Woolfians,<div><br></div><div>My father calls my attention to this, in <a href="http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/movies/admission-starring-tina-fey-directed-by-paul-weitz.html?emc=eta1">the review of "Admission" in today's NYT</a>:</div>
<div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.467em;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Meanwhile, Portia is defeated on the romantic battlefield, losing her unbearably smug English-professor boyfriend (Michael Sheen, looking like a tweedy, housebroken werewolf) to an aggressive and fertile Virginia Woolf scholar (Sonya Walger).</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.467em;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">That the phrase “Virginia Woolf scholar” is used several times as an epithet and a punch line is evidence of the film’s unusually acute interest in academic life and also, perhaps, of its ambivalence about feminism. It turns out that “Admission,” adapted by Karen Croner from a novel by<a href="http://www.jeanhanffkorelitz.com/" style="color:rgb(102,102,153)">Jean Hanff Korelitz</a>, is less concerned with college than with the familiar, endlessly controversial predicament of women who dare to have both careers and children.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:1.5em;line-height:1.467em;font-family:georgia,'times new roman',times,serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Will Portia <a href="http://leanin.org/" style="color:rgb(102,102,153)">lean in?</a> <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/annanorth/why-the-opt-out-story-wont-die" style="color:rgb(102,102,153)">Opt out?</a> <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all/309020/" style="color:rgb(102,102,153)">Have it all?</a> </p>
</div><div><div>Anne</div>-- <br><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif"><a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/faculty/english_faculty/anne_fernald_28537.asp" target="_blank">Anne E. Fernald</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif">Director of Writing/Composition at Lincoln Center,</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif">Associate Professor of <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/index.asp" target="_blank">English</a> and <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/womens_studies" target="_blank">Women's Studies</a></span><br>
<span style="font-family:sans-serif">Fordham University</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif">113 W 60th St.</span><br><span style="font-family:sans-serif">New York NY 10023</span><br><font face="sans-serif"><br>
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