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Janell Hobson on Hip-Hop Feminism
Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, Janell Hobson (Women’s Studies, SUNY) writes Can’t Stop the Women of Hip-Hop: [N]ow that mainstream hip-hop has become corporate, such women have been mostly silenced (most infamously when Sarah Jones was fined in 2001 by the FCC … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not Too Often Among Magazine Authors, Either
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has published The Count 2010, its annual tally of authors whose work appeared (or was reviewed) in magazines like the Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, the NY Times Book Review, the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, The Underrepresentation of Women
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The Value of a Name
Names are important. They reflect our identity, and so the ability to keep or change them implicates our autonomy. A recent lawsuit in Japan brings this importance into sharp relief. There, a group of women filed suit yesterday, challenging a … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law
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Oedipus, Kay Jewelry Style
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWFhn-mq4K4[/youtube] Kay Jewelers is running a commercial showing a male uniformed soldier (presumably) overseas, speaking by video phone with his wife. As the wife opens a jewelry box, the husband says proudly that he had help from his “wingman” — … Continue reading
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What’s in a name? For married women, a lifetime of effort.
A woman who decides to marry a man sets herself up for a lot of time spent thinking and talking about her name. If she decides to change her name, she opts in to a lengthy bureaucratic name-changing process so … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sexism in the Media
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Karlyn on “Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers”
This new book announcement from the University of Texas Press caught my eye: Unruly Girls, Unrepentent Mothers, a companion to Kathleen Rowe Karlyn’s groundbreaking work, The Unruly Woman, studies the ways popular culture and current debates within and about feminism inform … Continue reading
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CFP: Women and New Media in the Mediterranean Region
From the FLP mailbox, this call for abstracts from the Isis Center for Women and Development: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE WOMEN & NEW MEDIA IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION ISIS CENTER FOR WOMEN & DEVELOPMENT June 24, 25, 26, 2011 – Fez, Morocco … Continue reading
Comic Journalism’s “Brenda Starr” Retires
Mary Schmich is retiring the comic strip “Brenda Starr” tomorrow after writing her adventures for twenty-five years. Ms. Schmich took over duties for “Brenda Starr” in 1985 after the originator, Dale Messick, retired. Brenda was a trailblazer, a woman who … Continue reading
Isabelle Caro, Model, Anti-Anorexia Campaigner, Dies
Daniele Gouzard-Dubreuil Prevot, model Isabelle Caro’s acting teacher, announced that Ms. Caro died (Los Angeles Times obit) last month and was buried November 24. Ms. Caro, who suffered from anorexia, posed for the famous anti-anorexia ad labelled “No Anorexia” in … Continue reading
Documentary on Black Masculinities in Comic Books, “From Shaft to Sidney Poitier”
Readers may be interested in the film Shaft or Sidney Poitier, “a documentary film examining the representation of Black masculinity in comic books” produced by Jonathan Gayles. Academics writing on comics, popular culture and gender include Mark Anthony Neal (Duke, … Continue reading
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Grabbing a Woman’s Backside: Does the Gender of the Grabber Matter?
Hypothetical: Person A grabs/touches/pinches Person B’s backside without Person B’s consent. Does one’s assessment of the situation change based on the sex or gender identity of Person A and/or Person B? Does it matter if Person A and/or Person B … Continue reading
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Are the Media’s Representations of Supreme Court Nominees Gendered?
Renee Newman Knake and Hannah Brenner, both of Michigan State University College of Law, have published Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession: What the Media’s Depiction of Supreme Court Nominees Reveals About the Pipeline to Power as an MSU Legal … Continue reading
Nothing Says ‘Thanksgiving’ Like ’99 männliche Luftballons’
Healthy Girls Healthy Women reports here on its on-line petition requesting that Macy’s add an equal number of female-character balloons to its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the 84-year history of the parade, only 8% of all the balloons were of … Continue reading
CFP: “Precarious Spaces: (Dis-) Locating Gender,” U Rochester March 24, 2011
From the FLP mailbox, this call for papers: Precarious Spaces: (Dis-) Locating Gender The 18th Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Rochester March 24th & 25th, 2011 Keynote Speaker: *Laura … Continue reading
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Guest Blogger Amanda Gonzalez: Can Acting Like a Man Really Work Against Patriarchy?
