Sitting down to write a blog post in honor of St. Joan of Arc's feast day is a somewhat daunting task, I've discovered. Part of me is tempted to forgo it altogether. There are plenty of excuses standing between me and my keyboard: I've written a post on her before, there is so much literature…
By now, we are all used to hearing the phrase "women's empowerment." It has become almost synonymous with the notion of feminism. In some ways, this is a positive development. For most of history, women were kept on the sidelines and prevented from holding positions of authority simply because they were not men. In the…
The New Feminist 