Blindsight

Neurobiology, philosophy and consciousness, here.

And Her, Too

Still loving Caitlin Flanagan. Pretty good review piece here on college life for girls. Her single insight---that girls are more attached to home than are boys---feels right, but of course it's difficult to get data on that sort of thing. And what about the fact that most cultures have been patrilocal---the bride leaves her family, the groom stays with his?

Ya Gotta Love Her

And you know, I really do. Seriously. Linda Hirschman again, here.

Oh wow

http://news.ufl.edu/2007/03/21/breast-augment/

Cosmetic Surgery

Stats here.

Second Wave Catches the Third

Sex-positive grandmas, here.

Working Girls

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?search_term=alison+wolf&id=7398

Gender Wars

NYT story on women and sexual assault in the military, here. Elicited every conceivable response in this reader. And a question, too: women usually enjoy more sexual bargaining power when they are in a minority among men, not less. So what makes the military different?

Pussycat Roars

Softcore steals feminism's phrasebook, and talks its way onto primetime, here.

Knife to the Heart

Dear Mom and dad Pless tell me wat it will Be like wen I am Baptisd. Tell me wen your prers were Ansrd. love Elena

More books

Nora Ephron, Heartburn.

Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.

Darwin's God and its Gaps

NYT, "Darwin's God," here.