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Another Thoughtful Take on “Leaning In,” This One By bell hooks, and Called “Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In”
Read it here at The Feminist Wire. Below is an excerpt: Sandberg’s definition of feminism begins and ends with the notion that it’s all about gender equality within the existing social system. From this perspective, the structures of imperialist white … Continue reading
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Read Susan Faludi on “Facebook Feminism”
Unlike so many trite reviews of the “Lean In” phenomenon, Faludi brilliantly contextualizes her critique. Available at The Baffler, excerpt below: … In 1834, America’s first industrial wage earners, the “mill girls” of Lowell, Massachusetts, embarked on their own campaign … Continue reading
Posted in Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Technology
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Two New Female Lego Minifigures Have Been Released: Let’s Call Them “Progress” and “Backlash.”
The first is a female scientist: According to this site, “This latest minifig is significant because she’s the first female Lego scientist. For reasons unknown most Lego STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) minifigs are male.” The second Series 11 … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Underrepresentation of Women
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What’s Feminism Got to Do with It? “The Super Woman Myth”
Once again there is an article blaming feminism for “raising the bar too high” and making it impossible for real women to “have it all. “The Super Woman Myth: Where Feminism Went Wrong (Unfortunately this article is behind a pay … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Activism, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Economics, Feminism and Families, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and the Workplace
Tagged The SUperwoman Myth
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OK! Magazine Apologizes For Story, Cover, About Duchess of Cambridge’s Post-Partum “Weight Loss Regime”
OK! magazine has apologized for a story and cover (which OK! calls “the Royal Baby special, and sells for one pound), discussing Princess Catherine’s “weight loss regime” which it published just before she gave birth to an eight pound six … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Politics, If you're a woman
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Motherlode
Came across this the other day in the New York Times, “Generic Pain Relievers Work, So Why Do I Give My Kids Brand Names?” Why indeed? Could it possibly be the influence of non-stop advertising intended to convey the vague … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families, Feminism and Medicine, Feminism and the Workplace
Tagged generic drugs vs brands, Motherlode column, Oversold
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Women’s work
I heard from some who thought I was a bit too harsh in my criticism of the New York Times article Coveting Not a Corner Office, but Time at Home. I admit, I was irked. I was more than irked. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families, Feminism and the Workplace, Sexism in the Media
Tagged careers, families, flextime, Sheryl Sandberg, The New York Times, women and housework, women in the workplace
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More push back on Sheryl Sandberg
In today’s New York Times we are treated to yet another installment of the cultural push back to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” in an article entitled “Coveting Not a Corner Office, but Time at Home.” The article is really gag-making … Continue reading
Media Literacy: About Face
I have my doubts about how effective media literacy efforts alone can be at combating gender stereotypes. It seems like an uphill battle in the current environment. But About-Face is one organization that is trying to do something. I blogged … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and the Environment, Feminist Blogs Of Interest
Tagged About-Face, body images, gender sterotypes, media literacy, Oversold
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Women in the Texas Legislature: Lessons in Individual Actions that Serve to Empower Movements
Thank you to Senator Wendy R. Davis and to Senator Leticia Van de Putte for, among other things, standing up for equality. It may have only been a battle and not a war, but Senator Davis’ filibuster of the Texas … Continue reading
Defining Pregnancy In Law
Khiara M. Bridges, Boston University School of Law, has published When Pregnancy Is an Injury: Rape, Law and Culture, at 65 Stanford Law Review 457 (2013). Here is the abstract. This Article examines criminal statutes that grade more … Continue reading
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Of Husband Hunting and Diamond Mines
There has been a tremendous dust-up in response to Susan Patton’s (a member of the Princeton class of 1977) letter to the Daily Princetonian. In her letter, Patton exhorts Princeton women to begin the task of husband hunting in their … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families, Race and Racism, Socioeconomic Class
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All the “Ladies” in the House? Women, Put Your Hands Up (Gloves Off)
Author Ann Friedman writes in the New Republic “Hey ‘Ladies’: The Unlikely Revival of a Fusty Old Label.” Here is an excerpt: With its slippery meaning—associations range from grandma’s lavender-scented powder to the raunchiest of rap lyrics—it encapsulates the fundamental … Continue reading
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Most Women Don’t Want Power and Status, She Says
Kay S. Hymowitz of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research writes in the City Journal about “The Plight of the Alpha Female.” Here’s her explanation for the lack of gender parity in the highest ranks of business, government, academia: [W]omen … Continue reading
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There is something flawed about this pitch for mammography custom
Via.
