This week, I held a book written by my great-great-great-great grandmother.
Esther Beauzeville was born in 1786. She was descended from Huguenots who had escaped from France in the late 17th century, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. She married the Reverend James Hewlett in 1809, and they had five children, the fourth of whom [...]
Archive for January, 2009
A Remarkable Woman
Posted in Feminism, Life on 25 January, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Momentous
Posted in Civil Liberties on 22 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Watching the Obama Inauguration, from a country deeply affected by American politics, but still outside it, has been wonderful (although I have to admit that 3 am was just too early for me to watch it live). But reading Elizabeth at Half Changed World’s description of actually being there has reminded me of the one [...]
Boot camp
Posted in Economics on 18 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve just started doing boot camp at 6 am two mornings a week. In the last few years, there has been quite a bit of controversy (a Melbourne link, but we had the same issue in Sydney, too) over boot camps taking over local parks, which I had read without taking sides very much. Many, if [...]
Feminist Book review
Posted in Book Reviews, Feminism on 10 January, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In today’s book review, I’m doing a combined review of two Australian feminist books that were published in 2008. The Great Feminist Denial, by Monica Dux and Zora Simic, and The F word – how we learned to swear by Feminism, by Jane Caro and Catherine Fox. First a disclosure of my biases. I got [...]
Market Forces
Posted in Australian Politics, Economics on 2 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The thought that the market can do anything better than the public sector has become pretty unpopular in the last six months. Nevertheless, I still believe it. And I’m going to illustrate it today with one public service that is pretty close to being a basket case; Sydney Ferries.
Sydney Ferries has a terrible history of [...]
Reading 2009
Posted in Life on 1 January, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I spent part of New Year’s Eve updating my reading list for 2008, which was quite interesting. I couldn’t resist a few statistics:
There were fifteen fiction books, with my rating ranging from three stars to two at five stars:
Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and
How to Twist a Dragon’s Tale, by Cressida Cowell (a [...]
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