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By Michelle Brafman - Politics DailyMy Woman Up colleagues had much to say when the New York Times ran a short story on its op-ed page this summer. While we didn't agree where the story should run, we did uncover a shared allegiance to the form, and a hope that more mainstream media publications would follow suit. ...
The Real Friendships of Novelist Rona Jaffe
By Lizzie Skurnick - Politics DailyMy one peeve with the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Awards (click to see the just-released 2009 winners), is that, as is the case with most genuinely juicy writing grants, it's nomination-only. Drat!) The Jaffe prize is one of the few offered exclusively to women, despite the vast contributions over the years of literary observers such as Emily Bronte, Marilyn French and Margaret Atwood. Designed specifically "to make writing time available and provide assistance for such specific purposes as child care, research and related travel costs," to the very helpful tune of $25,000, the honor has ...
Did Bob McDonnell Read 'The Handmaid's Tale'?
By Domenica Marchetti - Politics DailyThree years before Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell submitted his now-famous thesis at Regent University, (in which he described working women as detrimental to the family, called for a "covenant view" of marriage, and said government should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals, and fornicators"), the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood published her novel "The Handmaid's Tale." The same principles that McDonnell puts forth in his thesis are imagined into action in the extreme. ...
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