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Stella Fosse

What Feminism Missed

What Feminism Missed Economics tells us the obvious: that when supply goes up, price goes down.  And price does not only mean the cost of diamonds or real estate; it also means wages. In the early 1960s my mother returned

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Stella Fosse

A Pandemic Thanksgiving Memorial

A Pandemic Thanksgiving Memorial My mother died on Pandemic Thanksgiving. She spent the last two years of her life in hospice, in a nursing home, and most of the last year of her life cut off from family and visitors.

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The Fabulous Orgasmic Life of Betty Dodson

The Fabulous Orgasmic Life of Betty Dodson Betty Dodson was a sexual pioneer who believed that in order to be truly equal, women must be independent from men for their sexual satisfaction.  She is famous for her trailblazing work empowering

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Stella Fosse

Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire

Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire I ran across the new vampire novel Forever 51 The Menopausal Vampire in a list of newly published books online. I’ve now had hot flashes for a quarter of a century, so of course I was

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Dare to Dream Madam Vice President

Dare to Dream Madam Vice President We live in history every day, and some days that truth is crystal clear.  As I write this it has just been announced that Kamala Devi Harris, a 56-year-old woman of African American and

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And Now the Days of Writerly Excess

And Now the Days of Writerly Excess   When October has come and gone, when your costume is back in the box and your Jack O’Lantern has grinned its last grin, it’s time for that annual festival of writerly excess,

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