"EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009&
2009-09-06 18:12:00 "EveryBody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009" at I-Space Review by Candice Weber Bonnie Fortune and I-Space, the Chicago gallery of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have put together an impressive exhibition of visual resistance in the women's health movement that encompasses activist posters, video, performance, and the work of...
Mom, lesbian and feminist bloggers flock to Chicago
2009-07-24 19:17:00 It's the year of the mommies at BlogHer 2009. At least, that's what one ChicagoNow contributor had to say.The annual convention for women bloggers continues through Saturday at the Sheraton Chicago. Chicago Subtext's Amy Guth is a BlogHer veteran and wrote in an email about how the event has changed over the years:...
Let's talk about queer, feminist sex
2009-07-14 19:58:00 Did you ever think you could be watching a sexy video at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S. Halsted Ave.)? Today would have been one of your first opportunities to do so, with the screening of Filming Desire as part of the free film series SEX POSITIVE pro-SEX, pro-QUEER, pro-KINK that's happening every Tuesday through October 13.Filming Desire is a documentary about female directors and the way they portray sex and sexual relationships on screen. Some of those interviewed include Sally Potter (Orlando) and my personal favorite, Catherine Breillat. There are elements of feminism, queerness and all around sex-positive discussions from women who aren't afraid to show what they want on camera — the kind of women whose movies...
Assignment to our Readers:Question to Determine Integrity of your Feminist
2009-07-02 00:40:00 I task all my readers to ask their feminist friends how they would rate the following hypothetical woman: While a housewife, having only been elected to local office, this woman helped expose the corruption and/or end the political careers of three white male Republican politicians holding statewide office. Ask them if they believe such a woman should ...
By: GayPatriot
Marilyn French, feminist and novelist, dies at 79
(AP)
2009-05-05 22:20:00 AP - Marilyn French, the writer and feminist whose novel "The Women's Room" sold more than 20 million copies and transformed her into a leading figure in the women's movement, has died at 79.
Shakesville: Barack the Feminist
2009-01-19 20:53:00 [From Shakesville ] posted by Melissa McEwan | Tuesday, January 13, 2009 So, I just got a press release from Ms. informing me that soon-to-be-President Obama will grace the cover of their upcoming inaugural issue revealing, superhero-like, a t-shirt he’s “wearing” (where “wearing” means “poorly Photoshopped to look like he’s wearing”) that reads: THIS IS WHAT ...
By: News for Greens
Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art - artmarketblog.com
2009-01-17 16:05:00 Jenny Holzer and Feminist Art - artmarketblog.com The work of Jenny Holzer, one of the most influential and most important artists of her generation, is currently the subject of a major retrospective that has been organised by the Chigago MCA and the Fondation Beyeler. The exhibition, titled “Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT” focuses on the last fifteen ...
By: Art Market Blog
Court Delivers Devastating Blow to Leading Feminist Attorney Barry Goldstei
2009-01-07 22:29:00 Few family law cases are as heartbreaking as those involving Parental Alienation, where one parent has turned his or her children against the other parent, destroying the loving bonds the children and the target parent once enjoyed. Many of my readers have experienced it in various forms and to varying degrees. Feminist groups, including the National ...
Feminist Professor Wendy Murphy Seems Unhappy about Due Process in Rape Cas
2008-12-10 19:46:00 “That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury.” I guess the accuser’s story is always “the truth” and giving consideration to the accused’s explanations–”the sex was consensual,” etc.–is just “indulging male entitlement over women’s freedom.” From ...
Feminist Professor Wendy Murphy Seems Unhappy about Due Process in Rape Cas
2008-12-10 19:17:00 “That we allow defense attorneys to obfuscate and eroticize rape trials as a way of distorting the truth to produce an unfair result only adds insult to injury.” I guess the accuser’s story is always “the truth” and giving consideration to the accused’s explanations–”the sex was consensual,” etc.–is just “indulging male entitlement over women’s freedom.” From ...
