archive

Focus on empowering women

Deborah M. Weiss (McCombs): All Work Cultures Discriminate. Edwin S. Fruehwald (Hofstra): Evolutionary Feminism. From Skepsi, a special issue on Feminisms: The Evolution. From the Yale Journal of International Affairs, a special issue on women. The unobtrusive action of femocrats: A review of The Women’s Movement: Inside and Outside the State by Lee Ann Banaszak. Carolyn Bronstein on the origins of anti-pornography feminism. Ellen de Bruin takes a light-hearted look at national stereotypes, why Dutch women are happy, and what it means to be blonde. A review of Business Girls and Two-Job Wives: Emerging Media Stereotypes of Employed Women by Jane Marcellus. Ladies, we have a problem: Rebecca Traiser on sluts, nuts and the clumsiness of reappropriation. An interview with Laurie Penny, author of Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (and part 2 and more). Here are five problems with the feminism of Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. Maria Sveland on liberating literature for women, from Virginia Woolf to Erica Jong. A review of The Language of Female Leadership by Judith Baxter. A look at why romance novels, filled with torrid sex, mislead women. After baffling biologists for decades, the female orgasm has resisted yet another attempt to explain its elusive evolutionary origins. A review of How To Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran. The bitch is back: Are menopausal women mad, bad, and dangerous? Yes, but they’re really just returning to normal. Female writers don't get bylines — and it's not always their fault (and a response). You thought feminists had to focus on empowering women? Stephanie Coontz on why, after a sustained assault on families and unions, that just isn't enough anymore. A review of The Future of Feminism by Sylvia Walby. A look at 6 obnoxious assumptions Hollywood makes about women.