A dull grey walk on Main Street. A few changes since the last death march. The community arts studios at 216 East 28th have moved to Commercial Drive, but Le' Gent Antiques is still at the corner.
The YWCA Thrift Shop continues to do good business. The record bin out front had just been reloaded. Stared awhile at the Sheena Easton album. Shay Semple's early portraits came to mind.
The highlight find was a 15th anniversary re-issue of Lila Abu-Lughod's Writing Women's Worlds (1993, 2008). Price: $1. I still have the first printing ($19.99).
Here is a passage from the Introduction:
"...the first lesson of feminist analysis from Simone de Beauvoir on: relations -- or, more accurately, constructions -- of self and other are rarely innocent of power. To be feminist entails being sensitive to domination; for the ethnographer that means being sensitive to domination in the society being described and in the relationship between the writer (and readers) and the people being written about." (5)
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