[…] correcting “the morals of the community.” The secret oaths and penalties were not entirely effective, however, and news soon leaked out among the church that there was “a secret group of Saints, including women, […]
[…] slid the lily into the fluted neck, turned the flower to an angle that would suit her English gardener’s eye, and set it on the wood table. Then she handed the cup to the […]
[…] them with figures found in other historical and textual contexts. It is simply not valid, however, to search through 3,000 years of Egyptian religious iconography to find parallels which can be pushed, prodded, squeezed, […]
[…] Someone on the faculty had invited Stegner, one of the U’s better-known alumni, to talk informally with English majors and student writers. I qualified on both counts. Stegner appeared to me then the way […]
Because last night was Friday night I had to search to find a quiet place and when I found it I wanted to leave it though I wasn’t even working off a mean gin drunk.
[…] the spring of 1993 I attended my first Mormon feminist retreat, Pilgrimage, with several graduate students and English teachers—all women in our twenties or early thirties—who had met together once a week for nearly […]
“Mrs. Greer, you must abort your baby.” The words wrapped me in horror. They offered a solution worse than the problem could ever be. I had cancer, now I was pregnant, and Dr. Krueger wanted…
He speaks in a poetry of mumbles, not quite rambling under the breaking sky about what happened half his life ago and the end of a promise that makes him angry. Shows the confusion
[…] related to pigs.” “Pigs! Gross!” Oh, what about my metaphors? I thought. This is supposed to be English. “Listen, Jared, class. Why are you so upset? It seems to me that Mr. Lov ell’s […]
[…] Victimized Children (New York: The Free Press, 1979); David Finkelhor, Child Sexual Abuse: New Theory and Re search (New York: The Free Press, 1984); Wolfe et al. Diana Russell, Sexual Exploitation: Rape, Child Sexual […]