts.

This week I’m half the way to taking the collection to 300.

To begin, a femmes fatales first, a bloggers’ wedding. The Velveteen Rabbi officiated at the wedding of a couple who met at BlogCon. Altogether now … ahhhhhhh …. (No I’m not anti-matrimony exactly, but I do find it an odd concept. However, to each their own.)

Now blogging about your fight with cancer sounds like a depressing subject, but in Minerva of A Woman of Many Parts can only be described as inspirational, in her personal message to her cancer.

The author of Entelechy, meanwhile, is confronting a difficult decision: whether to take on a challenging job helping to look after disabled children in addition to her studies.

Turning political, Panthergirl on The Dog’s Breakfast finds that Georgia’s governor seems to think all children live in two-parent families, with one at home. Betsy on her Page says that Americans shouldn’t be talking about pork-barrelling, but the spreading of grease. (The metaphor works rather nicely, you’ll find.)

On Crip’s Chronicles, meanwhile, Teri is explaining why you can’t afford to be disabled AND poor.

Now this is an old post, but it is on a subject close to my heart, as you can see from the link in my sidebar to Ethiopiaid. Amber Henshaw has been visiting the fistula hospital in Addis Ababa.

Still in Ethiopia (no, I don’t get to write that often), Thea Keeps Painting the Planet is at the main celebration for the Meskil Holiday, the biggest in the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar – it gets dramatic at the end.

Now The Budget Fashionista might not be everyone’s cup of tea, and her advice is mostly relevant to the US, but when she’s getting stuck into the editor of American Vogue, I’m happy to link up.

On At Home wiith the McMuffins, meanwhile, Mrs McMuffin is waiting for the stork to arrive. She really hopes it is not delayed.

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Last week’s edition is here.

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Remember nominations are hugely welcome – I’ll probably get to you eventually anyway, but why not hurry along the process?

Women

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” posts.

This week I’m a bit further on my way to the collection of 300.

First, I have to highlight Claire’s extremely promising new blog, We Are Still Here, which combines interests in feminism and history, so you can guess it is why the top of this list. Claire has been browsing the many little-known female writers on Project Gutenberg.

Staying on the artistic side, Gert, who promises she’s “woman-shaped”, on Mad Musings of Me, reviews a Donizetti concert performance. On Sudden Nothing, meanwhile, the Legendary Monkey wrestles with the difficult problem of writing about truth that is stranger than fiction. Then Deepa on Tea Shop on the Moon (what a lovely image) writes about Kamala Das, “one of the first women in India” to write about sex outside marriage, saying only now is she able to comprehend her courage, and her craft.

Moving on to “real life”, or something like that, Colette on Dancing on Colette’s Grave writes about the perils of internet dating. Bitter-Girl, who boasts she’s “now with extra cranky” is meanwhile detailing the perils of life in Cleveland and Lisset on Did I SHave My Legs for This? is lamenting the disconnections caused by the night shift. (Know the feeling – you might notice I often post at some pretty odd times.)

If that seems a bit depressing, then Laura Young on Musings of an Ant Watcher introduces Rasputina’s “wicked romp” “through territory one would never have dreamt possible for two cellists and a drummer” and Connie Phillips on Blogcritics is celebrating The Vanity Project, a musical celebration of “the LA dream”.

Finally, for those not yet convinced about Bill Gates and company, The Common Scold notes its non-existent diversity policy.

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Last week’s edition is here.

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Remember nominations are hugely welcome – I’ll probably get to you eventually anyway, but why not hurry along the process?

Women

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” posts.

After a fortnight of returning to old stamping grounds, this week I’m recommencing the collection of new female bloggers, on my way to an nice even number of 300.

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A Little Pregnant, who was obviously rather more than that, offers personal reflection and family accounts of Katrina, while in the other big US news of the week,”Pissed-off Patricia” on Blondesense has a pithy selection of questions for Judge Roberts.

Back in the UK, Gendergeek is angered by a spurious connection being made feminism and paedophilia.

Jenny D. on Back Talk asks some of the big questions: Can you teach? How do you know? Still in schools, on The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, you-can-guess-who asks if kids should be punished for their parents.

On the artistic side, Sweet Jane on Parisist is getting away from the grey of a Paris autumn with a spectacular art installation. (Even if you can’t read the French, check out the pics.) Jeanne on Body and Soul discusses the – rather odd when you think about it – idea of turning blogs into books.

Open Brackets, meanwhile, has come up with some useful new words, including Grouptard: [user] group + retard: The maddening and ever-present fool who apparently always populates otherwise lovely user groups.

