Some people say feminism’s Fourth Wave began in 2012.  I see little evidence of it.  Frankly, I’m dubious that the Third Wave of the 1970s ever existed. That was the era when women talked of being more inclusive than was possible in the First and Second Wave.  It’s a laud

Continuing remarks from Monday’s January 2, 2017 blog. (Drawing the Red Line edition.  “Not Going Back,” by Gaylynn Burroughs, Ms. Magazine pgs. 20-25.)  Other woman’s programs to be affected. Women’s Programs Title IX – The Obama administration used Title IX to hold

Recently, my publisher and I had a discussion about Rachel Farraday, the heroine of my upcoming novel, Trompe l’Oeil. She wondered if my character needed to be more assertive to satisfy the modern view of women. Where, she wondered, was the grittiness of Victorine Ellsworth, the sch