Comments on: Reading Like a Girl http://www.marcellawhitecampbell.com/blog/2008/08/07/reading-like-a-girl/ Wherein the Artist Grappleth with her Craft, Complaineth Overmuch, And Eateth Much of Imported Cheeses, All the While Seeking to Publish Her Works, And The Travails and Such To Which She Be Subjected, etc, etc, as Told to the Author Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:35:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: marcella http://www.marcellawhitecampbell.com/blog/2008/08/07/reading-like-a-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-256 marcella Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:44:08 +0000 http://www.marcellawhitecampbell.com/?p=45#comment-256 Do you know, in '08 my sister and I visited DC and she insisted we view the Hopper exhibit at the National Gallery. At the time, I couldn't see the women for the lighthouses, if that makes sense. Thanks for the heads-up (goes to Google Image Search)! Do you know, in ‘08 my sister and I visited DC and she insisted we view the Hopper exhibit at the National Gallery. At the time, I couldn’t see the women for the lighthouses, if that makes sense. Thanks for the heads-up (goes to Google Image Search)!

]]> By: Brittany http://www.marcellawhitecampbell.com/blog/2008/08/07/reading-like-a-girl/comment-page-1/#comment-254 Brittany Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:52:57 +0000 http://www.marcellawhitecampbell.com/?p=45#comment-254 THIS. I could never say this as eloquently, but I share your defiant spirit. For some reason it reminds me of Edward Hopper's paintings of people waiting for a train, sitting in an audience before the curtain rises, an movie usher napping at her post. I guess what I am trying to get at is that Romance Readers and women's media is rendered invisible, or worthy of scorn. Hopper had us look at those invisible moments, everyday events, forcing us to value them. Maybe that is why Hopper is the favorite of so many women I know. THIS.

I could never say this as eloquently, but I share your defiant spirit. For some reason it reminds me of Edward Hopper’s paintings of people waiting for a train, sitting in an audience before the curtain rises, an movie usher napping at her post. I guess what I am trying to get at is that Romance Readers and women’s media is rendered invisible, or worthy of scorn. Hopper had us look at those invisible moments, everyday events, forcing us to value them. Maybe that is why Hopper is the favorite of so many women I know.

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