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“Are women sexually liberated, or just confused?”
That’s the title of this (U.K.)Times Online article. Two excerpts follow: … Fifty years ago, in The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir described womanhood as a socially constructed activity; today, after several waves of feminism, and a recognised right to … Continue reading
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Is Nancy Pelosi Too Hot Looking Or Not Hot Looking Enough?
She can’t be just right, no woman ever is.
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Burger Pornography Starring a Former Vegetarian
In a new commercial for Hardee’s “Western Bacon Thickburger,” Padma Lakshmi, former vegetarian and current host of reality TV show Top Chef, strolls through a farmer’s market and takes up residence on an urban stoop. She takes a burger out … Continue reading
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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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Hoarding Babies, Hoarding Animals
I previously blogged (here) about my essay, co-authored with Lolita Buckner Inniss, Multiple Anxieties: Breaching Race, Class and Gender Norms With Assisted Reproduction. Multiple Anxieties is about is about misplaced attention on women’s bodies. Focusing on Nadya Suleman, the … Continue reading
Eat Me.
Via I Blame the Patriarchy, I found the blog Suicide Food, which tracks “depiction[s] of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed.” Images like this: and this: That second one makes me think about terminating the “baconpheffer” … Continue reading
Posted in Acts of Violence, Baconpheffer, Feminism and Culture
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“I Was Followed, Harassed, And Ambushed By Bill O’Reilly’s Producer”
Read Amanda Terkel’s story here.
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Trim and Transform? Not That Again…
This network television ad for the Schick Quattro TrimStyle for Women razor proclaims, “Now it’s easy to shave, trim and transform with just a flip of a handle, whatever your style.” A female runner passes three small bushes that go … Continue reading
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“Images of Masculinity in Disney Films”
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“Lorraine Hansberry’s Gay Politics: Why the ‘Raisin in the Sun’ playwright’s homosexual ties have been straight-washed from black history.”
That’s the title of this essay at The Root. Via.
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“Feminism 101: On Language and the Commodification of Sex Via Humor”
Melissa lays it out here, noting: [O]ne of the most common themes among the emails I get is gratitude for expressing frustration or contempt or anger at something of which, women have been told in explicit or implicit ways, our … Continue reading
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The first all-female, all African American crew to operate a commercial flight:
(From top, left) Captain Rachelle Jones, First Officer Stephanie Grant and flight attendants Diana Galloway and Robin Rogers. The AFL-CIO NOW blog reports: Last month, when first officer Stephanie Grant of Atlantic Southeast Airlines got the call to replace the … Continue reading
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Multiple Anxieties: Breaching Race, Class & Gender Norms With Assisted Reproduction
Lolita Buckner Inniss (Cleveland-Marshall, Ain’t I a Feminist Legal Scholar, Too?, Visiting Prof at Pace Law School) and I have posted to SSRN our working paper, Multiple Anxieties: Breaching Race, Class and Gender Norms With Assisted Reproduction. Here is the … Continue reading
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“Female Merit Badges” were designed by artist Mary Yaeger to represent female rites of passage and the many physical manipulations women undergo to achieve cultural ideals of beauty.
Homepage here. Via, by way of here.
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Billie Jean King, “No person should be discounted by their sexuality”
Tennis.com features this interview with Billie Jean King, who was “outed” in 1981 by a former lover. Here are some highlights/soundbites from the interview: “No person should be discounted by their sexuality or any other reason. You just don’t do … Continue reading
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SPEAK! THE WOMEN OF COLOR MEDIA COLLECTIVE HAS RELEASED A SELF-TITLED DEBUT CD
Information here.
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Thinking S-L-O-W-L-Y
Is it just me, or is there something a little odd about the similarity between the “slow-sex movement,”described here, and the slow-food movement? (The latter is now organized into”Slow Food,” a non-profit that seeks “to counteract fast food … Continue reading
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A Farewell to the L-Word
Here, at Feminist Spectator.
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“Women Are Heroes”
Interesting account of a global photography project here.
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Buy Smaller Sized Eggs?
“Buying large eggs is cruel, shoppers told”: It might make a larger omelette but a bigger egg isn’t necessarily a better one : and it certainly doesn’t make the hen that laid it very happy. That is the view of … Continue reading
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“The Powder and the Glory”
PBS will soon air a documentary about the cosmetics industry: The Powder & the Glory tells the story of two of the first highly successful women entrepreneurs in America, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. One hundred years ago these women … Continue reading
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“Cable, Satellite Providers to Push Pay-per-View Porn”
So reports Advertising Age in an article with the subtitle “Huge Profit Potential in Down Economy Prompts Promotional Efforts.” It suggests that “professional” pornography will soon become cheaper and easier to access, and even more ubiquitous generally. –Ann Bartow
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“The Feminist Food Studies Bookshelf”
From this blog: Only in the past 10 years has there emerged a critical look at the centrality of women’s relationship to food practices and the meanings embedded in them. Here’s a few of those works. I’m developing a more … Continue reading
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A Mother’s Lesson in LSD
My mother is one of the most straight-laced people I know. The woman has never been intoxicated in her life and has never dropped the “f-bomb.” She has tremendously accurate grammar and an iron will. I was simultaneously surprised and … Continue reading
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“According to the CDC’s final numbers for 2006, just released this year, the teenage birth rate increased 3 percent, putting a stop to the 14-year decline from 1991-2005.”