Feminist Carnivals
2008-11-13 21:10:00 I found out yesterday that my Access to Feminism post, about (dis)ableism in the feminist community has been featured in the 68th Carnival of Feminists. They have randomly called me Penny, but that doesn't matter, it's nice they spotted and included my post. The issue does need to be brought out into the open.There are some other interesting posts in the Carnival. What a crazy random happenstance talks about Feminist Dealbreakers - what constitutes a 'dealbreaker' in the relationships in her life. Behaviours or attitudes which force an end to a relationship with someone. For her, it can be people who claim to be feminist pro-lifers, for instance. Reading the post, and the discussion continues in the lengthy comments section, got me thinking. I realised I have different deal-breakers depending on who the person is! Most notably if they are new to my life I deal break quickly and firmly, for instance someone being anti-choice or pro-pornstitution writes them off instantly), wherea...
Sarah Palin Has Lived Pope John Paul II?s Vision of a Feminist Christian Wo
2008-09-11 06:49:00 Ted Lipien, author of ?Wojtyla?s Women: How They Shaped the Life of Pope John Paul II and Changed the Catholic Church,? said that Sarah Palin can be described as a New Feminist Christian woman who has followed the most important rules for marriage and families set by the Polish Pontiff. www.tedlipien.com/index.htm September 10, 2008, San Francisco ...
Another Feminist for McCain-Palin
2008-09-08 19:36:00 My liberal-leaning lesbian friend is not the only feminist backing the McCain-Palin ticket. In yesterdsy’s San Francisco Chronicle, Tammy Burce writes that the Alaska Governor “offers something even more compelling” to the GOP ticket than bridging the “enthusiasm gap” for conservatives and indepedents: a chance to vote for a someone who is her own woman, and ...
By: GayPatriot
Sarah Palin: The Modern Feminist Ideal
2008-09-08 14:06:00 Ms. Steinem: That chromosome AK Gov. Sarah Palin and NY Sen. Hilary Clinton share is the same one that you and Palin - and all women - share as well. But it is Palin ? whom Cindy McCain described as a ?reform-minded … hockey-mommin’ … basketball shootin’ … moose huntin’ … fly-fishin’ … pistol-packing … ...
Rihanna Feminist Anthem With Amy Winehouse & Duffy
2008-06-03 02:18:00 Post from: Black | Celebrity Gossip | Celebrity News | Celebrity Photo | Black Entertainment News | MWZA.com Rihanna Feminist Anthem With Amy Winehouse & Duffy Rihanna Chris Brown MTV “Movie Awards” Photos Rihanna and Chris Brown were pictured at the MTV “Movie Awards” held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City last night.Rihanna has revealed that she ...
You're welcome, from this 60-year-old feminist (hu...
2008-05-28 02:08:00 You're welcome, from this 60-year-old feminist (humanist), whose parents (born 1911 and 1913) were ALSO feminists (humanists). All their adult lives, my parents peacefully fought for the rights of women. Helped organized Planned Parenthood, too. SO much more!So I thank MY beloved mother and father for bringing me up in such an intelligent, caring, and loving environment.PEACEWoodstock Hippie
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Thankyou Daisy, for being a second wave feminist a...
2008-05-21 11:30:00 Thankyou Daisy, for being a second wave feminist and a great blogger. Thankyou second wave feminism for most of the things on daisy's list as well as for giving one of your own, a second wave feminist stay at home father who told me I could be anything I wanted to be and meant it.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
US university honour anti-feminist icon Mrs Schalfly
2008-05-20 02:50:00 (The Straits Times May 19, 2008)A top US university, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, honoured 83-year-old Phyllis Schalfly, a mother of six children, who heads one of the most successful anti-feminist organisations in the United States.She founded it in 1972 as she mobilised thousands of people in a successfuly campaign to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment, which was meant to guarantee equal rights under the law for Americans, regardless of sex.She argued that it would deny a woman's right to be supported by her husband and "lead to women being drafted by the military and to public unisex bathrooms."She continues to write columns and deliver lectures on college campuses, setting off controversy with her open call for legal distinctions between the rights of men and women.Last year, she called for a ban on women holding the positions of firefighter, solider and construction worker and argued that a woman cannot claim to have been raped by her husband."By getting married...
Is gender feminist just a synonym for weak?
