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ZOMG the Pirates movie sounds so fun :D Actually, I'm excited about all of those, and the only one I was already aware of was The Woman in Black *lives under a rock*

Renay, we were talking about your bigh secret blog project when I brought up The Influencing Machine - a lot of what Gladstone says relates to the complicated feelings you were having about it. This will all make sense once you read it, hopefully :P

Ha, I actually think of Carol Gilligan a bit more kindly these days (though I still think she's wrong, of course :P), partially thanks to Reading Women. I was very angry at her in my head for a very long time, because I was first exposed to her work in my teens and it put me off feminism at a time when it would have REALLY helped me. Of course, Gilligan herself isn't to blame for that - there's the teacher who presented difference feminism as the only thing there was, and there's my own lazy self, who didn't do enough research to have realised that feminism is not a monolith, and that anti-essentialism is actually a lot bigger than Gilligan's position. But still, I have all these feelings :P

Anyway, Katha Pollitt is really amazing, and so is Hanne Blank. I'm dying to get my hands on her new book, Straight, which is about the "surprisingly short history of heterosexuality". How awesome a subtitle is that?