A lot of people dismiss fashion as frivolous, but Media Studies professor Minh-Ha Pham says it's a great lens through which to study race, gender and class politics. "Fashion and so many other kinds of culture and practices that are traditionally associated with women... are often seen as frivolous," she says, and "that dismissal of fashion is linked to a larger, a broader sexism in our culture."
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Hanna Pylvainen's debut novel "We Sinners" is loosely based on her own history in a fundamentalist Lutheran community.
Greg Critser says that most of the claims of the advocates of organic food have very little science behind them. He thinks chefs should concentrate on creating satisfying food and not saving the world.
Satirist George Saunders has been a Guggenheim Fellow and received a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." For his essay on the dumbing down on American media, he created "Megaphone Guy."
Hendrik Hartog explodes the myth that the 19th century was the golden age of marriage. He tells Jim Fleming that separation, desertion, and bigamy were common long before divorce was legal.
Some people people prefer their medieval adventures up close and personal. Producer Aubrey Ralph takes inside one of those groups.
Comic-book creator Gary Spencer Millidge talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book, "Alan Moore: Storyteller." The book proiles one of the most influential creative forces in the history of comic books.
Guy Dauncey tells Jim Fleming some of the things ordinary people can do in their everyday lives to combat global warming.
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