2008-05-17 23:38:00 Ever notice a gender feminist. a/k/ cow. that had mind of her own, or actually took a stand to improve the lot of women? Neither have I. The cows were out in force in St Louis, Kavita Kumar,, STLtoday, “Hundreds turn back on Schlafly at ceremony” ST. LOUIS — Some felt the silent protest with white armbands and the dramatic turning of backs was disrespectful. But those who took part said it was a fitting way to show their disapproval that Washington University was honoring a woman whose views and life’s work they strongly disagree with. For her part, Phyllis Schlafly, the 83-year-old at the center of the controversy, said she thought it was “juvenile” of students who were “raining on their own parade.” But it didn’t ruin her moment, she said. At today’s commencement ceremony held on a sunny Brookings Quadrangle, Schlafly did not seem to notice the hundreds of backs turned to her while a citation heralding her accomplishments wa...
By: BitsBlog
The Feminist Movement and its Contribution to the Modern Home (Part 2)
2008-05-14 06:01:00 The issue in the minds of most liberal women is the idea of equality. They feel that to be a housewife is a disgrace and that they should not have to subject themselves to that low degree. They feel that the position of housewife is a lower position and that they should not have any more responsibility to fulfill that role than should the husband. The problem they have is that the look at the proper Biblical role of women as a lesser position and the workforce as a higher position. This is twisted, corrupted thinking. The Biblical pattern provides for the care and love of women. It provides for them to be honored and exalted. Yet the modernist looks at it as the opposite. The workforce is a hard place and a hard path to go. It is a place that the husband should not want the wife to have to lower herself to. If God leads then the husband and wife will go that direction but usually God does not lead in that way and the husband should have a desire to deliver his wife from having to l...
By: The Watchman
The Feminist Movement and its Contribution to the Modern Home (Part 1)
2008-05-13 06:01:00 At the founding of America the home was the most important thing in a person?s life. Men bleed and died in order to prepare a land where they, their families, and their posterity could live in freedom and prosperity. They fought with their lives to protect and prosper their children, wives?? their families. Men worked hard to provide for the home, often working far more than eight hour shifts, far more than five days a week, far more than is the norm today. Women of the day were exalted, loved, and taken care of. These women loved their families and counted it a great honor to raise and rear children with godly principles of hard work and character. Women of these days didn?t look at being a housewife as a chore, but as a privilege. They loved their children to the point that they wanted to give all that they had to see them grow up to be men and women of character for the next generation.God?s design for the home is very similar to the way of life that was the accepted norm for the...
By: The Watchman
Mother Nature is not a feminist
2008-05-10 20:53:00 Why the cows, a/k/a the feminazi, a/k/a gender feminists are doomed. Mother Nature is not a feminist. The long explanation by John Derbyhire, National Review,: In biology, however, “fitness” is a term of art, a measure of how well an organism is adapted to its environment. Reproductive success is a pretty good measure of fitness, in this term-of-art sense. Thus if, as my reader seems to believe, dumb people have more kids than smart ones, then dumb people are fitter (in the biological sense) than smart people, by definition. They are better adapted to their environment. You might think that smart people are superior in some way to dumb people, but Ma Nature doesn’t agree with you. The only “superiority” She acknowledges is reproductive success. She also doesn’t insist that every species, in every environment, get smarter, faster, bigger, and stronger. If the demands of fitness decree that dumber, slower, smaller, and weaker bring reproducti...
By: BitsBlog
Feminist Trailblazer Hillary!!?!!
2008-05-08 21:32:00 “Do you know how difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything? The Democratic Party has to know that women are the core, women have to be at the table and women are going to be heard as we continue in these contests until they finally end.” – ...
Obama, The Radical Feminist
2008-05-07 00:00:00 Men’s rights activists aren’t too happy with Obama and his so-called radical feminist agenda. As you can most likely guess, men’s rights activists view feminism as a “dogmatic belief in a malevolent, all-pervasive conspiracy that renders its victims helpless.” …Heh, “victims.” They also believe that (while comparing Obama’s affiliation with Jereimah Wright and ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
I was a feminist once
2008-04-29 19:26:00 This post has been a long time coming. I have played with the words in my mind. I have written down scraps of feelings and bits of anger. I have created more rabid drafts and deleted them, more gentle drafts and thrown them away.Part of my hesitation was that in recent weeks so many women of color bloggers have laid it down so eloquently:Latoya Petersen at Racialicious here and here.Sudy at A Woman?s Ecdysis here and here (Hell, just read what Sudy?s been writing for the past week. It?s awesomely fierce.)The Angry Black Woman here.I also have been loathe to write this post because I wanted to believe that there was reconciliation to be had between the feminist movement and women of color. I wanted to believe that my split with feminism was temporary?sort of a cooling off period. I co-hosted the Women?s History Month blog carnival with Heart at Women?s Space so that we could all talk it out and come together. But I ended the carnival a lot less hopeful than I let on.Do I believe that...
