Feminism

No Slacks In The Office: Gail Collins And Lesley Stahl Relive the Birth of Feminism

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...

Reclaiming Femininity

W. Hunter Roberts | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living


W. Hunter Roberts

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.

Sexual Harassment: Just The Facts, Ma'am

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.13.2009 | Living


BJ Gallagher

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.

Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future

Joyce McFadden | Posted 10.08.2009 | Media


Joyce McFadden

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.

Sisters, Unhook!

Stephen Bayley | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books


Stephen Bayley

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.

The Feminist's Dilemma

Ari Solomon | Posted 12.01.2009 | Green


Ari Solomon

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...

Women, Men, and Happiness: We're All in Transition

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living


Morra Aarons-Mele

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.

She's Out There! Her Name Is Fiona Lowenstein!

Amy Sewell | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics


Amy Sewell

My interest in politics was first sparked by the 2000 election. I decided, at age six, that I wanted to be a news reporter.

Women's Rights and Human Rights

Judi Jennings | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics


Judi Jennings

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.

Jeanne Dielman Comes to DVD

Mike Miley | Posted 09.25.2009 | Entertainment


Mike Miley

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.

Breast Implants, Yes or No?

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 09.24.2009 | Style


Irene Rubaum-Keller

Very, very thin women with big breasts do not exist in nature.

The SELF You Never Were

Joyce McFadden | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media


Joyce McFadden

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.

Carrie Prejean to Pose for "Political" Calendar

Stephanie Green | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment


Stephanie Green

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.

South African Women Still Second-Class Citizens

Alex Matthews | Posted 09.10.2009 | World


Alex Matthews

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.

Julie & Julia: When the World Writes You Back

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.08.2009 | Entertainment


Karen Dalton-Beninato

No matter what twists we see in Publishing 2.0, a love story running through Julie & Julia is that sometimes, after the solitary act of writing, the world writes you back.

Go Ahead, Let Outrage Start the Much Needed Gender Conversation

Andrea Learned | Posted 09.08.2009 | Business


Andrea Learned

We don't need a fight to the death between men and women to see who is "better." Rather we need to be identifying those qualities women tend to have that make them transformational leaders.

World Breastfeeding Week: Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue

Amie Newman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Living


Amie Newman

Breastfeeding is not simply a "choice" women make. It is a decision women make based on a tremendous variety of social and medical factors.

Woman-Hating and the LA Fitness Massacre: Hate Crimes Against Women

Louise Marie Roth | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics


Louise Marie Roth

This was a hate crime against women. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that Sodini was just a lone psychopath: his hatred of women was based on his sense of masculine entitlement.

Ten Challenges of a Liberated Woman

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living


Elizabeth Debold

While women and men have become social equals by law, we are all still deeply conditioned by ancient survival patterns in which women are subordinate.

"Leftover Christmas Cake" and Other Anti-feminist Expressions

Amanda ReCupido | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living


Amanda ReCupido

Germans must feel they'll never see the light of day again once the wedding band is on -- they refer to it as being "under a bonnet." And a submissive wife? A "cricket on the stove".

Drug War: Brazilian Female Police Commanders On The Rise

Guardian | Posted 08.29.2009 | World


A police helicopter rattles through the skies over Rio, black-clad snipers poised at either side. Below, in the Morro da Mineira shanty town, locals ...

Women in Politics Need Womenomics -- And Much, Much More

Sarah Granger | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living


Sarah Granger

I recently read the book Womenomics, which focuses on how women can take charge in the workplace and negotiate for intangibles that we need to balance our busy lives.

Wailing Over Veiling

Hisham Wyne | Posted 08.25.2009 | World


Hisham Wyne

My personal likes and dislikes do not offer a sufficient raison de'etre to unveil anyone. And neither do yours.

Women Connecting Across the Generational Divide: From Gloria Steinem to Courtney Martin

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.22.2009 | Living


Marianne Schnall

This Omega Institute conference sets out to build bridges across generations that inspire and empower women to change the world.

Gloria Steinem: The Iconic Feminist Speaks to Our Generation

Julie Zeilinger | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living


Julie Zeilinger

In the end, feminism isn't about angry girls burning their bras, or about getting back at men: it's about redefining the way we see ourselves and the way we treat ourselves.