Archive for the ‘feminism’ Category
I Love this Woman
Posted in feminism, health care, nailing it, politics on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
RIP Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Posted in feminism, sorrow on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Assvertising
Posted in feminism, media mayhem on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For any of you teaching units on ad analysis (and actually reading this), you should definitely check out Shakesville’s series on misogynist advertising, aptly dubbed “Assvertising.” They post ads and do what your students should be doing, at least on a micro level (and there are more than fifty entries).
Bitch Magazine Needs Your Help
Posted in feminism, writers & writing, writing on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pro-Life, Ideally
Posted in feminism, politics on September 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be Pro-Life. Like a lot of conservative rhetoric, the position means something other than the words used to describe it. Pro-Life, in practice, is decidedly Anti-Choice. But it’s not enough to say that. We need to understand why—beyond taking away a woman’s right to [...]
Women’s Equality Day
Posted in feminism, politics on August 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Second-Place Citizens
By SUSAN FALUDI
Published: August 25, 2008
San Francisco
MUCH has been made of the timing of Hillary Clinton’s speech before the Democratic National Convention tonight, coming as it does on the 88th anniversary of women’s suffrage. Convention organizers are taking advantage of this coincidence of the calendar — the 19th Amendment was certified on Aug. [...]
Posted in feminism, politics on February 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is amazing.
Posted in feminism, humor on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Maureen Dowd is a troll. Just saying.
Movie Week: Day #4
Posted in Indian cinema, feminism, movies on August 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In which I chose the wrong week to blog a movie a day…
Matrubhoomi is quite a dark piece of Indian social commentary. The film opens with a woman giving birth to a girl, and shortly after we see the parents drowning the baby in a tub of milk. Only boys are valuable; girls only cause [...]
