Is plastic surgery today’s foot binding?
For a thousand years, Chinese families forced their young daughters to submit to a painful process called foot binding, which supposedly rendered them desirable and beautiful (but often left them crippled and diseased). People came to their senses early in the 20th century, and the procedure became illegal in 1911. You’d think we’d learn from [...]
Movie Review: The Women
By Keysha Whitaker The Women (written and directed by Diane English – think “Murphy Brown”) was just that, a film of an all-star cast of women – following in the footsteps of its 1936 and 1939 stage and film predecessors respectively. The movie follows four friends, Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), Sylvie Fowler (Annette Benning), Alex [...]