By: What Tami Said
Featured Article: The Feminist Revolution and The Last Age
2008-04-21 04:00:00 Note:The following article was first published on the 15th of August 2007.The Qur’an likened the creation of the male and the female to that of the ‘night’ and the ‘day’, implying that they complement each other “… like twin-halves of a whole.” But they are also functionally different; hence a successful and harmonious male-female relationship requires that the ‘day’ (i.e. the male) must function as ‘day’ and not try to become ‘night’, and similarly the ‘night’ (i.e., woman) must function as ‘night’ (which covers and conceals) and not try to become ‘day’. Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) ordered, “. . when a girl reaches the age of puberty nothing must be seen of her body except this and this (he pointed to the face and hands).” And so Muslim women have always covered themselves in Hijab—concealing arms, legs, bellies, head, hair, etc., in loose-fitting clothing.Since women have a basic function of bearing and rearing chi...
Feminist Majority Foundation--Career Center
2008-04-19 16:54:00 Please click the title link to be taken to the most awesome social worker adaptable job listing/career center I've found so far.
'The Feminist Porn Awards announce 2008's winners, and Violet Blue wants to
2008-04-15 08:04:00 From: WTF is feminist porn? Feminist porn. For many, seeing those words together is like putting together the words "comfortable flight," "lightly scented" and "Bill O'Reilly: journalist." We now have Jet Blue and Virgin America, not everyone can smell your panty liners, and there's no debate about the irony of the last bit ? but pretty much everyone wants to know, what the hell are porn and feminism doing in bed together? Some pretty nasty, kinky, shocking, and fun things, if the selections from this year's Feminist Porn Awards are any indication. The winners were announced April 7 and included local bondage model (and porn performer, producer, art gallery owner and self-identified feminist) Madison Young (madisonbound.com). Winning Hottest Kink Film for her debut film, the ultra-stylish Madison Bound Production "Bondage Boob Tube," Young summed up her stance on feminism, porn, sex work and the raging debate between anti-porn feminism and pro-porn feminists in h...
By: Circle of 13
This is What a Feminist Looks Like
2008-04-10 00:00:00 This video was put out by the Feminist Majority Foundation and has been out for a little while now, but it is truly a timeless video debunking those stereotypical feminist myths and using celebrities and familiar faces such as America Ferrera, Larry David, Michael Moore and Lisa Loeb to tell people what feminism is, who ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "This is What a Feminist Looks Like", url: "http://menstrualpoetry.com/fem-inist-looks-like" });
By: Menstrual Poetry
Feminist Therapy
2008-04-03 11:02:00 GoodTherapy.org maintains a list of psychotherapy & counseling approaches for the purpose of informing consumers about different forms of therapy. We’re currently updating this list of therapy models and we’ve just finished our update to Feminist Therapy. Feminist therapy is distinct from traditional therapeutic approaches in its focus on the role of gender in psychological ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Feminist Therapy", url: "http://www.goodtherapy.org/cus-tom/blog/2008/04/03/feminist-th-erapy/" });
My Inner Feminist
2008-04-02 02:19:00 My husband is driving home as we speak. I can remember as a child how upset I always was that I was continuously being fed the message that women are inferior to men. Women's brains don't work as well because we are ruled by emotion and not reason. Our opinions are not valid because we just don't understand the way the world works. We are to be tolerated. We get all riled up over silly little things and therefore our being upset is not worthy of acknowledgment. I guess this is why I was upset that Lily said that boys mow the lawn and not girls.In the ninth grade we were given a comprehensive test which had to be passed before we could graduate from high school. One component of the test was we had to write a proper paragraph. I of course failed because my topic sentence was about one thing and my paragraph was about another, see above paragraph. It makes sense to me. Hopefully it will make sense to you too. I am sure they would fail me on my paragraph writing skills aga...
