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“Are You a Feminist or a Womanist?” Staceyann Chin Responds
Staceyann Chin responds with poetry: “I am never any one thing or the other….” -Bridget Crawford
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Coming to Social Consciousness Through Hip-Hop
Over at Rhymes and Reasons: The Stories of Hip-Hop, Chicago-based community organizer Jasson Perez talks about one song’s influence on his intellectual and emotional development: I picked Tupac, “Keep Ya Head Up,” mainly because, well, it’s a great song, and its … Continue reading
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When Kurt Vonnegut Said, “I Worry About Women”
Over at Letters of Note, there is a beautiful post about a letter Kurt Vonnegut wrote in response to a 36-year old widow and mother of three. Marianne Brown explains, “For some reason I wrote to Kurt Vonnegut and thanked him for … Continue reading
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The reason
Interviewer: So, why do you write these strong female characters? Joss Whedon: Because you’re still asking me that question.
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Documentary “Miss Representation” Tonight on OWN
One of the hits of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival takes to the small screen tonight. The Oprah Winfrey Network will show the documentary film Miss Representation at 9:00 p.m. (eastern). Here is a description of the film: Like drawing … Continue reading
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Is a Book Like Sex?
In an interview with the UK Guardian (here), author Maurice Sendak says of e-books: “I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book … Continue reading
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“From Cleopatra Jones to First Lady Michelle Obama: Exploring Feminism in Film & Media”
The 14th Annual Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival will take place this coming weekend in Brooklyn, New York. Here’s an overview: Reel Sisters Film Festival will screen more than 25 films directed, produced or written by women of … Continue reading
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Financial and Other Support Requested for Documentary Film Advocating Justice for Sex Trafficking Victims and Survivors
Professor Kate Nace Day (Suffolk) was one of the organizers of the “Human Rights and Sex Trafficking” Film Forum, held last December in Cambridge, Massachusetts (previously blogged here and here). A collaborative team — including Professor Day, practicing lawyers, law students, … Continue reading
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Masturbation and Female Empowerment in Photos (and the Law?)
In The New Republic Ruth Franklin asks, Is Female Masturbation Really the Last Sexual Taboo? That’s the title of her review of a book of photographs by Will Santillo called La Petite Morte: Female Masturbation, Fantasies and Orgasm (Taschen 2011). Open any … Continue reading
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Real Woman Behind the Unreal Man (Or: Truth and Death)
This from the Op-ed section of [June 14th]’s New York Times: The novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, born 200 years ago today, was an unlikely fomenter of wars. Diminutive and dreamy-eyed, she was a harried housewife with six children, who suffered from … Continue reading
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Film About Loving v. Virginia at Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film festival begins next week. Included in the film line-up is Loving Story, a documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving. Here is the film description: Loving v. Virginia was a watershed civil rights case in which the United … Continue reading
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New Documentary on Women, War, Family and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Women Make Movies is distributing a new documentary film by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel. Here is the description of “Pushing the Elephant“: In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the violence that engulfed the … Continue reading
Fatal Charmers
Kevin Nance investigates the disappearance of the femme fatale from our screens. “For all her lying,” he says, “the femme fatale was a truth-teller, a bad woman whose real crime was to introduce a man to his own innate badness. … Continue reading
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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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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
When Maya Angelou and James Baldwin Walked into a Bar…
Maya Angelou recently donated 343 boxes of her papers to the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. At the accompanying ceremony/talk, she told a story about a time that she and James Baldwin went to a bar in … Continue reading
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The Sisterhood on “Mad Men”
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Gina Barreca weighs in on the Women of AMC’s “Mad Men,” here. Comments Ms. Barreca, Sisterhood, smisterhood. You know what’s really powerful? Women laughing together. Really laughing. Truth-laughing. Even when it’s all not politically or … Continue reading
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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 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
Half of the trained artists in the U.S. are women, yet they make up just 2% of the artists with works in the National Gallery in DC; at the contemporary art-focused Hirshhorn Museum, women make up only 5% of featured artists.
Pamela T. Boll examines this disparity and its causes in her documentary Who Does She Think She Is? Via. –Ann Bartow
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Death of Lucille Clifton
The Baltimore Sun has details: Former [Maryland] state poet laureate Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award winner whose work was lauded for its “moral quality,” died Saturday at Johns Hopkins Hospital after a long battle with cancer and other illnesses. … Continue reading
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Are lesbians becoming extinct?
