Feminism

A Tribute to Irish Writer Nuala O'Faolain

Robyn Blumner | Posted 06.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writer, Nuala O'Faolain, Literature, Jonathan Franzen, Irish Literature, Memoir, Ireland, Irish, Feminism, Entertainment News

There are a number of modern authors whose facility with the written word and ability to plumb the human experience leave me in awe. But if you asked me whose work touched me most, it would be O'Faolain's.

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Watch Out For 18 Million Pieces of Falling Shattered Glass!

Maegan Carberry | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Bill Clinton's Influence on Hillary's Popularity, Hillary Clinton Family, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Race, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Barack Obama Family, Feminism, Barack Obama, Politics News

The end of Hillary Clinton's candidacy proved that a woman can be just as sneaky and misleading and desperate as a male politician faced with failure and the implosion of a chance at power.

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Does Mother Earth Need Men?

Starre Vartan | Posted 06.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Maureen Dowd, Gingrich Environmentalism, Feminism, Nytimes, Green News

So you've got to be a Kennedy to avoid being a thought of as a girlyman? That's a pretty high bar for the average guy who gives a crap about the natural world.

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3AM For Feminism: Clinton Dead-Enders And The Crisis In The Women's Movement

The New Republic | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton Supporters, Feminism, Clinton Feminism, Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Amy Siskind, a 42-year-old mother of two from Westchester, stood in a Washington, D.C., park on the last day in May, telling a few hundred cheering pe...

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No Sore Winners

Elizabeth Birch | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Women Voters, Inspiration, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Women's Vote, Politics News

Hillary is passionate and a force for good in our time. That is precisely why she will rise from this moment to help forge a unified band of democrats to elect Senator Obama.

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Little Women: A Sad, Sad Story of Stereotypes

Linda Hansen | Posted 06.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Sexism, Feminism, Women's Movement, Concession, Hillary Clinton, Non-Concession Speech, Democratic Nominee, Barack Obama, Hillary Concession, Clinton Concession, Women Hillary, Clinton Obama, Hillary Vapors, Clinton Feminism, Home News

I'm sixty years old. I can't recall a time--ever--that any man who lost a close election demanded "time to adjust to the pain of losing" before conceding. Hillary lost a close one and got a case of the vapors.

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Dreams From His Mother

Linda Keenan | Posted 06.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama's Childhood, Election 2008, Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, Ann Dunham Soetoro, Barack Obama Childhood, Barack Obama Family, Politics News

While Obama's mother's personal choices surely cost her children some measure of stability, she also gave them a powerful model for idealism and feminism in action.

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Hillary's Manhood Problem

Max Zimbert | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Obama, Clinton, Hilary Clinton Feminism, Clinton Concession, Feminism, Home News

Feminism isn't the same now in the wake of the Clintons. Clinton campaign is partly responsible for femininity's evolution from equality between genders, to expectation among genders.

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Cowboys, Prairie Fairies, and Mother Earth: The Political Psychology of Gendering Nature Female

Stephen Ducat | Posted 06.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Women, Gender Stereotypes, Masculinity, Alaska, Hummer, Feminism, Gender, Green News

In the view of conservatives, just as women are there to serve and must know their place, so must the Earth (along with its animals and indigenous inhabitants) be used as a resource that requires no reciprocity.

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Hillary and Mom

Ayelet Waldman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton Women Voters, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Politics News

Because of Hillary and because of the struggle of women like my mother, there will one day, sooner rather than later, be a woman president.

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Pandering To Women Is The Opposite Of Feminist

MOMocrats | Posted 06.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Feminism, John McCain, Garance Franke-Ruta, Campaign, Election 2008, Carly Fiorina, Women's Issues, Momocrats, Blogher, Home News

Sorry, John, simply talking to women, acknowledging their presence and inviting them to listen in on a conference call does not make one a friend of women or a champion of women's issues.

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We Can Stop Ducking the Waves of Misogyny -- Our Democracy Teeters on the Brink.

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic National Committee, Democracy, Zimbabwe, The Republican Party, Senator Obama, Mulan, Dnc, Senator Clinton, Feminism, Politics News

Wake up America. We are so close to losing any semblance of democracy in our country.

