Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

Props to the NYT for publishing this article by Kathleen McElroy: The United States Tennis Association and Ralph Lauren are defining the difference between boys and girls. Duh. Boys, or ballboys in this case, conceal kneecaps and shoulder blades with … Continue reading →

In 1990 Lucy Hughes-Hallett published a book called Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions. A NYT review by Michiko Kakatani is available here. On August 19th of this year she published an article in the Guardian about Cleopatra called “The most … Continue reading →

By Deborah Solomon, here. This is an excerpt: Q: It’s been a generation since you founded Ms. magazine and became the face of American feminism, so why, at this late and supposedly liberated date, do we need GreenStone Media, an … Continue reading →

That’s the title of an “op-ed recap” of that Forbes.com column by Michael Noer, by Caryl Rivers, professor of journalism at Boston University, and Rosalind C. Barnett, senior scientist at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Below is … Continue reading →

Following up on the “On Astroturfing and Paid Shills” post below: One of the scariest articles I ever read was an expose published by Salon in 2001 called The Greatest Vendetta on Earth, by Jeff Stein. Part I is here. … Continue reading →

Read this post entitled “Their voice. Amplified.” or Why I’m banning 151.200.70.* comments at Newsrack Blog. Via Making Light. See also this post where the author observed: …the Internet is populated with strings of comments by the same posse of … Continue reading →

There was an article in my local paper about this, and I’ve been looking for it in the online version, but for some reason they appear not to have posted it. The Charleston Post and Courier has the story up … Continue reading →

At Digital Femme, Cheryl Lynn writes about Barbies, race and hair in a very compelling way. Via Pen-Elayne.

The G Bitch Spot has a long list, and links as well.

Okay, first of all, both the product itself and the packaging are completely repulsive: Naughty Nad’s Bikini Design Kit with 4 Naughty Bikini Shapes Remove Hair…..down there! Surprise that someone special or simply indulge your wickedness by personalising your most … Continue reading →

I don’t have anything nice to say about Katherine Harris, and I would be very happy to see her lose every election she ever enters by a friggin’ landslide. What I don’t understand, however, is why an ostensibly liberal blogger … Continue reading →

As noted here previously, Martha Nussbaum wrote a terrific review of Harvey Mansfields’s book Manliness (in the sense that her review was terrific, but not at all in the sense that she said the book was terrific, no, not that, … Continue reading →

Liz at Granny Gets A Vibrator has been blogging about her cancer diagnosis and treatment, and doing so with a lot of courage, and also humor and photos.

Read this! Below is an excerpt: I was in line with my Motown band and we were buying costumes. I paid first and was standing at the register as my friends were rung out. All of a sudden, one of … Continue reading →

Find out here, or read Bitch, Ph.D. [The blue color gave it away, huh? Okay, below is a girl camera. Are you gagging too?]