My First Princess Party
What gets me riled about the whole princess situation is less the feminist dilemma over iffy role models (though feminist I am), and more the concerted sales effort of the princess marketing machine.
What gets me riled about the whole princess situation is less the feminist dilemma over iffy role models (though feminist I am), and more the concerted sales effort of the princess marketing machine.
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.29.2008 | Media
Did outrage over a video game promoting sexist stereotypes about women prompt a reaction from the game's founders?
Linda Hansen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
A smart woman, a real woman, does not take her child along on a trip "too dangerous for the president." To try selling the rest of us that fiction is appalling.
Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living
Why are we instructed to embrace the ger, the stranger, yet we are told to distance ourselves from someone who loves Judaism and lives a Jewish life but happens to be gay?
Louise Sloan | Posted 03.27.2008 | Living
Is lack of a marriage license so bad for kids that any kind of married parents are better than literally any kind of single one?
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
In addition to weight and attitude, the videogame missbimbo.com measures your avatar's IQ. My bimbo gloriasteinem's IQ is 70 -- the commonly accepted benchmark for mental retardation.
Giulia Rozzi | Posted 03.26.2008 | Living
Edited by V-day founder Eve Ensler, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer features pieces from Until the Violence Stops, the international tour that brings the issue of violence against women and girls to the forefront of our consciousness.
Sonia Ossorio | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
Our image of the jet-set call girl is an illusion. The undeniable truth is they aren't the empowered women characterized in movies, music and the American psyche.
Rebecca Walker | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
The suggestion that women are monolithic and asleep and need to "wake up" is part of the problem endemic to Second Wave Feminism.
Sharon Glassman | Posted 03.25.2008 | Living
Another year. Another's Women's History Month. And still no alternative for "Ma'am" - three letters and a squiggle that I loathe beyond measure.
Pamela Paul | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living
There's a lot governments and corporations and individual bosses need to do to fix this maternal profiling mess. But it's time women (and come on, men, too) started getting angry, loudly, about it.
Bob Franken | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Now that we've heard Obama's speech on racial antagonism in America, it's time for the address from Hillary on the division that is even deeper in our country -- the divide over gender.
Amy Tiemann | Posted 03.18.2008 | Living
Motherhood can feel very isolating on an individual level. MomsRising.org allows us to harness the collective power of mothers, along with our allies, to work on unifying issues.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics
Whether it's the wife or the other woman, it's the female sex that suffers most in public sex scandals.
Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.15.2008 | Living
It's "open season for peeping Toms," says an Oklaholma judge. Ew. And I thought these things only happened on the New York City subway system.
Nina Burleigh | Posted 03.15.2008 | Politics
She chose to rent her own flesh, and for that, she has been amply and now publicly rewarded.
Lynda Obst | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Hillary, as strong as she is, wins as a victim. That is the trajectory of her career: I am a victim. Punch. So why are women whining and identifying with being the victim again?
Alyssa Best | Posted 03.13.2008 | Entertainment
On The Return of Jezebel James, I expect that the cultural politics of pregnancy, surrogacy, and motherhood will intersect with witty dialogue, humorous situations, and great entertainment.
Hilary Rosen | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
Samantha, thanks for stepping back. Gerry, thanks for nothing. She is bewilderingly insistent on staying in this fight.
Abigail Jones | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
Our society is so consumed by sex that women remain a form of currency, commodities to be used, bought, and traded by men of power.
Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics
If the Clinton campaign isn't careful, it will set the women's movement back a generation or so. As women, it is not in our best interests to be viewed as victims.
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 03.11.2008 | Media
Appearances will always be a factor in TV news, but picture the most beautiful woman reporter you can -- now, picture her in pants. I'm guessing she still looks beautiful.
The Times | Rosie Millard | Posted 03.10.2008 | Living
After 14 years of matrimony it is beginning to dawn on me that I'm a bad wife. I've done the childbirth thing - very enthusiastically, four times - an...
Erin Kotecki Vest | Posted 03.08.2008 | Media
I don't want the woman who can play the game with the boys, I want the woman who refuses to play the game and blazes her own path.
Lenora M. Lapidus | Posted 03.07.2008 | Politics
Of particular concern is the extraordinary rate of sexual violence against Native American women and female migrant workers, especially domestic workers, and the U.S.'s denial of justice to these women.
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Pamela Paul | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living