From ABC News: … According to the report, teen birth rates were highest in the South and Southwest. Mississippi led the way, followed closely by New Mexico and Texas. The only states that saw a decrease in teen birth rates … Continue reading
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Feminist Bloggers Gone Wild!
Feminist Law Prof Darren Rosenblum spotted an announcement about a new (really off-Broadway) play in previews in NYC at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in Greenwich Village. The play is “That Pretty Pretty; or The Rape Play.” Here‘s the press announcement: … Continue reading
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Rush Limbaugh Trying to Find Out Why Women Don’t Like Him
This just in from the feminist humor department: Rush Limbaugh is concerned that there’s a gender gap in his audience and is holding a “summit” to figure it out. The whole story is here. Hmmm…. what a difficult inquiry. Put … Continue reading
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“At Work”
From here: When the economy makes big news, many photographs of people at work come across the wires, usually to help illustrate a particular story or event. By collecting these disparate photos over the past few months, I found that … Continue reading
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Boy Toys …
And girl toys? Ian Ayres has a question for you Happy Meal purchasers over at Balkinization.
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Toward a non-barbaric form of footwear?
Via Jezebel, a link to an article that apparently appeared in 1930 in a magazine called Physical Culture, called The High Cost of High Heels. It’s heavily infused with all manner of sexism, classism, and other forms of bigotry, all … Continue reading
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Did the NYT Ethicist get this right?
The bad pun heading was not a good sign, but maybe Randy Cohen’s answer was correct: I recognized a friend in a short video clip on an amateur pornography Web site. She is now a medical professional, wife and mother, … Continue reading
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Rutgers Symposium, “The Gender Dimensions of Terrorism: How Terrorism Impacts the Lives of Women”
This announcement from Feminist Law Prof Suzanne Kim: On March 6, 2009, the Women’s Rights Law Reporter, the nation’s first legal journal devoted to gender rights, will hold a symposium exploring the intersections of gender and terrorism entitled “The Gender … Continue reading
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Girls Can’t WHAT?
Share Your Story Here! As women, we’ve all been there at some point in our lives….a job…a sport…some activity where we were told we can’t participate simply because we were female. Answer the question … and tell us what … Continue reading
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“The Strong Black Woman is Dead”
An illustrated poem by Laini Mataka: Via Womanist Musings, where the full text of the poem is also available.
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Women Hating Fashion
Via Jezebel, where this post features many clips of falling models. Purportedly written by a model, some of the commentary is unsettlingly blase about the dangers of the featured shoes, and outright victim blamey in others, e.g. “People say she … Continue reading
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“Whatever you think Suleman’s choices say about her, I know I’m a whole lot more disturbed by what the cruel, bigoted, violent responses to those choices say about our society.”
Kate Harding at Broadsheet wrote the first post about Nadya Suleman I’ve wanted to link to. The title of this post is her concluding sentence, and she speaks for me on this too. –Ann Bartow
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Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Online Dating
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What’s the Difference Between Baseball Players on Steroids and Women With Breast Implants?
So Yankees star Alex Rodriguez has admitted to taking performance-enhancing drugs (ESPN story here). The news “tarnishes an entire era” in Major League Baseball, as President Obama commented, but is anyone really surprised? I wasn’t. Ho-hum. One aspect of … Continue reading
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Department of: The Pornification of Everything
CLICK TO ENLARGE Taken in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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1959 TV Commercial Launching Barbie
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Great Feminist Take Down of Bill O’Reilly
Here.
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“Domestic Violence and Black Women’s Powerful Literary Telling”
Long and amazing post here at Like a Whisper.
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The Ugly Truth About Romantic Comedies
Amanda Marcotte has some interesting analysis here that was sparked by this:
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Are Women’s Armpits Stinkier?
That’s what one study concluded. No doubt deodorant companies will try to scare us into buying more product with this.
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Yep, sarcasm.
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Hermione Granger Fan Tributes
I posted seven here, just a fraction of what is available around the Internets. -Ann Bartow
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Bad Habits
A 1954 scholastic “Psychology For Living Series” film meant to show the perils of poor “habit patterns” by castigating the hapless Barbara for every single thing she does, and relentlessly comparing her to perfect Helen. The narration is pure … Continue reading
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Trans Fat: A Review by Zak Kramer and Elizabeth Glazer of “Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood” by Anna Kirkland
Abstract: In her book, Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood, Professor Anna Kirkland uses fat discrimination as a case study to examine the ways in which we talk about difference in antidiscrimination law. She argues that the proper way … Continue reading
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