Women's News & Narratives: The Center for Women Magazine
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Fall 2007 |
Women's News and Narratives is an online magazine published by the Center for Women at Emory (CWE). If you wish to be notified each time a new issue is published, click here. The Center for Women at Emory benefits our university and community constituencies by promoting gender equity and inclusion, developing women leaders, and providing education on gender issues. The Center brings people together to share information, ideas, and resources as we work toward positive individual, institutional, and global transformation. |
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This February I was privileged to hear Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hitchens, and Deepa Mehta speak at an Emory symposium titled “The Only Subject Is Love.” Emory English Professor Deepika Bahri noted that the event’s title came from a February 1999 essay by Rushdie, in which he wrote, “Love feels more and more like only subject.” I suspect that this may be true, and in fact we have chosen “love” as the subject of this issue of Women’s News and Narratives. But working on this issue has highlighted for me how difficult it is to speak and write about love, and to convince others to do so. At the Emory symposium, I was struck by how the conversation kept stubbornly returning to hate rather than love, as if hate were so much more interesting that the speakers could not be torn away from it. Why is love so often hard to express without feeling vulnerable, stereotypical, unprofessional, silly? 