This week, the Notre Dame mother has been all over the headlines. And never you worry, we will discuss Maryann White’s letter to the editor of Notre Dame’s The Observer – Amy will talk about that next week. (For what it’s worth, my favorite response so far has been from Washington Post columnist Monica Hesse, who addressed the backlash by saying: “This anger [toward Maryann] is about bad patterns that are so entrenched that you, a woman yourself, are trying to address them in the only broken, feeble way you can imagine — by asking younger women to stop having visible butts.”) There are two other stories about dress codes that surfaced this week, which received significantly less press attention but which typify the ongoing conversation about female bodies in schools.
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