by Michele Genthon | Sep 26, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reflecting
Last month demonstrators marched down the streets of Seattle to show support for Catholic nuns who are being investigated by the Vatican for their feminist views. When I heard about the march, I counted back. It had been more than three decades since my last...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 29, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reflecting
One woman leads to another and all women flow in a circle. I am drafting a historical novel about Elena Piscopia, the first woman to receive an academic degree and she was on my mind when I was reading Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt. When he referenced Hypatia I saw an...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 6, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reflecting
After reading about her in Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I have been pondering the story of Hypatia. Sensing some parallels between Hypatia’s life and Elena Piscopia’s, I researched further to clarify my suspicions. Many of the facts of...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 10, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reflecting
On the cusp of the women’s movement, a young anthropologist, an idealistic woman from Kansas and other parts of the country, travels to Indonesia. She studies textiles and blacksmithing in small villages. She creates microcredit programs while working for the United...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 8, 2012 | MUSINGS, Reading
The book Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life provoked my thinking about women’s stories. I read the book because I was intrigued by the title, imagining an autobiography with an imaginative twist. I was surprised to find that Mrs. Nixon was simply the...
