catapult magazine

vol. 7, num. 21 :: 2008.11.21 — 2008.12.05

As much as social structures and roles have changed with regard to gender equality, deeply ingrained ideas remain about what is feminine. Are these aspects of the 21st century to be embraced or resisted—or some combination of the two?

Feature

Femininity and the Big-Boned Gal

by Denise Frame Harlan

Reflecting on identity via a mother's larger-than-life mythology.

Editorial

Unequal embrace

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Contextualizing a healthy sense of gender identity within a hierarchy of privilege.

Articles

The mouse that roared

by Alex Joyner

A sixth grade boy stumbles upon mystique on the middle school stage.

A porch glider and a glass of sweet tea

by Katherine Cooper Wyma

A grandmother's humble lessons about what it means to be a woman.

Finding my feminine

by Sarah Bailey

Seeking good questions and good answers on a personal journey toward feminism.

An essay unwritten

by Amy Carpenter Leugs

On receiving a call for submissions for the "Women's Worlds" issue of catapult magazine.

To be two

by Benjamin Groenewold Van Dyk

A fantastic tale about losing--and finding--one's voice.

Conversation: “Women’s Worlds”

by The *cino Community

Your opportunity to be a part of the conversation about women and femininity.

How to have a meaningful Christmas

by Mother Clare Watts

Embracing mystical experience as a means of understanding the incarnation.

Reviews

High school drama

by Grant Elgersma

A review of the teen noir film Brick.

Gallery

Dia Nublado

by Rima Campbell

Front Porch Gliders

by Dan Thress

In case you missed it the first time

On becoming a Diva for Jesus

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Some words about conscious personal care for women, with a warning to those who faint at the thought of seeing The Vagina Monologues.

Into Esther

by Lauren Winner

A keynote address from Jubilee 2006 that takes a look at what one of the Old Testament's more obscure texts is speaking to us here and now.

Neither Minnie Mouse nor Wonder Woman

by Bill Boerman-Cornell and Annette Witte

An overview of the genre and two specific novels reveals changing images of women.

Weaving the web

Broadway’s Glass Ceiling

TheresaRebeck.com

Why an artistic culture dominated by men is a problem.

Ain’t I a Mommy?

Bitch Magazine

Bookstores brim with motherhood memoirs. Why are so few of them penned by women of color?

Mothers

Killing the Buddha

An excerpt from Greg Bottoms’ new book Fight Scenes.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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