October 20, 2006

A Healthy Dose of Heroine

By CARLIN ROMANO

Give us your mired (cultural icons), your poor (-ly grasped feminist forebears), your muddled lasses yearning to be understood. The kvetched refuse of your teeming highbrow shores. Send these, the tomeless, cybertossed and Wikipedized, to us, care of younger women scholars. We — and they — abandon our vamps beside these golden nonbores.

 — Call for Manuscripts on Misunderstood, Departed Women Intellectuals

In Why Arendt Matters (Yale University

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