Was Mary a Template for Today's Feminism?
The mother of Jesus became an icon a long time ago, and in many ways her icon is more powerful and haunting inside our psyche than the icon of her famed son.
The mother of Jesus became an icon a long time ago, and in many ways her icon is more powerful and haunting inside our psyche than the icon of her famed son.
Dr. Belisa Vranich | Posted 11.03.2009 | Entertainment
I knew it. Any chick capable of dealing with a tornado, juggling three men with lots of emotional baggage, a dog-lover and brave enough to confront wi...
Katherine Spillar | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business
Will the U.S. Congress listen to the echoes of Brooksley Born's voice when they tackle forthcoming legislation to better regulate the over-the-counter derivatives market?
Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
The women in When Everything Changed are gutsy, goal-setting, game-changing, God-chatting, family-loving individuals who share a belief in Change - and an enduring, if irrational love of sexy shoes.
Therese Borchard | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Women are much more powerful than they were forty years ago. But they are stressed, anxious, and not as happy. Why?
Michael Kimmel | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
A fleet of 35 pink taxis recently debuted in Puebla, Mexico, a colonial city halfway between Mexico City and Veracruz. These taxis are driven only by women, and they do not stop for male passengers.
Kate Kelly | Posted 10.27.2009 | Politics
Steinem was humble, displayed a wonderful sense of humor, and showed a strong dedication to continuing her work for social change. "Hope is a form of planning," she said.
Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.24.2009 | Entertainment
I hardly knew anything about Earhart before seeing Amelia -- and I didn't feel like I knew much more when I left.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business
The reality is that, even if you are a female executive at Goldman Sachs, you will never be part of the "boys' club" -- and guess what, it's still a boys' club.
Lisa Solod Warren | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
Our children and our husbands or partners might benefit from reading the report. Maybe then, they would take us seriously when we say we just can't handle any more on our plate right now.
Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.21.2009 | Entertainment
The Good Wife is closer than any Oprah or Barbara Walters special will ever be to bringing this viewer to understanding why Hilda Spitzer, Elizabeth Edwards (until recently), and Hilary Clinton stood by their men.
wowOwow | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
With the release of When Everything Changed, Gail Collins's new book, Lesley and Gail recount the amazing revolution of American women from 1960 to th...
W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
As we probe, we begin to find answers to Freud's age-old question: What do women want? It is not, as Freud suspected, exactly what men want. Beneath their achievement-oriented lives, most women crave passion, beauty, connection, and a sense of the sacred.
BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living
The issue of sexual harassment is fraught with ambiguity. It's emotionally loaded because it is so personal and intense - involving both sex and power.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media
While reading Barbara Berg's Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining our Future, I felt energized and eager to be a part of this third wave of feminism.
Stephen Bayley | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books
Greer, who regards the bra as "ludicrous", has had her polemic reflexes tickled by my new book Woman as Design, devoting an entire page of splenetic "comment" in London's Guardian.
Ari Solomon | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
I'm a proud feminist, as anyone who cares about the plight of women on our planet should be. In many parts of the world, women are still treated as pr...
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
The huge societal shift brought about by women's move into the workforce has only begun to play out, and its consequences are truly complex. So when telling this story, we should be careful not to isolate our focus to just women.
Amy Sewell | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics
My interest in politics was first sparked by the 2000 election. I decided, at age six, that I wanted to be a news reporter.
Judi Jennings | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
By understanding the history behind Women's Equality Day, we can clarify the interconnectedness of the forces that maintain global systems of oppression by denying human rights, and we can shape new strategies effective in countering those global forces.
Mike Miley | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment
This film sticks to its guns, audience expectations be damned, and delivers to the audience the most devastating depiction of the housewife's confined life in cinema.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 09.24.2009 | Style
Very, very thin women with big breasts do not exist in nature.
Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
SELF takes the focus off her talent by making us focus on what they see as the money shot... a version of Clarkson that doesn't exist.
Stephanie Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
The blond bombshell will be one of 11 conservative women to pose for the 5th annual Great American Conservative Women calendar put out by the Clare Boothe Luce Institute.
Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World
South Africa has a crisis of values in which men are brought up to believe they are entitled to treat women as objects to abuse, hurt, exploit, rape, harass, control and patronize.
Petru Popescu | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living