Academic reference inflation has set in, and everyone is simply wonderful
Every day I receive requests from former and current students, or people whose work I have read or examined, or met in a lift, to write in support of their application for further study or for academic jobs. I'm usually happy to do my bit. But as …
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'Anger Boiled Up, and Betty Friedan Was There': 'Feminine Mystique' at 50
In the introduction to the anniversary edition of The Feminine Mystique you write, "For all of history, average but ambitious women dreamed of careers as full-time housewives." Many women in the 1950s finally achieved this dream. So how did Friedan's …
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Continental Tire Plans to Invest 9 Million in Illinois Facility
1/29/2013 – Continental Tire Plans to Invest $ 129 Million in Illinois Facility Continental Tire the Americas announces plans to invest $ 129 million in its Mt. Vernon, Illinois tire facility and create more than 100 new full-time jobs over the next …
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