Heidi Montag Is A Feminist Icon
2008-04-01 22:29:00 Some TV critic over at the New York Times reviewed the season premiere of The Hills, lit up her pipe and referred to Heidi Montag as a "feminist". Gloria Steinem must have read that and shaved her head. Heidi is frothing with joy over this and responded. "I was very honored to be called a feminist hero," Heidi said. "It's a big deal to be even acknowledged, let alone complimented by The New York Times by such a profound, famous TV critic." Hee. Was the height of her feminism when she was rolling around on the beach letting the ocean splash over her plastic funbags as Spencer Pratt taped all the skank? She was on all fours, backing it up to the camera to sell her terrible single! She's Eleanor friggin' Roosevelt! Maybe it was when she shot to fame by feuding with another woman on a reality TV show. Because that's sisterhood. Seriously, she should be holding the N.O.W. banner at the head of the parade. All I want to do now is squat with her holding mirrors to our vaginas as...
Heidi Montag: A Feminist Hero?
2008-04-01 17:16:00 What is Heidi Montag's claim to fame this week, a feminist hero.1 Vote(s)
By: JeQQ it
My Little Feminist /sarcasm
2008-03-29 15:38:00 After driving Mandy to work this morning, and getting Lily settled down with some cartoons, I decided I should mow the lawn. I have a very brown thumb but I still am determined to have a nice yard. I told Lily I was going out to the back yard to mow and she told me, "girls don't mow, only boys mow"Lily out-climbs, out-runs, out-jumps, every boy on the playground. She may like to wear pink but she is a rough little girl. Where have I gone wrong, how have I failed? Where is my little feminist? I was so upset. I spent 45 minutes trying to get the mower to start, now I am blogging. Where are all the boys?Jeff is off at the Bataan Memorial Death March this weekend. Have fun baby, don't worry I will find a way to mow even if I have to go and buy an electric lawn mower. Why don't they just have a key starter like the car?I follow comments. Leave a comment and I will come visit your blog.
I really enjoy your blog too! Feminist discussion...
2008-03-27 21:50:00 I really enjoy your blog too! Feminist discussions are important to insensitive guys like me, but the irony is I'm too sensitive to frequent the places where such discussions happen. I love that you've been working hard on the many questions that transgender people bring for so long. Most questions are hard and so require time to work out. Your pointing to blog wars also says something about the commitment it takes to deal with hard questions.I deplore online bullying, threats and violence. But I also am uncomfortable sometimes with pleas for niceness that would undermine vigorous argument. So your willingness to roll up your sleeves and argue is an inspiration.Gender is a difficult subject and so is sexuality. It's great your blog is so far ranging because it allows guys like me an entry into a world of important human questions. My life has been enriched by being involved with male forums which include transgender men.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
I really enjoy your blog too! Feminist discussion...
2008-03-27 21:50:00 I really enjoy your blog too! Feminist discussions are important to insensitive guys like me, but the irony is I'm too sensitive to frequent the places where such discussions happen. I love that you've been working hard on the many questions that transgender people bring for so long. Most questions are hard and so require time to work out. Your pointing to blog wars also says something about the commitment it takes to deal with hard questions.I deplore online bullying, threats and violence. But I also am uncomfortable sometimes with pleas for niceness that would undermine vigorous argument. So your willingness to roll up your sleeves and argue is an inspiration.Gender is a difficult subject and so is sexuality. It's great your blog is so far ranging because it allows guys like me an entry into a world of important human questions. My life has been enriched by being involved with male forums which include transgender men.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
Memo to MeMe: This is why fat is a feminist issue
2008-03-26 20:28:00 During The Morning Show with Mike & Juliet in which Mo and I appeared alongside the one-woman-anti-obesity-organiza-tion-founder MeMe Roth, Roth didn’t quite seem to get the connections between feminism and fat rights or feminism and body size acceptance or feminism and eating disorders or feminism and well, anything else. Her exact words were, according ...
Heidi Montag Feminist Hero! MTV The Hills Premiere v. Gloria Steinem
2008-03-24 18:44:00 Heidi Montag is the next Gloria Steinem? The world has officially come to an end, or at least tonight on the season premiere of MTV’s hit sort-of-reality show, THE HILLS. Today, the New York Times actually called Heidi Montag (drumroll). ….. “a kind of feminist hero”. Sorry, did you just choke on your food also? That’s the funniest ...