Trivia: Voices of Feminism is the reincarnation of the iconic TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas published in print from 1982-1995. The newest volume, edited by Lise Weil and Betsy Warland, includes responses to the lesbian extinction question. As the editors … Continue reading
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You’re Speaking My Language: United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces Finds “mmmm-mmmm-mmmm” Constitutes “Indecent Language” in Court-Martial Appeal
You are a military judge. According to a female Marine, one day she was working in an ammunition magazine with a United States Marine Corps Corporal when she began to “freak out” upon discovering that she had a bug on … Continue reading
Women are well represented in some of the categories…
… for a refreshing change.
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Austin on “Women’s Unequal Citizenship at the Border”
Regina Austin (Penn) has posted to SSRN her book chapter, “Women’s Unequal Citizenship at the Border: Lessons from Three Nonfiction Films about the Women of Juárez,” forthcoming in Gender Equality: Dimensions of Women’s Equal Citizenship, edited by Linda McClain and … Continue reading
Monk and the Baroness: Nica Rothschild’s Contributions to American Jazz History
Later this month, the documentary film “The Jazz Baroness” will air on cable TV. The film was made by the English artist (and member of the Rothschild banking family) Hannah Rothschild. The “Jazz Baroness” explores the life of Kathleen Annie … Continue reading
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“Films for the Feminist Classroom”
The “Films for the Feminist Classroom” Collective has made available (here) its second issue of its review periodical. Here’s a general description of the periodical: Films for the Feminist Classroom (FFC) is an online journal hosted by the Rutgers-based editorial … Continue reading
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Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol” is awful. Her eyes were as big as saucers when it hit her like an uncoming train.
I’ll leave more detailed reviews for others, but here is something I found particularly stupid, at page 31. Protagonist Robert Langdon is lecturing to one of his freshman “intro” Harvard classes: …”In this age when different cultures are killing each … Continue reading
Is the Met Celebrating Woman as Sexual Prey?
A post at Feminist Philosophers asks that question. Above is Vermeer’s “The Milkmaid” which is purportedly charged with erotic imagery related to the vulnerability of women with this social status. –Ann Bartow
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E. Lynn Harris Dead at 54
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (here): Atlanta author E. Lynn Harris died Friday at age 54 during a west coast book tour. In a statement to the AJC, Alison Rich, Doubleday executive director of publicity said:”We at Doubleday are deeply shocked … Continue reading
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“”Make Her Say (Poke Her Face)”: Un-conscious Hip Hop, Oral Rape and the Silencing of Women”
That’s the title of this essay at Celie’s Revenge about a very misogynist song. Here is an excerpt from the introduction: As a female listener, one willing to allow herself to really hear this song’s words and take them to … Continue reading
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“Woman Suffrage in Iowa” at Blanden Memorial Art Museum
“Woman Suffrage in Iowa: 90 Years After the ‘Winning Plan’” is a current exhibition at Blanden Memorial Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The image of the poster at left, featured in the Blanden exhibit, derives from an original painting … Continue reading
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Remember when Ray Comfort claimed bananas proved Darwin wrong?
Well now there is a handcrafted product commemorating same, the Ray Comfort Tampon Case! Minds out of the gutter; that is a banana on the front of his pants. Order yours here. The artist says: “Materials: felt, fabric glue, thread, … Continue reading
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Marilyn French has died.
Feminist author Marilyn French died yesterday. NYT obituary here. From the Telegraph (U.K.): … Marilyn French was born on November 21 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, the elder of two daughters of an engineer. Her mother, a clerk in a … Continue reading
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An Answer to a Man’s Question,”What Can I Do About Women’s Liberation?”
An Answer to a Man’s Question, “What Can I Do About Women’s Liberation?” by Susan Griffin Wear a dress. Wear a dress that you made yourself, or bought in a dress store. Wear a dress and underneath the dress wear … Continue reading
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“For years, I could think of nothing more humiliating than being a woman with a $75,000 education who got caught reading a book cleverly titled “The Throbbing Pirate”, for which the cover art is just a close up of an improbably bulging codpiece.”
Post title extracted from this post, which robustly praises romance novels. Here’s another excerpt: Then when I was sixteen, after a few years of not reading any romance novels, I picked up Judith McNaught’s Something Wonderful on a complete whim. … Continue reading
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“Where Have All of the Female Rappers Gone?”
See this post here at the new(ish) Hip Hop Law blog! Another recent post is titled: “Candy Girls Are Not Made of Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice.”
“The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency: The Many Facets of Raced and Gendered Tele-Identity (Or, Nemos, Nomos and Narrative)”
New post by Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buchner Inniss, here.
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Sixth Annual IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections Conference – “Female Fan Culture and Intellectual Property” April 23 & 24, 2009
Presented by American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Women and the Law Program, and Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, in collaboration with American University’s Center for Social Media and The … Continue reading
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New Ani DiFranco Song “November 4, 2008″
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