I have a confession to make: I truly love trashy television and radio. I’m not above any of it. Not 16 and Pregnant, not Justin Bieber, not Real Housewives. I love it all. As I was singing along to the … Continue reading
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Can you picture an ad for prostate cancer featuring a delicate, manicured hand squishing a dude’s junk?
That is the question posed at IBTP in a post excerpted below: It’s breast cancer awareness month! Awesome! There is much patriarchy to blame when it comes to breast cancer awareness month. Such as Komen. Komen, as I have declaimed … Continue reading
Manliness, Part III: Paradox
Thanks to Bridget for calling our attention to this curious story involving female political candidates challenging the manliness of their male adversaries; the story also includes male candidates ascribing feminine vices to their female candidates. Both phenomena are interesting, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Masculinity
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Calling All Bloggers
The blog Girl With Pen is seeking assistance. See the job posting below. It’s been a little quite round here this summer. But we’re coming back in blazes come fall. And speaking of: Author and Founding Partner of She Writes Deborah … Continue reading
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New Book Announcement: ‘Girls to the Front’ by Sara Marcus
Music and politics writer Sara Marcus has published Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Harper Perennial, Paperback, 2010). Here’s the description from the book’s website: Riot Grrrl roared into the spotlight in 1991: an … Continue reading
Festschrift 2.0: Ms. Magazine Blog Celebrates bell hooks
The Ms. Magazine blog is in the middle of bell hooks week, “a series of essays celebrating the life and works of the extraordinary bell hooks. hooks has made a significant impact on feminism, race theory, education, class politics, the … Continue reading
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Sizzle and Steak
Lady Gaga is wearing a meat mini on the cover of Vogue Homme Japan: I have a feeling that this magazine cover will inspire “Is Lady Gaga a feminist icon?” debates in Women’s Studies classes all across the country (Madonna … Continue reading
Vintage Clairol Ad
From 1952. I find it interesting that the “sleeping beauty” who is awakens is a redhead, not the blonde who went to sleep. And those eyebrows would be no minor feat. image source: Duke Library Digital Collections. -Bridget Crawford
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Is (Black) Beauty Still a Feminist Issue?
That’s the question that Feminist Law Prof Imani Perry (Princeton) asks in this piece over at HuffPo: Last night I read my friends’ tweets about the Miss Universe Pageant. But I didn’t watch it. I am an old fashioned feminist when … Continue reading
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Middle Men’s Tax Angle
This week, I saw the movie “Middle Men” starring Luke Wilson and Giovanni Ribisi. I won’t spoil the ending, but income tax considerations — and a collective desire to outwit the “tax man” — play a huge role in the … Continue reading
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In the Library With the Man Your Grades Could Be
The video was produced by the library at Brigham Young University. Hilarious! H/T Paul Caron (here). -Bridget Crawford
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Culture
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Strawberry Shortcake Gets a Makeover at 30
It looks like Rainbow Brite is not the only toy getting a makeover. Strawberry Shortcake has a new look, too. Today’s New York Times reports (here) that the new Strawberry Shortcake will be introduced by Hasbro at this year’s Comic-Con … Continue reading
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New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has recently issued a report of the results of studies conducted about gender in media. The results can be viewed here (PDF). Among them: Study 1: G-rated movies from 1990-Jan. 2005: Fewer … Continue reading
Ambivalent About the Boobquake
You’ve probably seen it by now. First, a Neanderthal Iranian cleric scolded women for wearing “immodest” Western clothing which of course leads to adultery, which of course causes earthquakes. In response, blogger Jen McCreight announced: On Monday, April 26th, I … Continue reading
Please Don’t Put a Wig on Your Baby
I know some people find “baby wigs” funny and harmless, but I find them utterly disturbing. In my view, putting a wig on a baby either (a) sexualizes the child; or (b) functions as a type of minstrelsy (coincidence that … Continue reading
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The Regulation of Naming
Yofi Tirosh, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, has published A Name of One’s Own: Gender and Symbolic Legal Personhood in the European Court of Human Rights, in volume 33 of the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2010). Here … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Families, Feminism and Law, Feminist Legal History
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Why did David Brooks feel the need to churn out another concern-trolling column urging women to choose marriage over career success?
Historiann contemplated that question here. –Ann Bartow
Gender Construction Right Before Your Eyes
Startling and moving. I have to give the dad props for posting this to YouTube, given how things roll. –Ann Bartow ETA: Video has been made “private.” What it showed was three children, two girls and a boy, in the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Sociolinguistics
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“Chess For Girls” from SNL around 1997 – Has anything changed?
via videosift.com
Posted in Feminism and Culture, If you're a woman, Sexism in the Media
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Georgia judge obstructs effort by Hustler to pornify photo of murdered hiker; Georgia law preventing distribution of certain crime scene photos has also been proposed.
