Feminism

Women's Realities: Relationship with Your Mother!

Joyce McFadden | Posted 04.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Edith Wharton, Jane Austen, Controlling Mothers, Relationship With Your Mother, Improving Mother Daughter Relationships, Women's Studies, Mothers and Guilt, How to Talk to Your Daughter, Feminism, Mothers and Daughter, Living News
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 the controlling / judgmental / martyring mother.

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On Sexist Media Coverage of Hillary Clinton

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Hillary Clinton Sexism Media, Hillary Clinton Sexism, Gloria Steinem, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Clinton Gender, Media, Hillary Gender Election, Hillary Clinton Feminism, Feminism, Chris Matthews, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Mainstream Media, Media Coverage of Hillary, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Chris Matthews Sexism, Sexism, Hillary Clinton, Media Sexism, Rudov, Media News
Jessica Wakeman

Clinton's run for the Democratic nomination has been awash with the most dispiriting ridicule I have seen in my (albeit short) lifetime.

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The Chick-Lit Debate

Liza Palmer | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: Chick-Lit, Chick-Lit Debate, Feminism, Living News
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. It was during this interview that we touched on the chick-lit debate.

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Camille Paglia, This One's for You

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

Read More: College Students, Camille Paglia, Feminism, Date Rape, Rape, Living News
Isabel Kaplan

Just because a girl makes a stupid decision doesn't mean that she is responsible if that decision leads to her being raped.

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Who are You Calling a Prostitute?

Jeff Norman | Posted 04.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Erica Jong, Escort, Feminism, Feminist, Randi Rhodes, Eliot Spitzer, Prostitute, Whore, Media News
Jeff Norman

How are defendants like Eliot Spitzer supposed to get a fair trial after they have been repeatedly identified in the media as criminals?

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Open Letter to the Pope: Revolutionize the Creed

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Pope John Paul I, Pope Benedict XVI U.S. Visit, Catholic Church, Feminism, Women and Religion, Jesus, God, Pope Benedict XVI, Living News
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 m...

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Standing up for the Sissy

Shaun Jacob Halper | Posted 04.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liberal, Masculinity, Hillary Clinton, Feminism, Liberals, Barack Obama, Marxism, Elitism, Republicans, Media, Politics News
Shaun Jacob Halper

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

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The Biggest Popularity Contest: The Presidency

Donna Fish | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Popularity Contest, Post Feminism, Feminism, Presidency, Home News
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 Hi...

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Pope Should Start "Spiritual Renewal" with Bisexual God

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Pope John Paul I, Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI U.S. Visit, Jesus, God, Feminism, Pope Benedict XVI, Women and Religion, Living News
Robert S. McElvaine

The Pope must take action to revive a Church in desperate need of revolutionary reform in the area of its largest failings: policies concerning women and sex.

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Men Explain Things to Me

tomdispatch.com | Rebecca Solnit | Posted 04.15.2008 | Living

Read More: Post-Feminism, Women's Movement, Feminism, Sexism, Living News

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 dist...

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The Real Feminist Thing To Do is Acknowledge Hillary's Failures as a Candidate and Move On

Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Pat Schroeder, Elizabeth Edwards, Bitch Is the New Black, 2008 Election and Feminism, 2008 Election and Sexism, Hillary Gender Election, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, Politics News
Morra Aarons-Mele

If feminists want Clinton to be seen as anything other than a token we need to recognize her merits, analyze her campaign's faults, and move on, as if a woman losing were the most normal thing in the world.

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Leading Like a Girl: For Men Only?

Marie Wilson | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Obama, Warren Buffett, Business, Clinton, Gender, Gender and Leadership, Hillary Gender Election, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, Hillary Gender, Politics News
Marie Wilson

While men seem to be incorporating the best of what women already know and do, women themselves are still feeling the pressure to deny traits associated with their gender to get ahead.

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What if You Gave a Revolution and CNN Didn't Come?

Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living

Read More: New Orleans, V-Day, Rape, The Vagina Monologues, Intimate Partner Violence, Sexual Assault, Feminism, Women and Hurricane Katrina, Superdome Superlove, Sexism, Katrina, Eve Ensler, Hurricane Katrina, Women in New Orleans, Domestic Abuse, Eve Ensler SuperLove, Superlove, Living News
Rev. Debra Haffner

This weekend, more than 10,000 women gathered in New Orleans to transform the Superdome into what creator Eve Ensler named "SuperLove."

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month: If We Want to Live Honest Lives, We Have to Tell the Truth

Jenny Block | Posted 04.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Sexually Abused, Open Marriage, Sexuality, Sex, Open: Love, Jenny Block, Incest, Polyamory, Carly Milne, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Rape, Jennifer Baumgardner, Sexography, Feminist, Life in an Open Marriage, Feminism, Living News
Jenny Block

Jennifer Baumgardner has created a t-shirt as part of a multimedia rape awareness project that is causing quite a stir. The graphic is of an open safe in which a small handwritten note sits. "I was raped," the note reads.

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The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are Supporting Obama

BlackAndBrownNews | Posted 04.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Women's Rights, Women, Hillary, Women's Issues, Barack Obama, Senator Clinton, Senator Obama, Hillary Clinton, Young Women, Obama, Feminism, Gender, Home News
BlackAndBrownNews

Young women don't believe the Democratic nominee must have a body like our own. We're looking beyond race and gender toward political vision, leadership style and basic values.

