You won’t learn much about the world of 2012 by reading the science fiction of the 1950s, but you can learn a lot about the 1950s, and that, in the end, is what science fiction (like all fiction) is really good for: it tells us something about ourselves—our hopes, dreams, fears, nightmares.
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Feminism and fashion are not often considered allies. If feminism is thought to be serious, high-minded and ideological, fashion is considered its very opposite: trivial, superficial and subject to the whims of personal taste.
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A few weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, my colleague Andy Carter, who is a Louisiana native and an assistant professor of mathematics education at Roosevelt, spoke at a University town hall meeting on how we could respond to the disaster.
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