Rebecca Traister

Ending the SlutWars

Shira Tarrant | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Jackson Katz, Feminism, Cointelpro, Slutwalk, Keli Goff, Rebecca Traister, Nancy Schwartzman, Crunk Feminist Collective, Slut Shaming, Rape, Jaclyn Friedman, Start by Believing, Kimberly Inez McGuire, Women News
Shira Tarrant

It's time to change our culture so that we would never dream of asking, "What was the victim wearing?" It is time that we hold rapists and assaulters accountable because the question is never what was she wearing but why is he raping?

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It's Not About the V; Let's Hail the Feminine

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 09.25.2011

Read More: Women, Worshiping the Feminine, Differences as Strengths, The Feminine Aspect, Summers Eve, Slutwalks, Rebecca Traister, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

All of the hullaballoo about Summers Eve's latest ad campaign (you know, the one that hails the "V"? Ironic, when you consider that the product for wh...

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WATCH: Rebecca Traister And Nora Ephron Talk Women In Politics

Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Women in Politics, Women Politicians, Big Girls Don't Cry, Women in Political Office, Nora Ephron, Female Politicians, Rebecca Traister, Video, Women News

With a presidential election year on the horizon, and the last election still vivid in our minds, how women fair in politics is always a ripe topic fo...

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Jason Linkins

Rebecca Traister: Giffords 'Represents Much That Is Revolutionary And Hopeful' In Politics

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gabrielle Giffords, Eat the Press, Gabrielle Giffords Shooting, Rebecca Traister, Arizona Shooting, Media News

Rebecca Traister, author of Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women, says that while she was out on her book tour...

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Brilliant New Book About Gender and 2008 Election

AJ Rossmiller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Feminism, 2008 Election, Books, Rebecca Traister, Sarah Palin, Keith Olbermann, Politics News
AJ Rossmiller

It is increasingly easy for political observers to maintain constant forward movement, scarcely looking back, rarely pausing to process--much less tho...

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How Open Salon's User-Generated Content is Changing the World of Writing

Caroline Hagood | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Articles, Camille Paglia, Fiction, Rebecca Traister, Garrison Keillor, Open Salon, User Generated Content, Journalism, Poetry, Healthy Living News
Caroline Hagood

Open Salon is an endlessly fascinating place; like the Internet, its very structure teaches you how to interact with it, but unlike the Internet, that structure is essentially altruistic. It forces its participants to be supportive of one another.

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Going Rouge Skewers Palin

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Republican Gomorrah, Robert Reich, Sarah Palin Going Rogue, McCain Palin, Rebecca Traister, Sarah Palin, Gloria Steinem, Sarah Palin Vice President, Akmuckraker, Shannyn Moore, Going Rogue, Max Blumenthal, Books News
Geoffrey Dunn

One thing is certain: You will read far more about the real Sarah Palin in Going Rouge than you ever will in her own memoirs, being published by (who else?) Rupert Murdoch.

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Women in the Media: A Night of Recognition

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salon.com, LGBT Issues, Women's Issues, Media New Media, Lynn Nottage, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, Rebecca Traister, Gloria Steinem, Women in Journalism, Liberia, Women in Media and News, Women's Media Center, 2008 Election, Pam Spaulding, Ruined, Dr. George Tiller, Feminsim, Gina Reticker, Rachel Maddow, Abigail Disney, Judy Grahm, Christiane Amanpour, Candy Crowley, Bonnie Erbe, Hillary Clinton, Tina Fey, Bill O'Reilly, Helene Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, Joan Walsh, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

The Women's Media Center was packed with women active in old and new media, advocacy, and culture.

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The Myth of Hillary Clinton and the Angry White Women

Lester Feder | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Salon.com, Walter Shapiro, John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Primary, Polling, Barack Obama, Rebecca Traister, Hillary Gender Election, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, Politics News
Lester Feder

Once we stop viewing the Democratic contest through the identity-politics lens, former Clinton-supporters favoring McCain over Obama isn't all that surprising.

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