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A handy guide for discerning the gender of a toy!
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Today Frank Bruni Sounds Like a Feminist!
Seriously, check out his column The Siren and The Spook (below is an excerpt): … Broadwell has just 13 percent body fat, according to a recent measurement. Did you know that? Did you need to? It came up nonetheless. And … Continue reading
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“War on Women, Waged in Postcards: Memes From the Suffragist Era”
Here. Below is one of the featured postcards.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Politics, Feminist Legal History
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You won’t see Glamour linked to on this blog very often…
But this short feature about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is very nice.
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“A Cultural History of Mansplaining”
Here at The Atlantic.
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“A school reveals it has a “Fantasy Slut League””
An excerpt just won’t do this article justice. Read the entire piece here.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Pornography's Harms, Sex and Sexuality, Sexism in the Media, Sociolinguistics
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“The War on Twelve Year Old Girls”
Subtitled: “An epidemic of high-profile trolling is a testament to how pathological misogyny is — and how early it begins,” you can read the entire piece by Mary Elizabeth Williams at Salon. …. And if you require any further proof, … Continue reading
“Bad Feminist” By Roxane Gay
Here. Below in an excerpt: There’s also this: lately, magazines have been telling me there’s something wrong with feminism or women trying to achieve a work/life balance or just women in general. The Atlantic has led the way in these … Continue reading
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“Amanda Todd’s Story: Struggling, Bullying, Suicide, Self Harm #RIPAmandaTodd”
Watch this video and think about what this girl went through.
Posted in Acts of Violence, Coerced Sex, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Technology
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“Girls’s Costume Warehouse”
A classic that is still relevant and hilarious (and maybe NSFW depending on your employer’s views about cussing): For some feminist commentary on this phenomenon go here. –Ann Bartow
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“Sorry, Plus-Size Women: You’re Too Fat To Dress As Fat Disney Character For Halloween”
Go to this post at The Consumerist to read a post that begins: I always loved Disney villain Ursula, the portly six-legged sea-witch who swaps the Litte Mermaid’s tail for a pair of legs in return for her lovely singing … Continue reading
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Interview with cartoonist Cathy Guisewite
Here. “Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and the Arts
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The Kiss Was Forced On Her
Check out “The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture” at Crates and Ribbons. It explains that in the famous photo below, the sailor was a stranger to the nurse, and he forced himself on her. That’s not a … Continue reading
Posted in Coerced Sex, Feminism and Culture, Sexual Harassment
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One of the original “Chiquita Banana” commercials
So much going on here! Courtesy of an awesome college student.
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“IKEA Regrets Women Erased From Saudi Catalog”
Compare the annual IKEA catalogs disbursed around the world and they are nearly identical, save for a slight difference. The difference is not in the Swedish translations of the furniture or the mock layouts of the numerous living rooms in … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media, Sisters In Other Nations
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“In fact, many European researchers say the test of a mature bike-sharing program is when women outnumber men. In the Netherlands, 52 percent of riders are women. Instead of promoting helmet use, European cycling advocates say, cities should be setting up safer bike lanes to slow traffic or divert it entirely from downtown areas. “Riding in New York or Australia is like running with the bulls — it’s all young males,” says Julian Ferguson, a spokesman for the European Cyclists’ Federation. And that’s in part what makes it dangerous.”
That is an excerpt from this article, which criticizes mandatory bike helmet laws.
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Staten Island Borough President Calls Lady Gaga a ‘Slut,’ Manhattan Borough President Defends Her, Pace Law Professor Wishes Politicians Would Simply Leave Artist Alone
Brief news account of slut calling by James Molinaro here. Response by Scott Stringer here. The Pace Law Professor who wishes both of them would focus on making NYC a better place for all citizens and let Lady Gaga get … Continue reading
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Iranian Women Now Barred From Numerous College Majors Including Engineering, Nuclear Physics, Computer Science, English Literature, Archaeology and Business.
From the BBC News: More than 30 universities have introduced new rules banning female students from almost 80 different degree courses. These include a bewildering variety of subjects from engineering, nuclear physics and computer science, to English literature, archaeology and … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and Religion, Sisters In Other Nations
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Ever wonder how the USDOJ defines stalking?
