Notes from the Officer's Club

It's been kind of a weird month. One of my classmates from OBC died at the beginning of November when an IED hit her HMMWV. I haven...

After reading Suite Francaise , it took me a while to get into another book. Once I finally got into Feminist Theory by bell hooks, howeve...

One of the soldiers out here has a word a day calendar, and recently the word was nostalgia or nostalgic. The calendar went with the definit...

I finished reading Angela Davis’s work Women, Race and Class . I had read a few chapters for my feminist theory class back in the day, and ...

Bookwise: Hardcore by Linda Williams – Originally published in the late ‘80s, this book has since become a classic in pornography studies. ...

I finished reading Women and Gender in Islam today. I enjoyed it and thought it was an informative introduction to the topic, but I would b...

I've lost all concept of time. It's not that the days fly by here in any way, but since they all seem basically the same, it's h...