What we tell one another

Bitch, Ph.D. was invited to give a talk. Not her author; the persona, the blogger. She posted the text of her talk on the web, and it's both a typically neat mix of academic and personal (thought-provoking and touching in turn) and also a different way of formulating what feminism means, what it offers to both men and women, how it can challenge our expectations and our sense of how we fit in to a societal "story." Worth reading the whole thing over lunch or coffee -- I couldn't find a single excerpt that would begin to do it justice.