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Is Obama Man Enough To Be a Feminist Too?

Nina Burleigh | Posted May 17, 2008 | Politics


Nina Burleigh

In the vitriol over primacy claims to victimhood between females and blacks, we see our two candidates draining the pustulous boil of the once-silent liberal majority. That in the end, is going to be a good thing. It might not get either of them elected against the rich white guy...

Sex and the City Part 2: Feminism and Backlash

Melissa Silverstein | Posted May 15, 2008 | Entertainment


Melissa Silverstein

As the opening of Sex and the City gets closer I've noticed a bunch of articles asking whether you can be a feminist and still like Sex and the City. Give me a break. Of course you can be a feminist and like Sex...

How Fed Ex HIgh Jacked My Feminism And Delivered My Vote To Obama

Stacie Krajchir | Posted May 15, 2008 | Living


Stacie Krajchir

I have been the Fed Ex poster girl for 15 years. I signed up for a Fed Ex account before I ever bought my first laptop or even my first car. Fed Ex is more valuable than my refrigerator and maybe even my dog. Fed Ex has always there for...

Ignoble Hillary

Caryl Rivers | Posted May 14, 2008 | Politics


Caryl Rivers

Does anyone wonder why women who support Hillary Clinton for president get (excuse the vernacular) PO'd at some of our fellow Democrats?

It's because very time we turn around, someone is dissing our candidate in ways that infuriate us. He (or she) is using sexist, insulting language about the first...

Female Sexuality: The Bermuda Triangle of Mothers and Daughters

Joyce McFadden | Posted May 14, 2008 | Living


Joyce McFadden

Grown daughters yearn to know how their mothers' sexuality informed them as women when they were at the most important crossroads of their lives. They want to know these things because they want to understand their mothers as women, and let that understanding flow over how they see themselves in...

Why Hillary Lost My Daughter and Me

Mona Gable | Posted May 13, 2008 | Politics


Mona Gable

This morning I asked my 15-year-old daughter what she didn't like about Hillary Clinton.

"I mean at the beginning, before she started going negative and attacking Barack Obama," I said, trying to rewind history.

My daughter was sitting at the kitchen table, where thousands of impassioned conversations in...

CON GAMES: Real American Values

Michael Conniff | Posted May 13, 2008 |


Michael Conniff

For far too long, conservatives have made political hay with the notion that they are the party of ideas and the party of values -- even as they've held a far too timid opposition at bay for having neither.

Enough, already.

The free ride is over: conservatives have not had...

Revenge of the Wimp Factor: The Ironies of Proving Manhood in the Democratic Primary

Stephen Ducat | Posted May 12, 2008 | Politics


Stephen Ducat

Hi, I'm Hillary Clinton. But tonight, in honor of the WWE, you can call me Hill-Rod. This election is starting to feel a lot like "King of the Ring." The only difference? The last man standing may just be a woman. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton, from her opening monologue prior...

Hillary Clinton's Legacy

Bob Ostertag | Posted May 10, 2008 | Politics


Bob Ostertag

Two months ago I wrote about the emerging parallels between the bitterness of the current Democratic primary and the split between early white women's rights activists and abolitionists after the Civil War. With the campaign of Hillary Clinton sputtering to its final end, it is appropriate to revisit these issue...

A Flawed Pioneer, Hillary Still Represents Change

Denise Clapsaddle | Posted April 29, 2008 | Off The Bus


Denise Clapsaddle

I recently paid on overdue visit to a professor from the seminary where I received my Master of Divinity degree. She's a woman in her seventies, an ordained pastor and a retired professor of Christian Education. After the usual chit-chat about family life, she asked me if I had been...

Women's Realities: Relationship with Your Mother!

Joyce McFadden | Posted April 28, 2008 | Living


Joyce McFadden


Since the Relationship with Your Mother questionnaire draws such rich responses, this will be the first in a few posts teasing out some of its thicker themes, beginning with what women aged 20-88 referred to as the controlling/judgmental/martyring mother.

Here's a fairly benign sample...

On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

Jessica Wakeman | Posted April 27, 2008 | Media


Jessica Wakeman

Espousing feminist viewpoints is so often really not cool -- in fact, feminists even have our own joke about how humorless we are:

JOKE: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?
PUNCHLINE: That's not funny.

(And that's the clean punchline.)

Whether they call themselves a...

The Chick-Lit Debate

Liza Palmer | Posted April 23, 2008 | Living


Liza Palmer

Recently, I had the pleasure of interviewing fellow author, Megan Crane, on the release of her fourth book, Names My Sisters Call Me. You can read the full transcript of the interview on Megan's website (www.megancrane.com).

It was during this interview that we touched on the chick-lit debate....

Camille Paglia, This One's for You

Isabel Kaplan | Posted April 23, 2008 | Living


Isabel Kaplan

It's not that often that I feel absolutely infuriated during English class.

But this semester, at my all-girls school, I'm taking an elective entitled "Gender and Sexuality." Last night, our homework was to read about date rape from the point of view of Paglia.

My mother teaches...

Who are You Calling a Prostitute?

Jeff Norman | Posted April 18, 2008 | Media


Jeff Norman

The same people who excoriated Randi Rhodes for merely opining two prominent Democrats are political whores, have nothing to say about virtually the entire media calling innocent women hookers, even though the accused have neither confessed to nor been convicted of prostitution. Rather than condemning this real misogyny, many "progressives"...

Open Letter to the Pope: Revolutionize the Creed

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted April 18, 2008 | Living


Robert S. McElvaine

Dear Pope Benedict XVI:

As an American Catholic, I want to take the opportunity of your visit to our country to call upon you to reverse some of the mistakes of the distant past that have made the Church a major force in subordinating women and in devaluing the very...

Standing up for the Sissy

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted April 17, 2008 | Politics


Shaun Jacob Halper

If Hillary's candidacy runs its course, feminists and Hillary supporters must continue battling misogyny, despite their former loyalties, by rallying to defend Obama's cause.

Those still in denial about the pervasive presence of sexism and misogyny in the 2008 primary will find Amanda Fortini's "Feminist Reawakening" in New York...

The Biggest Popularity Contest: The Presidency

Donna Fish | Posted April 16, 2008 |


Donna Fish

http://nymag.com/news/features/46011/

This article recently published in New York Magazine called The Feminist Reawakening is all of course, about Hillary and the Hillary bashing that has been going on. The anti-feminism, feminism, new feminism whatever it is that is going on at present with a woman in the race for President....

Pope Should Start "Spiritual Renewal" with Bisexual God

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted April 15, 2008 | Living


Robert S. McElvaine

On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI asked the crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square to pray that his first visit to the United States as pontiff this week would "be a time of spiritual renewal for all Americans." Surely spiritual renewal would be beneficial to all of us -- not least...

Men Explain Things to Me

tomdispatch.com   |  Rebecca Solnit   |   April 15, 2008 04:30 PM


I still don't know why Sallie and I bothered to go to that party in the forest slope above Aspen. The people were all older than us and dull in a distinguished way, old enough that we, at forty-ish, passed...
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