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Sex and the City Converts a Skeptic of the Show

Misa Dayson | Posted 06.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sex and the City: The Movie, Money, Sex and the City, Feminism, Anxiety, New York City, Entertainment News

I could never accept that Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte represented the modern New York woman. But I still left Sex and the City: The Movie laughing and entertained.

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It's The Morning After - Hillary, Look In The Mirror

Melissa Hapke | Posted 05.29.2008 | Home

The media is neither sexist nor liberal. Hillary Clinton has been treated the way she has treated her opponents.

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Another 55-Year-Old White Woman for Obama

Freada Kapor Klein | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Women and Politics, Glass Ceiling, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama Race, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Barack Obama, Politics News

We can cast a vote backwards in time, declaring that gender wins the 'who's-more-oppressed' game, or recognize that we missed an opportunity to change institutions 30 years ago.

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What Hillary Should Have Learned from the Suffragists

Ellen Feldman | Posted 05.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Black Suffrage, Bill Clinton, Feminism, Hillary Clinton, Nativism, Woman Suffrage, Fiftteenth Amendment, Politics News

Hillary's inadvisable comments remind me of when suffragists came up against minority men getting rights they thought they were entitled to, they too lost their moral compass.

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Put Some Clothes On!

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Girls, Dance, Education, Stripping, Feminism, Sex, Sexuality, Parenting, Living News

It's time we put our girls back in decent clothing, quit teaching them beauty is everything, and trained them to take responsibility for their bodies.

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Full-Page "Women Count" Ad for Hillary Excludes 28 Million Women

Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Law, Single Men, Children, Single Mothers, Matrimania, Fox, Media, Scholarship, Singles, Federal Funding, Marriage, Singlism, Los Angeles Times, Social Movements, Demographics, Single Women, Voting, Second-Wave Feminism, Abc, Women, Work Life Balance, Political Ads, Feminism, USA Today, Advertising, WomenCount PAC, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Academia, 2008 Presidential Candidates, Higher Education, Widows, Media News

The ad funded by "Women Count" counts every woman -- as long as she is married. I wonder, are single women also invisible to Hillary?

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Jim Webb's Baggage

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Virginia, Vice President, Obama/Clinton, Barack Obama, Senator Jim Webb, George Allen, Sexism, Breaking Politics News, Jim Webb, Feminism, Obama/Webb, Hillary Clinton, James Webb, Women Can't Fight, Offthebus, Home News

In the year of the Clinton candidacy, asking Democrats to vote for a vice presidential candidate who snickered about calling the Naval Academy "a horny woman's dream" is just rubbing salt in the wounds.

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Can a Civil Rights/Feminist Presidential Union Put John Edwards on the Supreme Court?

Harvey Wasserman | Posted 05.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Civil Rights Movement, Democratic Nomination, Ku Klux Klan, Voting Rights, Antonin Scalia, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Civil Rights, Politics News

The word is consensus. It is hard to achieve. But then it's even harder to beat.

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Obama's Sexist Victory in Oregon

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Roe v. Wade, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Barack Obama, Geraldine Ferraro, Sexism, Kentucky Primary, Oregon Primary, Feminists, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Clinton Supporters Count Too, Feminism, Home News

Given Clinton's recent major and undeniable race-inflected victories, the increasing charges of sexism, particularly against Obama himself, are misguided at best. This is no way to advance party unity or women's rights.

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Powerful Video of Ugly Sexist Vilification of Hillary Clinton

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

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Sexism is alive and well in America. One exit poll I saw had almost twice as many voters having trouble voting for a woman for president than voting...

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Is Obama Man Enough To Be a Feminist Too?

Nina Burleigh | Posted 05.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racial Politics, Racism, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Barack Obama, Politics News

It would be nice to see some glimmer of feminism coming out of our presumptive black male candidate. All we can do is hope this new kind of man leader cares enough to speak about it.

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Sex and the City Part 2: Feminism and Backlash

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 05.15.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sex and the City the Movie, Film, Sex and the City Backlash, Feminism, Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City, Entertainment News

Two weeks ago the NY Times discussed the lack of films coming out that have women in significant roles. I find it easy to reconcile my feminism and my love for movies on this one.

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

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Pms, Literary Culture, Hilary Clinton, Entourage, Literary, Fedreal Express, Jeremy Piven, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Barack Obama, Living News

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...

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