“Lovely” is Just the Word for Being a Woman
Last month I wrote for The Federalist about an encouraging sign in marketing: celebrating the joys of being a woman! It was […]
Laura Vanderkam’s “I Know How She Does It”: Time Tracking and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Laura Vanderkam is a married mother of five, time management expert, and concise and insightful writer. Though it’s been several years since […]
“JustPearlyThings”: Pearl Davis and the Problem of the “Modern Woman”
People love to hate Pearl Davis. Like Nara Smith and Hilaria Baldwin, Pearl attracts no end of ire on the internet but […]
The Wonder Babies Evolve: Leaving Daycare
Last year, I was intrigued by a line in an article about the superhuman wonder babies of a “pronatalist” couple of almost […]
Who Is Nara Smith and Why Do People Find her “Dangerous”?
The “trad wife” trend has taken the world by storm and muddied the waters for any meaningful discussion of gender roles. Noticeably, […]
What Is the Proper Response to Feminism?
Have you ever met a vegan who had really nice leather seats in her car? I knew one, and her obsession with […]
Women in Combat: So Equal It Hurts
The presupposition of much of our public discourse is that radical and absolute equality between the sexes is not only possible but, […]
Julie Phillips’ “The Baby on the Fire Escape”: Incomplete Thoughts on Motherhood and Art
If you talk to enough women who are fascinated by the interplay between motherhood and creative endeavors, you will get the recommendation […]
Barbara Pym’s “Excellent Women” and Recollecting the Differences between Men and Women
“But perhaps Rockingham with his love of Victoriana also enjoyed cooking, for I had observed that men did not usually do things […]
What Stops Mothers from Creating? Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Womanhood as an Integrated Whole
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh and an aviator in her own right, thought she should have written more. […]