Category Archives: Feminism and Culture

This post is so perfect it has been supercopied exactly from its site of origination, A Brooklyn Bridge: “During an address to law students at the University of Freiberg, Scalia made an interesting observation: “Question comes up: is there a … Continue reading →

From the Guerilla Girls website: We took Kong, gave him a sex change and a designer gown, and set her up in Hollywood, just a few blocks from where the Oscars [were] awarded March 5, 2006. Why? To reveal the … Continue reading →

In my academic writing I am developing a thesis I call “the pretend war over pornography.” My position in part is that many right wingers love invoking the spector of poronography against liberals so much that they really don’t want … Continue reading →

The Aphrodite Project: Platforms, by Norene Leddy …One of the main concerns of contemporary urban sex workers, even in areas where prostitution is legal, is violence. Each sandal will have an audible alarm system, which emits a piercing noise to … Continue reading →

“News” story about middle school administrator who is distracted by eighth grader’s hair here. It contains all the usual plot points: She is “a straight-A student,” which apparently is somehow supposed to make her more of a victim of repressive … Continue reading →

And 613 is how many photos appear in”The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds,”by Gretchen Edgren, according to this article in the New Yorker entitled “The Girls Next Door,” by Joan Acocella, in which one learns: In January of 1958, … Continue reading →

Jill Carroll freed!

Ariel Levy wrote a book called Female Chauvinist Pigs, which received the following review from Publisher’s Weekly: What does sexy mean today? Levy, smartly expanding on reporting for an article in New York magazine, argues that the term is defined … Continue reading →

The Clutter Museum blog hosts an interesting post about scrapbooking. Below is an excerpt: “…when we scrapbook, we’re not just “telling stories” as a journalist, or even a photojournalist, might. Instead, we’re imposing narratives, and therefore fairly explicit meanings, onto … Continue reading →

“Strength comes from refusing to be shamed.” Blogger “Manxome” at”Climacteric Clambake”has written very powerfully about her experiences with sexual abuse, and just posted Part 3: “Humiliation.” The introduction to this “Long Story” series is here. Part 1: “Petrification” is here. … Continue reading →

“The Death of Viola Liuzzo, March 25, 1965,” at Bats Left, Throws Right. “I am a person of color, for what it’s worth,” at Blackademic. “Why Women Lawyers Quit Their Jobs and Feminism is still Necessary,” at Doing Justice. Overview … Continue reading →

The original: The parody: The story here, more details available via GreeneSpace.

You can listen to their new song here. A little twangy for my tastes but I like the sentiment: “…I made my bed and I sleep like a baby With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’ It’s a sad … Continue reading →

Read about it here, at a site maintained by the Catherwood Library, where I spent a good portion of my undergraduate years studying, doing my reserve reading, talking to my friends (and getting shushed for it, and deservedly so) and … Continue reading →

This post at “Morphing Into Mama” triggered this post at I Blame the Patriarchy, which inspired a lot of blogosphere conversation. Here is an excerpt: “…according to this astonishing post, our Morphing Mama believes that if you gain a few … Continue reading →

The title of this NYT article had promise, “Women Wage Key Campaigns for Democrats” but it was downhill from the very first sentence: “If the Democrats have their way, the 2006 Congressional elections will be the revenge of the mommy … Continue reading →

Aspazia at Mad, Melancholic Feminista reviewed the “Students for Academic Freedom” Manual and has some observations about it here. She has also written up a list of instructions you can follow to increase your chances of getting reported! It isn’t … Continue reading →

All kinds of great links and commentary here, at Angry for a Reason!

“Octavia E. Butler (1947 – 2006) was a brilliant African American writer who broke barriers with her courageous and profoundly truthful books and stories. Winner of many awards including a MacArthur Fellowship, and speculative fiction’s highest honors, the Hugo and … Continue reading →

The wonderful Echidne writes: “…[F]eminism is more than just addressing topics of sexual or gender equality. It’s a part of a larger outlook on the world, a way of seeing it and the creatures in it from an angle of … Continue reading →

According to this BBC News article: “Desperate Housewives star Teri Hatcher has revealed she was sexually abused by an uncle during her childhood. Hatcher says she kept the attacks secret until 2002, when the 14-year-old victim in an abuse case … Continue reading →

From a post at the blog Vociferate: “This week, on reading the search terms that weirdos had used to get to my blog, I found the third of what seems to be becoming some kind of trend. This week it … Continue reading →

Iraq Three Years Later with Noah Feldman, Victor Davis Hanson, Joe Klein, Kenneth M. Pollack, and Andrew Sullivan Miller Theatre at Columbia University “The United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003. Tonight, Miller Theatre marks the third anniversary by … Continue reading →

“Womenomics 101” is an Alternet article with information and links about ways in which “American corporations — enabled by a political class dominated by men — continue to punish [women workers] for the high crime of being female.”

“Standing at the Crossroads: Race Class and Art” is commentary by Kevin Alexander Gray, president of the South Carolina ACLU and contributing editor to Black News in Columbia, SC. Here is an excerpt: …Whenever people say things like Hurricane Katrina”ripped … Continue reading →

By Helen Brown, here. Atwood has a new collection of short, fictional essays out called “The Tent.”

A poem by Molly E. Holzschlag that you can read here. Via Blackfeminism.org.

Read about The Street Harassment Coalition here. Also check out their blog, “A Week In the Life of a Woman on the Street.”

A blogger who calls herself Manxome at “Climacteric Clambake” writes very powerfully about her experiences with sexual abuse here. (Part one is here. Part two is here.)

“The Geeky Feminist” discusses her experiences with pornography here.

Dr. Crazy teaches undergraduates and blogs at “Reassigned Time.”   Here is an excerpt of one of her recent posts: “For those of you who don’t recognize the title of this post, it’s a quotation from the movie Mean Girls, … Continue reading →

Via Jessica at Feministing: “The Newcomb College Center for Research on Women–in collaboration with the New Orleans Women’s Studies Consortium, The New Orleans Network, and Girl Gang Productions–has put out a podcast of International Women’s Day: Addresses on the Matter … Continue reading →

Three interesting blog posts that you might enjoy: 1. “What’s Happiness Got to Do With It?” at Mad Melancholic Feminista 2. “Proud (and happy) to be a miserable feminist” at Rude Barbie 3. “Has The Civil Rights Movement Made African-Americans … Continue reading →

I just spent four days at Loyola Law School in New Orleans delivering presentations to faculty and students. Television and the print media have not given us an adequate sense of the disaster that was and that continues. 80% of … Continue reading →

Laura Quilter at Derivative Works writes: “i’ve been too angry to post about south dakota : and really, too unsurprised and cynical to have anything particularly interesting to say : but some music has been particularly resonant to me the … Continue reading →

Andrew Lawless published this interview at “Three Monkeys Online” where you can read the whole thing. Below is merely the first three (introductory) paragraphs: “Censorship is not limited to totalitarian States. It can be a subtle thing, when disconcerting ideas … Continue reading →

Anyone else read “Of Manliness and Men” in the 3/12/06 NYT and think, this is like some kind of Monty Python skit? If you missed it, here’s an excerpt: Questions for Harvey C. Mansfield Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON “Q: As … Continue reading →

“Letter to Alex and Chris, Twelve Years in the Future” at One Good Thing “The Rape of the Earth” at Creek Running North “South Dakota Special” at Michael Berube’s blog “Women Are Like Sheep: Cuddly, Easily Led” by Amanda Marcotte … Continue reading →