Women and Media

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Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir

Marianne Schnall | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Isabel Allende, Women, Cambodia, Loung Ung, Media, Women and Media, Feminism, Omega Institute, Darfur, Living News

At an upcoming Women & Courage conference Isabel Allende and Loung Ung will demonstrate that the most direct and powerful way to comprehend human suffering is through compelling, first-hand accounts.

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Russert's Legacy: A Woman Meeting the Press?

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary, Politics, Obama, Diversity of Pundits, Russert, Diversity, Gender, Meet the Press, Women and Media, Women and Politics, Meet the Press Replacement, John Edwards Meet the Press, Media News

Visibility is viability, and wouldn't it be great to have Meet the Press, the most prestigious and hard hitting show on the Sunday circuit, feature a woman host?

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The Over-Exposure of Danica Patrick

Dave Zirin | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Maxim Magazine, Danica Patrick, Sexism, Women, Danica Patrick Swimsuit Photos, Danica Patrick Exposed, Women and Media, Danica Patrick Swimsuit, Entertainment News

Danica Patrick has revived a debate as old as Sonia Henie skating figure eights at the 1926 Olympics: Does sex sell -- or perhaps more aptly phrased, does sexism sell -- women's sports?

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Sex and The City Jumps the Shark

Thelma Adams | Posted 05.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Women and Politics, U.S. Economy, Sex and the City: The Movie, Women and Media, Hillary Clinton 2008, Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment News

Call Sea World: Sex and the City has jumped the shark. Since the HBO series exited with tears and orgasms in 2004, we've all moved on even if Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte haven't.

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Who Wears the Pants in This Media Outlet?

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Women and Media, Feminist, Fox News Pantsuits, Fox News Wear the Pants, Fox News, Fox, Pants, Media, Feminism, Journalism, Ainsley Earhardt, Media News

Is a FoxNews anchor's implication that being feminine -- being a female -- means not wearing "the pants"?

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HuffPo Charity Chain: Liberty and Media Justice for All

Gloria Feldt | Posted 12.30.2007 | Media

Read More: Women and Politics, Women, Hillary Clinton, Women and Media, Media News

The opposite of patriarchy is not matriarchy, but democracy. And a media that leaves women out of the picture harms everyone, male and female.

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The First Annual Frances Marion Awards

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 12.26.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Persepolis, Juno, Women and Media, Frances Marion, Movies, Women in Film, Hollywood, Entertainment News

These awards are for films and TV by and/or about women that show women for who we all are: flawed, fat, thin, messed up, leaders, hot, sexy...real.

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Does Every Woman Really Count?

Joanne and Rachel Bamberger | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Women and Politics, Female Voters 2008, 2008, Women and Media, Every Woman Counts, LIFETIME Television, Politics News

If Lifetime was really committed to making sure that every woman's vote counts, why are they spending money to have a poll taken on these silly questions?

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Boobs Watching Boobs?

Suzy Shuster | Posted 11.15.2007 | Media

Read More: Playboy Sportcasters, America's Sexiest Sportscaster, Women and Journalism, Playboy, Sexy Sportscaster, Women and Media, Boobs, Sex, Sexism, Breast Implants, Sexist Sportscaster, Boob Job, Feminism, Sportscaster, Lesley Visser, Media News

What I love about the sexiest sportscaster contest is how ridiculous it would be, were it to rank the hottest man-hunks in sports. I can see it now...

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Ms. Magazine: Not Dead Yet

Jessica Wakeman | Posted 11.12.2007 | Media

Read More: Ms. Magazine, Women and Media, Feminist, Gloria Steinem, Ms. Magazine 35th Birthday, Media, Feminism, Bust Magazine, Bitch Magazine, Feminist Majority Foundation, New York Magazine, Media News

What began as a one-time-only insert in New York magazine is now owned by the Feminist Majority Foundation -- and it just turned 35 years old.

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"Gee, I Wonder Why Women Get Raped?"

Leslie Goldman | Posted 11.12.2007 | Living

Read More: Ads, Rape, Women and Media, American Apparel, Sex Sells, Women and Sexuality, Sex, Advertisements, Dov Charney, Objectification of Women, Airbrushing, Sexual Assault, Living News

Does sex sell? Yes. But it's reached the point where subconscious imagery has flown out the door and retailers are relying on the most obvious, explicit images possible.

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Memo About Hillary Clinton: Guys, Get Over It

Gloria Feldt | Posted 11.01.2007 | Politics

Read More: Women, Women and Media, Hillary and Breasts, Women and Politics, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Gender Election, Hillary and Cleavage, Desensitization, Tucker Carlson, Women and Hillary Clinton, Politics News

Leader = man in our collective primordial brains. Yet it has not always been thus, nor will it forever be. It simply falls to Hillary to be the paradigm shifter-in-chief.

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African-American Women in Cinema: Celebrating Ten Years

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 10.31.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Films Directed by Women, African American Women in Cinema, Women Filmmakers, Women and Media, African American Filmmakers, African American Women, Angela Davis, African Americans, Entertainment News

This past summer I bemoaned the paucity of fare on the television screen that reflected my reality. This fall my lot is about to change.

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Tim Meets The Ladies

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.25.2007 | Media

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Meet the Press, Judy Woodruff, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Women and Media, Women on TV Talk Shows, The White House Project, Women and Politics, Kate O'Beirne, Sally Bedell Smith, Stephen Colbert for President, Who's Talking Report, Women Opinion Makers, Tim Russert, Media News

It's not that there are never women on Meet The Press, and it's also not rare for the opening panel to consist homogeneously of one sex. It's just damned rare for that one sex to be female.

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Adding Women Changes Everything at Meet The Press

Marie Wilson | Posted 10.23.2007 | Media

Read More: Women and Politics, Meet the Press, Women and Media, Women on TV Talk Shows, Women Opinion Makers, Who's Talking Report, The White House Project, Media News

Sunday's Meet the Press demonstrated what happens when you add women to the conversation: the discussion becomes anything but standard conventional wisdom-speak.

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