Erica Jong

Women vs. Mothers

Hayley Krischer | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Women, Parenting, Alicia Silverstone, Feminism, Eating Placenta, Homebirth, Gina Crosley-Corcoran, Erica Jong, Women Criticizing Women, The Feminist Breeder, Ina May Gaskin, Jessica Valenti, Feministing, Parents News

There's a whole lot of warfare going on over unconventional mothering and much of it is being done by women.

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Women Are Honestly Writing About Sex: It's About Time

Lisa Guest | Posted 04.27.2012

"If you examine sexy heroines in literature you will see they either lose their lives or their children for expressing their sexuality." I can see now why I was so hesitant. I wasn't willing to die just yet.

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Girls Just Wanna Have: HBO's Girls and Mary Harron's Moth Diaries

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: The Moth Diaries, Erica Jong, Sarah Bolger, Mary Harron, Scott Speedman, Rachel Klein, Lily Cole, Sara Gadon, HBO Girls, Lena Dunham, Hbo-Girls-Premiere, Culture News

Despite its engaging wit, Girls' coming of adulthood is more troubling than Mary Harron's The Moth Diaries, a fascinating soft horror movie based on Rachel Klein's novel, to open in theaters next week.

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Let's Talk About Sex

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Girls, The Wall Street Journal, Millenials, Erica Jong, Sexual Revolution, Sex, Hbo, Reproductive Rights, Hanna Rosin, Gloria Steinem, Rick Santorum, New York Times, Frank Bruni, The Daily Beast, Feminism, Lena Dunham, Women News

Women today are raised on empowering messages. From the time we're little, we're told girls can do anything boys can do. This doesn't mean we should do things the way they do.

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Frank Bruni Gets it Right When it Comes to Women and Words

Dorian de Wind | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Women's Sexuality, Women's Issues, Rush Limbaugh, Sex Promiscuity, Insults, Frank Bruni, Erica Jong, Kim Cattrall, Women News

"Despite the best efforts of everyone from Erica Jong to Kim Cattrall, women are still seen through an erotically censorious prism, and promiscuity is still the ultimate putdown."

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Erica Jong's 'Fear Of Flying' Goes Digital

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Fear of Flying Digital, Erica Jong, Fear of Flying, Books, Books News

AP: NEW YORK-- Erica Jong is the latest author to embark on a different kind of digital path. Jong has signed with the electronic publisher Open...

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Our Mothers, Ourselves?

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Molly Jong-Fast, Motherhood, Sugar in My Bowl, Nature or Nurture, Erica Jong, Mothers, Mothers and Daughters, Women News

When it comes to the way we choose to live our lives, how free is our will, really ... and how much has to do with the way mom lived hers?

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Are Young Women Over Sex?

The Huffington Post | Brenna Cammeron | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Erica Jong Sex Passe, Love & Sex, Erica Jong, Erica Jong Sex Is Over, Sexual Liberation, Women and Sex, Young Women Ideas About Sex, Young Women and Sex, Women News

Is sex going out of style? Yes, according to an op-ed from Erica Jong published in the New York Times over the weekend. Jong, author of the 1970's...

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Got Teeth? Proactive Anti-Rape Device or Another Way for Women to Live in Fear?

Jill Di Donato | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Rape Axe, Erica Jong, Violence Against Women, Women's Empowerment, Melinda Gates, Rapist, Rape Prevention, New York News

A year after South African doctor Sonnet Ehlers introduced the Rape-aXe, some interesting questions arise about the "Venus Flytrap" condom, and how it might serve cosmopolitan women in the U.S.

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Should Serious Female Authors Writer About Sex?

salon.com | Drew Grant | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Molly Jong-Fast, Real Women Write About Real Sex, Sugar in My Bowl, Gail Collins, Erica Jong, Sex Writer, Erotic Writing, Ariel Levy, Books News

As soon as I cracked opened Erica Jong's new anthology, "Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex," I was overcome with giddiness....

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Writer Wednesday: Inspiring Writing Quotes From Famous Authors (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: W. Somerset Maugham, Writing Quotes, Authors, Writers, Writer Wednesday, Erica Jong, Samuel Beckett, Truman Capote, William Faulkner, Tom Stoppard, George Eliot, #Writerwednesday, Slidepollajax, Salman Rushdie, #Ww, Books News

The hardest part is to keep going, and every writer knows it. The best have left their words of wisdom to help the rest of us plod along. We loved the...

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Anatomy of Gabrielle Hamilton's Loveless Marriage

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books, Gabrielle Hamilton, Marriage, Blood Bones & Butter, Amy Wallace, Hate, Divorce, Claire Bloom, Erica Jong, Blood, Ann Kashfi, Prune, Chefs, Books News

Nothing in the reviews of Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir about her cooking life, "The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef," prepared me for a book ...