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Women's Realities: Physical Appearance, A Big Bowl of Wrong

Joyce McFadden | Posted 04.10.2008 | Living

Read More: New York Times, Feminism, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Body Image, Beauty, Women's Studies, Physical Appearance, Women and Body Image, Living News
Joyce McFadden

We need for us to recognize the power of our words and behavior over body image. We underestimate the wounds they inflict, and we underplay their capacity to heal.

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Misogyny, Momism and Militarism

Erica Jong | Posted 04.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Women in Politics, Benazir Bhutto, Elton John Hillary Clinton, Elton John Hillary, Elton John, Elton John Benefit, Feminism, Female Politicians, Benazir Bhutto Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Erica Jong

Elton John recently expressed surprise at the misogyny of the American media as it relates to Hillary Clinton. I have been stunned by it -- especially the random physical put-downs that are everywhere.

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Blogging is the New Feminist Act

Joanne Bamberger | Posted 04.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Video, Women Bloggers, Mommy Bloggers, Feminism, Blogging, CBS Evening News, Katie Couric, Blogosphere Class, Blogosphere, Blogosphere Feminism, Blogosphere Demographic, Women Op-Eds, Punditmom, Women on the Op-Ed Page, Female Bloggers, Newspaper Op-Eds, Op-Eds by Women, Politics News
Joanne Bamberger

A blog is a place where women can make our voices heard without anyone asking the question of whether our thoughts and political views are worthy of being made public.

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Hillary's Superdelegates: Weighing Gender Against Momentum

Jennifer Treuting | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Women, Offthebus, Democratic Primary, Clinton, Democratic Nomination Superdelegates, Superdelegates, Obama, Democratic Party, 2008 Election, Feminism, David Shuster, Female Voters Obama, Women Support Clinton, Democratic Nomination Obama, Sen. Maria Cantwell, Ruth Rudy, Christine Pelosi, Superdelegate Investigation, Female Superdelegates, Superdelegates Obama, Women and Clinton, Betty Richards, Nancy Pelosi, Superdelegate Transparency Project, Jackie Stevenson, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Female Support Obama, Obama Superdelegates, Chelsea Clinton, Female Support Clinton, Goodbye to All That, Female Voters Clinton, Feminists Obama, Mary Long, Judith Hope, Obama Feminists, Robin Morgan, Democratic Nomination Clinton, Home News
Jennifer Treuting

Come August, DNC female superdelegates may play the role of king- or queen-maker. Female superdelegates support Clinton over Obama by significant margins and are pledging support at a faster rate than their male counterparts, according to OffTheBus's Superdelegate Investigation.

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What a Bunch of Boobs

Giulia Rozzi | Posted 04.08.2008 | Living

Read More: LA Times, Boobs, Plastic Surgery, Breast Implants, Takepart, Breast Augmentation, Taboo, Feminist, Cleavage, Body Image, Breasts, Boob Job, Feminism, Perfect Body, Living News
Giulia Rozzi

A nightclub in Long Beach has been holding a "Spring Break Breast Augmentation Contest Series" where six finalists go head-to-head in an apple-bobbing battle to receive a free boob job.

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rape, Depression-Era Alabama, Sexists, Sexual Politics, Blue States, North, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Scottsboro, Reacists, South, Red States, Communist Party, Langston Hughes, Hillary Clinton, Prostitute, 2008 Election and Race, 2008 Election and Sexism, Race, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, 2008 Election and Racism, 2008 Election and Feminism, Politics News
Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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Take Back Our Campuses

Ariela M. Migdal | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Misogyny, Victims, Title IX, Rape Surviors, Rape, ACLU Women's Rights Project, Sexual Assault on Campus, Rape Victims, Feminism, Sexual Assault, Athletes and Rape, Sexism, Victim-Blaming, Take Back the Night, Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Rape on Campus, Athletes and Sexual Assault, Politics News
Ariela M. Migdal

Recent months have seen the revival of the old debate over whether sexual assault on campus is a reality or, as one commentator put it, a phony epidemic.

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It's Not Over 'Til the 40-lbs Overweight, Smart Lady Sings

Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Diets, Losing Weight, Body Image, Dieting, Sexism, Smart Women, Fat, Weight Loss, Girls Body Image, Diets Suck, Feminism, Women and Body Image, Living News
Leslie Goldman

How is it that at such a young age, we almost instinctively understand that it's "better" to be small/thin versus big or large?

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Burning Up

Claudine Zap | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Bra Burning, Miss America, Women's History Month, Bras, 1968 Miss America Pageant, Feminist, Feminism, Bra Burner, Living News
Claudine Zap

Women never burned their bras. To understand how this happened, we need to go back to 1968, Atlantic City. To the Miss America Pageant.

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Abstinence is the New Feminism (And Other Things I Learned at Harvard)

Shelby Knox | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, The Education of Shelby Knox, True Love Revolution, Feminist, Abstinence, Chastity, Harvard, Feminism, Sexuality, Sex Education, Double Standard, Abstinence Only, Sex, Sexual Double Standard, Harvard Abstinance, Safe Sex, Abstinence-Only, Teen Pregnancy, Abstinence Education, True Love Waits, Politics News
Shelby Knox

The last thing anyone, male or female, needs on a college campus is a rancorous and harmful debate about the merits of sex or no sex.

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