Tag Archives: research

Feminist Collections

Posted on June 14, 2011 by

My contributor’s copy of the winter 2011 Feminist Collections has arrived in the mail.  I’m quite pleased that its “Round-Up 4: FaceBook, Podcasts & Twitter in Women’s Studies” includes my short essay on using FaceBook in the women’s studies classroom. … Continue reading →

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Scholarship and practice

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

What is the relationship between scholarship and spiritual practice?  That’s a question I asked my Pagan Elders and Ancestors students to consider. It came up after we read historian Ronald Hutton’s assessment of Starhawk’s work, in which he writes that … Continue reading →

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Homebirth on the rise

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

Homebirth is on the rise!  Between 2004 and 2008 homebirths in the U.S. rose 20%. This still represents a pretty small number of the total U.S. births – only about 1%.  Still, the increase is significant. The rise in homebirths … Continue reading →

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I love a good archive

Posted on May 5, 2011 by

Here’s some of what I saw yesterday in the Starhawk Collection at the Graduate Theological Union library: manuscripts written on typewriters and more recent ones printed from 1980s computers, handwritten notes, flyers for events spanning nearly half a century, proposals … Continue reading →

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Friday reading list

Posted on April 22, 2011 by

A new crop of tasty links for you, fresh from the Internet: If you are a polytheist, you can participate in a study about personal experience in polytheism. Witch Mom linked to this funny public radio monologue about answering a … Continue reading →

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Friday reading list

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

This week’s reading list features mother troubles – working at home with kids, poor perception of breast feeders, the Breast Milk Baby controversy, and parents in poverty who can’t afford diapers: Being a work at home mom is like this. … Continue reading →

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Starhawk course

Posted on March 16, 2011 by

Cherry Hill Seminary has just announced the summer line-up of courses.  I’m excited to be offering a 4 week foundations course.  These courses offer a great opportunity to increase your knowledge or get a taste of the seminary without committing … Continue reading →

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Religious knowledge, religious life

Posted on October 11, 2010 by

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the new Pew Forum survey on religious knowledge.  The take-home message many are deriving from the results is that atheists, Jews, and Mormons outscore Protestants and Catholics on religious knowledge, and that … Continue reading →

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Reading list

Posted on October 1, 2010 by

Take a peek into my recent browser history: A Similac recall stirred up lactivist sentiment.  Sierra’s Strollerderby post about it describes a de facto milkbank that I contributed to. A new study shows that teens who have abortions are no … Continue reading →

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Friday links

Posted on August 27, 2010 by

Bridget has cut not only her fist but also her second tooth in the last week or so, making her a rather needy little person.  Also, I failed to arrange for childcare for my work time in the past week.  … Continue reading →

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