From CNN: Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday. The decision came as state lawmakers considered legislation … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Feminism and Culture
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“Pop culture’s suddenly full of tweeniuses – but why are they all boys?”
That is the question addressed by Bitch magazine in this article.
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In honor of “The Hurt Locker’s” Kathryn Bigelow, who became the first woman to win the Oscar for Best Director last night, and International Women’s Day, a list of pioneering women movie directors.
From “Movie Mom” Nell Minow: 1. Penny Marshall, who started as an actress (“Laverne and Shirley”), went on to direct films that included “Awakenings,” “Big,” and “A League of Their Own.” 2. Amy Heckerling is the director of “Clueless” and … Continue reading
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HuffPo post asserts Stephen Colbert treated Sean Hannity “like a prostitute.”
The post is here, along with a video clip. Below is the appalling text: Last night Stephen Colbert sat down with Sean Hannity, who “joined [him] live from stuff [he] could edit together,” and with some crafty splicing, proceeded to … Continue reading
Women’s History Month at Sarah Lawrence: The Message is in the Music: “Hip Hop Feminism, Riot Grrrl, Latina Music, and More”
Women’s History Month Conference The Message is in the Music: Hip Hop Feminism, Riot Grrrl, Latina Music, and More Twelfth Annual Women’s History Month Conference at Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville, New York Friday & Saturday, March 5 & 6, 2010 … Continue reading
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Susan J. Douglas, “Enlightened Sexism: The Seductive Message that Feminism’s Work is Done”
Described here. An essay by Douglas entitled “Girls Gone Anti-Feminist” that touches on the book’s themes is available here. Below is an excerpt: … Enlightened sexism is a response, deliberate or not, to the perceived threat of a new gender … Continue reading
Fighting Your Oppressor
versus: Via. –Ann Bartow
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Just in Time for February 14: “Hip Hop’s Languages of Love”
Women and Language. There’s a whole journal with that name: WOMEN AND LANGUAGE, an international interdisciplinary research periodical, serves as a forum for innovative studies and critical conversations among feminist theorists and gender scholars. Women and Language accepts submissions of … Continue reading
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Wonder Woman: From Non-Killing Superhero to “Bullet Breasts”
Artist Linda Stein breaks it down in this video.  [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-xMFvGSPH4[/youtube] In an article for the most recent On the Issues Magazine (here), Stein writes: Created by William Moulten Marston in 1941, Wonder Woman was the”invincible enemy of injustice.”She … Continue reading
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Mr. Deity and the Help-Meet, Or, Explaining the Politics of Housework In Three and a Half Minutes
I’ve discovered “Mr Deity and the Help Meet,” in which Lucy (aka Lucifer) takes Mr. Deity to task 3 days before the Creation for changing male and female roles (and the balance of power). Giving birth? Breast feeding? The women … Continue reading
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Samantha Bee on Male Oppression
Here. Won’t be everyone’s satirical cup of tea but I thought it was funny. –Ann Bartow
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When a Guy Checks You Out, Check Yourself
The Windsor (Ontario) Star reports here on a psychological study by Professor Diane Quinn (Psychology, UConn) and others of the impact on women’s behavior of visual assessments (aka, getting “checked out”): Though it’s impossible to know the weight of a … Continue reading
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Can iCramps be far behind?
From here: All Tech contributor Omar Gallaga wrote a great post about rejected names for Apple’s new tablet computer, but I know he didn’t see the iPad coming! Good thing Mad Tv did way back in 2006. I’m assuming there … Continue reading
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A story about having the same conversation about pornography over and over with men.
By Sam Berg, excerpted from here: Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism Winter 2010, Issue #45 “Hi: I’m a writer at The Oregonian in Portland, working on a story about the sex culture … Continue reading
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Women are well represented in some of the categories…
… for a refreshing change.
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People = Men, a passing example.
Over at Alternet Vanessa Richmond asks: “Why Do People Want to Have Sex with the 9-Foot Tall Natives in ‘Avatar’?” But by “people” she clearly means men. Here is an excerpt: James Cameron’s comments in interviews suggest the reaction is … Continue reading
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