Constrained Bliss Point » feminism http://www.constrainedblisspoint.com where the social welfare function meets the grand utility possibilities frontier Fri, 29 Oct 2010 19:31:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Accidental feminism http://www.constrainedblisspoint.com/2009/07/accidental-feminism/ http://www.constrainedblisspoint.com/2009/07/accidental-feminism/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:24:30 +0000 ftobia http://www.constrainedblisspoint.com/?p=220 My DC housing search is rapidly coming to a close. I found a room in a row house on Riggs Place near DuPont Circle, and I’m in the process of making things official. It’s a quick walk to the DuPont metro station, and a similarly quick walk to the GUTS stop. My recent visits to the District have convinced me that DuPont is the place to be, and I’m pretty happy having found a reasonably-priced room.

The coolest part, though, is my landlord. Turns out she’s Jo Freeman, the well-known feminist, scholar, author, political scientist, and attorney — though I admit she was not well-known to me until I did some Googling. Judging from her Wikipedia article she has a pretty incredible past.

Random awesome people amaze me. I kind of want to read her books now: “At Berkeley in the Sixties: Education of an Activist, 1961-1965″ looks  particularly interesting. I’m going to consider her a fringe benefit of living in DC.

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