Womens Liberation

Too Many Shades of Grey

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Katie Roiphe, 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight, Girls, Feminism, Sexuality, Women's Liberation, Lena Dunham, Women News
Elizabeth Debold

Why, when the women's movement aimed to liberate us from being sexually objectified and degraded, are so many women objectifying and degrading themselves?

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Why Are So Many Women Living Alone

The New Yorker | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Living Alone, Single Life, Solitary Life, Going Solo, Women Living Alone, Solitude, Women's Liberation, Women News

As reliably as autumn brings Orion to the night sky, spring each year sends a curious constellation to the multiplex: a minor cluster of romantic come...

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What About 'Women Making History Month'?

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Sandra Fluke, Women's History Month, Women, Rosa Parks, International Women's Day, Feminist, Women's Liberation, Women News
Elizabeth Debold

What if we re-named March "Women Making History Month"? Because this month in 2012, we certainly have some history-making to do.

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The 2nd Worst Question To Ask A Single Woman

Melanie Notkin | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Women, The Truth About Childless Women, Career Man, Childlessness, Childless, Feminist, Employment, Journal of Population Health, Fertility, Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Canada, Childless Women, Ivf, Feminism, Oprah Winfrey, Career, Career Women, Job, Single, Careers, Feminists, Women's Liberation, Women News
Melanie Notkin

When a woman is over age 30, single and childless, people want to know why. Just about everyone is just dying to know: What is she waiting for?

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Up With Stereotypes! Is Defining a Real Man Today Really Politically Incorrect?

Janet Carlson | Posted 01.09.2012

Read More: Television, Gender Stereotypes, Stereotypes, Gender Roles, Relationships, Public Broadcasting System, Racial Disparities, Masculinity, Feminism, Women's Liberation, Julianna Margulies, Stereotypes in America, Culture News
Janet Carlson

At pivotal times, stereotypes serve as just the platform we need -- something solid and obvious against which to rebel. Lucille Ball's antics on I Love Lucy were that funny because they were so not the proper behavior of a proper housewife in the 1950s.

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Are Lazy Husbands On The Rise?

Christelyn Karazin | Posted 01.05.2012

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Marriage, Feminism and Marriage, Women's Liberation and Marriage, Feminization of Men, Men and Marriage, Women's Liberation, Weddings News
Christelyn Karazin

While we're kicking arse and taking names, an increasing number of men have devolved into children who whine and play video games all day.

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Men In The Post-Women's-Lib World: Should We Give Them A How-To Guide?

Janet Carlson | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Men's Lib, Feminism, Women's Liberation, Men Gender Roles, Women's Rights, Men Women's Lib, Men's Place, Gender Roles Men, Post-Feminism Men, Women's Lib Men, Feminism Men, Post-Women's-Lib Men, Healthy Living News
Janet Carlson

Nobody rewrote the user's manual for men. And God knows, men rely on the manual. So how were men to know how to behave vis-à-vis women in the new order?

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'The Female Eunuch'

guardian.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch, Green Female Eunuch, Women's Liberation, Female Eunuch, Books News

I spotted a worn copy of "The Female Eunuch" on my mother's shelf in 1999, and something about the savage cover, showing a hollow female torso with ha...

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The Women's Deliberation Movement

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abigail Adams, 19th-Amendment, Sewell-Belmont House and Museum, H. J. Res 61, Carolyn Maloney, Equal Rights Amendment, 19th Amendment, Women's Equality, Judy Biggert, National Women's Party, Mount Holyoke College, Equal-Rights-Amendment, Sojourner Truth, 1848 Women's Congress, Lucretia Mott, 28th Amendment, Era, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Adams, Women's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Sewell-Belmont House, Alice Paul, Women's Liberation, Politics News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

In this era, we can no longer afford for deliberation, defined as "leisureliness of movement or action; slowness" to define us as women.

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Weekly Pulse: The Pill at 50 and Oklahoma's Extreme Ultrasound Law

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Merrick Garland, The American Prospect, Women's Media Center, RH Reality Check, Reproductive Rights, Elena Kagan, The Progressive, Pro-Life, Diane Wood, Justice John Paul Stevens, Birth Control Pill, Reproductive Freedom, Tropical Diseases, Birth Control, The Pill, Fda, Reproductive Health, Wellpoint, Anti-Choice, Talking Points Memo, Pro-Choice, Women's Liberation, Center for Reproductive Rights, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to...

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The Liberation of Women: Another Failed Dream of Cuba's Revolution

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuban Revolution, Women's Rights, Cuba, Women's Liberation, World News
Yoani Sanchez

Fifty years after the start of a social process that was to reform all of Cuban society, women are still waiting their turn on the crowded agenda of necessary changes.

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Our Daughters, Ourselves

Lynn Povich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Sex Discrimination, Newsweek, Women in Business, Gender Discrimination, Equal Opportunity, Women's Rights, Women in Media and News, Women in Media, Feminism, Journalism, Women's Liberation, New York News
Lynn Povich

On March 16, 1970, Newsweek published a cover story on the women's movement called "Women in Revolt." That same morning, 46 female Newsweek staffers announced that we, too, were in revolt.

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Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: 1960s, Bill Clinton, Barry Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Led Zeppelin, Generation X, Iraq, Cadillac, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Museum, Janis Joplin, Gay Rights, Times Herald-Record, The Atlantic, Jimmy Carter, Woodstock, Exurbs, Jimi Hendrix, Bethel, Women's Liberation, Milennials, Taking Woodstock, Healthy Living News
Nathan Hegedus

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

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Vatican: Washing Machine More Liberating Than The Pill

The Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vatican and Women's Liberation, Washing Machine, Vatican on Women's Lib, Washing Machine Women's Liberation, Women's Liberation, World News

As International Women's Day is celebrated, the Vatican had a novel message for the women of the world: give thanks for the washing machine. This humb...

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Better Fathers: Courtesy of the Sexual Revolution

Cristina Page | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Family Man, Sex, Fathers, Contraception, Religious Right, Pro-Choice, Father's Day, Women's Liberation, Family Values, Politics News
Cristina Page

Little attention has been paid to the impact that women's liberation has had on men -- Gen X dads spend significantly more time with their children than baby-boomer fathers.

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Where Have All The Gentleman Gone?

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Sexuality, Pornography, Marriage, Infidelity, Women, Women's Rights, Dr. Laura Schlesinger, Marital Issues, Academy Awards, Women's Health, Elizabeth Edwards, University College Dublin, Silla Ward Spitzer, Eliot Sptizer, Women's Liberation, Culture, Style News
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Nowhere in the Western world are we raising a generation of men who pride themselves on their restraint and respect toward women. It's a man's world. Women just live in it.

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