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"It's Like My Heart Has Sciatica": Love And Heartbreak In 6-Word Memoirs (PHOTOS)

Larry Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Six-Word Memoir Project, Valentines Day, Rachel Sklar, Six-Word Memoirs, Slidepollajax, Erica Jong, 6 Word Memoirs, Nora Ephron, Jonathan Ames, Books News

The oft-quoted Tolstoy line "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" seems to hold true in matters of the heart a...

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Parenting through the (very recent) ages

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Ginks, New York Times, Media, Parenting, Erica Jong, Mothers, Lisa Belkin, Fathers, Healthy Living News

What are we going to do with the new Google tool? Consider "parenting." I remember reading a column by the Times' Lisa Belkin last year, in which she...

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Eliot Spitzer and the Madam Co-Star in Client 9

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hank Greenberg, Joe Bruno, Erica Jong, Albert Maysles, Chris Hegedus, Kate Davis, Cecile (CeCe) Suwal, Alex Gibney, Eliot Spitzer, D. A. Pennebaker, Entertainment News

Even as a CNN political talk show host, the specter of scandal haunts Eliot Spitzer. Oscar winning Alex Gibney seized the moment to document the falle...

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Letting Go of The Past: An Author's View

Lev Raphael | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Letting Go, Therapy, Mental Health, Despair, Libraries, Books, Archives, Disappointment, Failure, Authors, Success, Career, Erica Jong, Author Readings, Career Path, Therapists, Salman Rushdie, Author Tours, The Inner Life, Books News

The freeing up of physical space has also freed my mind. I don't find myself dwelling much any more on the things that didn't happen for me in my writing life, the wrong turns ...

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That Steely Dan Moment

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Dorothy Parker, Relationships, Erica Jong, Male Female Relationships, Steely Dan, Chicago News

To guard against future problems, interpersonal communication between men and women should begin with a formal exchange of preferences: top five movies, top five books, top five songs.

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A Report from Women in the World: Stories and Solutions Summit - Part 1

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vital Voices, Leymah Gbowee, Rare, Human Slavery, Goldman Sachs 10, Bank of America, Liberia, Sex Trafficking, Women in the World Conference, Diane Von Furstenberg, Marie Brenner, Diane Sawyer, Frances Townsend, Campbell Brown, Madeleine Albright, Human Trafficking, Luis CdeBaca, 000 Women, Christiane Amanpour, Exxonmobil, The Daily Beast, Denis Mukwege, Rape in the Congo, Sexual Violence, Michelle Obama, Kiran Bedi, Tina Brown, Seven, Conrad Hilton Foundation, Archie Panjabi, Hp, Women in Afghanistand and Pakistan, Fatima Bhutto, Erica Jong, Meryl Streep, Barbara Walters, Lesley Stahl, Julie Taymor, Hillary Clinton, Gayle Lemmon, Rape as a Weapon of War, World News

At the Daily Beast's "Women in the World" conference last weekend the theme repeated and over was that "women's rights may exist on the books and in the law, but not on the street."

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Gloria Steinem's Salon: Honoring Jane Campion

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Susannah Moore, Gloria Steinem, Jane Campion, Meg Wolitzer, Erica Jong, Caryn James, Entertainment News

The talent sipping cocktails at Gloria Steinem's brownstone duplex last Tuesday was through the roof, and evoked the tradition of Gertrude Stein's early 20th century Paris salons

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Do You Live in a Box?

Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Politics, Joan of Arc, God, Group Think, Erica Jong, Sex, Individualism, Thinking Outside the Box, Healthy Living News

I have a persecution complex. I'm afraid of speaking my truth. I don't believe in mainstream. I'm not impressed with fluff or fun or fanfare.

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Nostalgia: Telephone Exchanges in Old New York

Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erica Jong Nostalgia, Erica Jong Telephone Exchanges, Erica Jong, Erica Jong Butterfield 8, History, Nyc History, New York History, New York News

Bring back the old exchanges -- and let's invent some new ones while we're at it. Let's name them after NY writers. GInsberg for the East Village. And WH for the West Village (after Auden).

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Don't Let The Crazy People Win This One

Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Erica Jong Public Option Heath Care, Democrats Public Option, Erica Jong Public Option, Erica Jong Health Care, Democrats Health Care, Erica Jong, Home News

I'm not a diplomat or a politician. I haven't got the patience. But it's clear to me that our country's lack of a public option in health care is bankrupting businesses and families.

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"God Talk" -- Enough Already?

Eberhard Kronhausen and Phyllis Kronhausen | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, The Dalai Lama, Dalai Lama, Atheism, Erica Jong, Secularism, Buddhism, New Atheism Movement, Healthy Living News

Let us not wait for "God" or anybody or anything else to act, while the ball is so obviously in our own court!

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J.U. and I

Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Updike Dies, John Updike, Erica Jong, John Updike Cancer, Fear of Flying, Death, Media News

John Updike was one of the few writers of our age who didn't see writing as an aggressive act that needed to be met with another aggressive act: criticism.

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Love Comes First

Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Passion, Love, Erica Jong, Love Comes First, Fear of Flying, Books, Poetry, Death, Entertainment News

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. The truth is we need poetry -- even as we fight against it.

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