

	Catch Gina's Blog! Gina is now contributing to the The Chronicle of Higher Education's Brainstorm blog. Read her latest posts here.
	In Bookstores Now! BABES IN BOYLAND by Gina Barreca *A Personal History of Co-Education in the Ivy Leagues* Take a look. January 2008 update! Babes has just appeared in the comic strip Sylvia. See it here
Check this out. I'M WITH STUPID by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Gene Weingarten and Gina Barreca One man. One woman. 10,000 years of misunderstanding between the sexes cleared right up. Get a preview.

We have to invent scripts for women where you don't have to go off a cliff at the end after you've done something interesting and when you're sexually active. You know the minute somebody is sexually active and interesting in movies, she's going to die.

To see the way wit functions for all of us--men and women alike--is to see a map of our culture: to focus on things we've seen but not necessarily processed or analyzed; explaining what we've sensed but not yet bothered to define. Humor may have been ignored or challenged, but it has always been a secretly potent, delightfully dangerous, wonderfully seductive and, most importantly, powerful way to make a statement, to tell our stories, to make sure everyone's voice is heard.

~Gina Barreca, Who's Laughing Now?

Another of Gina's fabulous essays appears in the Winter 2008 edition of The Common Review. Read Color That Palate Dorian Gray! (pdf) now.

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