Just a friendly reminder that our first book club meeting—to discuss Anne Harrington’s Mind-Fixers—is on Wednesday, September 14! Details here. Hope to see you then.
What I’ve been reading:
"Historians deal primarily with the visible remains of visible things… No wonder that an inner touch experienced only by women has gone unobserved and unnoted. When historians have described the joys, pleasures, and ecstasies of the flesh, they have always implied that women experience something analogous. It now seems past time to focus on quickening—coming to life—even if at least half the readers wonder.”
- Barbara Duden, Disembodying Women
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