According to this site: Stalking is a pattern of repeated and unwanted attention, harassment, contact, or any other course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear. Stalking can include: Repeated, unwanted, … Continue reading
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“Creepshots and revenge porn: how paparazzi culture affects women”
That’s the title of this article. Below is an excerpt: … Charlotte Laws first encountered these sites in January this year, after her daughter Kayla, who is in her mid-20s, had her computer hacked. In Kayla’s email account was one … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, If you're a woman, Pornography's Harms, Sex and Sexuality
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‘Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue’s Edith Wharton Spread?”
That is the title of this Slate article, which notes: … Several hundred writers and fans had descended upon The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country house in Lenox, Mass., to celebrate the author’s 150th birthday with three days of panels and … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, The Underrepresentation of Women, Where are the Women?
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”A large proportion of the other advanced democracies in the world combine a commitment to free speech with rules prohibiting hate speech. Isn’t it worth considering how they do this? And why? No one is burning the constitution here. We’re just trying to think about it.”
From this NYT piece by Jeremy Waldron. Here is an excerpt: Democracies like Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Canada and New Zealand all prohibit hate speech of various kinds. They do so for what they think are good reasons. It is … Continue reading
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Another Day, Another Fear Mongering Article About Women Taking Over In Slate
This time it’s “Breadwinner Wives.” According to author Hanna Rosin “About 40 percent of wives in the United States now out-earn their husbands, and researcher Liza Mundy predicts they will be the majority in a generation.” I’m interested in where … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, If you're a woman, Women and Economics
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Sexism in Tech Ads
Here’s one for the Droid that implies iPhones are disgustingly girly (“It’s not a princess, it’s a robot”): Go here to view ten more sexist tech ads.
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What Happens When Members of Historically Disadvantaged Groups Talk About Equality
Derailment Bingo is the the creative brainchild of piranha @ Dreamwidth, here. -Bridget Crawford
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Race and Racism, The Overrepresentation of Women
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Law Prof Riff on Chescaleigh’s “No Homo” Substitutes
The very funny Franchesca Ramsey (nom de video blog= Chescaleigh) pokes fun at the phrase “no homo,” a verbal addendum following a compliment, designed to distance the speaker from any implication that the speaker is gay or lesbian. You can … Continue reading
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Dr. K. Ryan Ziegler on Being a Black Male Feminist
Over at blac(k)ademic v.2, Dr. K. Ryan Ziegler writes (here) about how his past “as a black woman informs [his] black male feminist perspective today. Here is an excerpt: For some transmen, their female past conjures up memories of pain … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Masculinity
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If Anne-Marie Slaughter is a Dropout, We’re Chopped Liver
Over here at The American Prospect, E.J. Graff (Brandeis, Women’s Studies) has a great analysis of Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article Why Women Still Can’t Have It All from the July/August issue of The Atlantic. Graff responds to the italicized portions of … Continue reading
What is in a Name?
Via Tech Crunch (here), this chart: -Bridget Crawford
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“Like Saul on the Road to Damascus”: One Man’s ‘Conversion’ to Feminism
The whole “conversion” narrative is a bit awkward, but I read with interest this opinion piece from the Ottowa Citizen by David Moscrop, a PhD at the University of British Columbia. Here is an excerpt: I became a feminist gradually … Continue reading
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Women in the Media as in Society?
Despite the backlash following his “slut” and “prostitute” references about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh continues to denigrate women. More recently, he targeted Tracie McMillan, journalist and author of the book, The American Way of Eating, and stated, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Activism, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Feminism and the Workplace, Feminists in Academia, If you're a woman, Justice?, Law Schools, Law Teaching, Legal Profession, Masculinity, Race and Racism, Sexism in the Media, Where are the Women?
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The Eye of the Beholder?
From CNN: a discussion of the impact of documentaries such as Miss Representation and America the Beautiful on today’s youth. If you still wonder whether the image of women and gender in pop culture is still relevant, take a look … Continue reading
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The World’s Worst Sperm Donor
Over at The AWL, a fabulously NYC-centric blog, I found writer Jack Stuef’s clever-funny-sad-ironic essay, I Am the World’s Worst Sperm Donor. Here is an excerpt: In the end… Grant and Lee signed the treaty. It was over. I realized I … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Reproductive Rights
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Barbara Walters Says Santorum is Correct About “Radical Feminism”
Newsbusters.org reprints (here) a portion of the transcript from Monday’s airing of the morning talk-show The View. In one segment, Barbara Walters says she agrees with Rick Santorum that radical feminism is to blame for some women’s woes: BARBARA WALTERS: … Continue reading