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Ouch. Tony Blair’s autobiography, A Journey, has been nominated for the award no author wants to win – the Bad Sex. And the nomination is not only a criticism of Blair’s skill at writing, um, bedroom...
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I’ve been feeling a significant loss of faith for humanity lately for a number of reasons that don’t even include anonymous internet bashing. But, what’s this? A spark of light in the darkness in the...
View ArticleIs Bemoaning the Lack of Fictional Female Mentors Taking Feminism Too Far?
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Sometimes, though, it’s … well, not. In fact, much of the time life sort of goes along in a way that could almost be considered typical. Stereotypical, even,...
View ArticleParis Jackson is Becoming an Icon
Michael Jackson took steps throughout his life to keep his children out of the public eye. I can remember looking at the masks they wore out and about, wondering just what the heck his kids looked...
View ArticleFeminist Harry Potter
A contributing writer for Huffington Post created a Feminist Harry Potter Tumblr for a final project in her feminist theory course, and in less than one week, the blog reached about 80,000 page views...
View ArticleThe Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines The Status of Women Book Review
Elisabeth Badinter has written a new book called The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines The Status of Women, and it’s intriguing. The book’s title seems a bit harsh, but when you talk to...
View ArticleFive Shades of Misogyny in “Fifty Shades of Grey”
As soon as I heard about E.L. James’ Fifty Shades of Grey, I knew I’d probably end up reading it. I tend to go to the those “bandwagon books” (The Hunger Games, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and...
View Article‘How To Be A Woman’ By Caitlin Moran
When Nora Ephron passed away, I was devastated. I didn’t know her, but I really, really wanted to. I guess I felt like I did know her in a way that we were in the same club … female writers. I felt a...
View ArticleBook Review: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women...
Reading Half the Sky by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn is an intensely sobering experience. Meena, a sex slave in India, had such a horrendous life that I doubt anyone could make this up....
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