On the personal side, Sara Lynn on the beautifully named Yeah, But Houdini Didn’t Have These Hips reports on how not to have a birthday. Belle in the Big Apple, meanwhile, is waying the choices and compromises of city life versus the Southern Boy. (Don’t tie yourself down, I’d say.)

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Last week’s edition is here.

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Remember nominations are hugely welcome – I’ll probably get to you eventually anyway, but why not hurry along the process?

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Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” posts.

Since I’m on holiday in France, I should be looking for French female bloggers, but to be frank the internet cafe is neither comfortable enough – it is supposed to be non fumeur but I keep getting great gusts of cigarette smoke from the air-conditioning – nor is the beach far enough away – to justify it. So if you know any, please tell me about them (whether they write in French or English).

So again this week I’m revisiting some old favourites …

Now I haven’t been following the Katrina debate in the blogosphere this week – after some spirited engagements on Blogcritics last week – but reading it in the French papers instead. (And yes they are slightly gloating, but then after a couple of years of being called cheese-easting surrender monkeys I can excuse that.)

But Bitch PhD has a nice roundup of blogs on the subject, and some thoughts of her own. Sharon on Early Modern Notes, meanwhile, is finding parallels in the Great Fire of London, “a vulnerable city, warnings ignored….” There’s also a nice collection of links about the “Great Plague”, in cqse you were wondering about what might be next.

Frogs and Ravens has a solution, impeachment. Much as I agree with her sentiments, I just can’t face it – imagine going through the whole Clinton saga all over again! Kameron on Brutal Women, meanwhile, reports that an entire city in Oregon disappeared under similar circumstances. (The question I haven’t seen asked, but keep wondering about, is whether it makes any sense to rebuild New Orleans, when an equally bad or even worse hurricane could just as easily come along next year, or next decade?)

After all of that it must be time for a laugh: Pandagon suggests some strategies for the “wingnuts” to combat feminism. Remember, coupon-cutting is a Marxist activity. America This Is Serious, meanwhile, finds that a Seventies book of lesbian ethics still has worthwhile messages for everyone.

Jessica on Feministing, in the meantime, has found a must-read “part memoir, part cultural commentary”, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants.

Staying literary, The Little Professor is sceptical about a claim for a newly discovered source for Oliver Twist. Shouldn’t someone have noticed at the time, she asks?

Then for a serious lump of real life, visit Real E Fun. She’s a non-religious funeral celebrant, but don’t let that put you off. The author of Personal Political, meanwhile, is encountering a new dilemma in an encounter with religion as a lesbian mother.

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Last week’s edition is here.

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Next week I’ll probably start collecting my next hundred female bloggers, to eventually take my total to 300, so if you’ve any nominations – including of your own blog – please leave in the comments.

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly “top ten” collection.

I’m going to take it easy for the next couple of weeks; I’m mostly revisiting some of the old favourites. I’ll probably pick up the hunt for new bloggers after that. Nominations of new blogs to include are still, however, highly welcome.

So to links …

First to the big news of the week, Coleen on Some of My Days writes about being a refugee from Katrina, while Vanessa at Feministing explores the opportunities and threats for women in the new Iraqi constitution.

Echidne of the Snakes looks at the resignation of a woman with principles from the FDA. “Maybe this is the only workable alternative right now: don’t play wingnut games and watch the world collapse,” she says.

Egalia at Tennessee Guerrilla Women revists another infamous Pat Robertson quote. Trish Wilson at The Countess, meanwhile, has found a Chinese researcher on a similar wavelength: the greatest threat to civilisation as we know it is … nude web surfing.

Laura on Clewes: The Historic True Crime Blog has found an account of a carnival dummy that was actually a mummy. I was particularly taken with this tale since it seems to be the basis for a novel by my favourite crime writer, Kerry Greenwood.

On Purple Elephant’s Corner, there’s a scarey, but happy, encounter with Mother’s ruin – gin if you don’t know the term.

Now if you live in London you often see big groups of American teens over here on tours. Lisa is in Oxford, but she has the same enthusiasm for new experiences you see in London – something old cynics like myself should probably try to recapture occasionally. Pen-Elayne, meanwhile, is offering a photographic tour of New York.

Finally, Pandagon takes right-wing horror about girl scouts learning to look out for themselves and runs with it in: First you let the girls scout and next thing you know, you’ve got maruading bands of man-killers. I’m waiting for someone to take it seriously; bound to happen.

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Last week’s Femmes Fatales is here, if you missed it.

The collection of the first hundred is here. The second hundred will be collected soon, I promise!

Women, Feminism