My Radical Little Feminist
2008-03-22 14:36:00 Julia has declared that she will no longer listen to music sung by boys because she only likes songs that girls sing. She’s in a very Pat Benetar kind of place right now, musically. I pointed out that her current favorite song - Build Me Up Buttercup - is sung by boys. She responded ...
By: My Mommy's Place
A Feminist Critique of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby
2008-03-22 04:53:00 Even if they disagree about other issues, all feminists believe patriarchal ideology works to keep men and women confined to traditional gender roles so male dominance may be maintained. Utilizing the precepts of Feminist criticism, it could be argued ?The Great Gatsby? promotes a thinly veiled patriarchal agenda. Through Fitzgerald?s treatment of the three women ...
A Feminist Critique of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby
2008-03-22 04:53:00 Even if they disagree about other issues, all feminists believe patriarchal ideology works to keep men and women confined to traditional gender roles so male dominance may be maintained. Utilizing the precepts of Feminist criticism, it could be argued ?The Great Gatsby? promotes a thinly veiled patriarchal agenda. Through Fitzgerald?s treatment of the three women ...
A Feminist Critique of F. Scott Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby
2008-03-22 04:53:00 Copyright © 2008 Terry Heath. Visit the original article at http://terryheath.com/178/a-fem-inist-critique-of-f-scott-fitzg-eralds-the-great-gatsby/.Even if they disagree about other issues, all feminists believe patriarchal ideology works to keep men and women confined to traditional gender roles so male dominance may be maintained. Utilizing the precepts of Feminist criticism, it could be argued ?The Great Gatsby? promotes a thinly ...
Feminist Icon Germaine Greer: Hillary Clinton Gives Me The Creeps
2008-03-11 20:49:00 When a male reporter rips into Hillary Clinton, he is accused by the Clintonistas of being sexist. I’ve written several essays exposing the hypocrisy, veniality and corruption of the First... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Charlotte Allen's WashPost Anti-Feminist Column Causes Firestorm
2008-03-06 20:08:00 I first learned about Charlotte Allen's controversial column in a response writen by Alex Leo in the Huffington Post and titled "Charlotte Allen Is a Bigot", which is bound to get anyone's attention. But before I jumped on the Anti-Charlotte bandwagon, I figured I'd do two things: 1) read her column and 2) contact her.I did both.I got this response from Charlotte, who was kind enough to take the time to write back. Now, "CA" is her and "ZA" is me. CA: Zennie:I'll try to respond to your queries, but briefly:ZA: I write a blog called Zennie's Zeitgeisthttp://zennie2005.blog-spot.com and I have a question for my post aboutyour column that has caused such controversy.What was the movivating factor for writing it? CA: Just fun--a friend of mine and I had been ventilating about all the dumb things women say and do. ZA: Also, is there some discomfort with being a woman? CA: I love being a woman? ZA: In other words, what's wrong with essentially being how you're wired? CA: No...
Hillary Clinton Is Not A Feminist Hero
2008-03-02 21:19:00 Hillary Clinton likes to portray herself as a feminist hero; she claims that if she secures the Democratic nomination and wins the general election it will be a victory for women. Hillary Clinton... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Proposing to a man, How to fake being a feminist, and Extreme Brides
2008-02-29 16:00:00 Happy leap year everyone! So today is the only day of the year that women are "permitted" to propose to a man, according to ancient folklore. So on that note, the Times UK has a good piece today called What happen when the woman proposes. According to the article, this is a trend that might pick up speed. ?I expect that more women than ever will be proposing in 2008,? says Dr Sheri Jacobson, a relationship counsellor at Harley Therapy in London. ?I think that attitudes are shifting and there's more room for women to assert themselves.? How much more room can there be? ?Women might seize on this chance to propose if they were already entertaining the idea and either want to get things moving quicker, use it to express their deep affection, or feel they want to take charge.? Perhaps that's true. But most women I know won't even ask a guy out or call to confirm a date. What do you all think? Would you first a) Ask a guy out or b) Propose to a guy?
By: Daily Cents Blog
Debunking the Feminist Myth
2008-02-26 00:00:00 When people hear the word feminist, most identify with the word on a level of pure extremism. Some can’t help but contort their faces into a horrified, “hide the children” expression. My personal favorite, however, are the questions–Do you burn bras? So you hate men, right? Are you a lesbian? ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
2008-02-17 15:00:00 As P.S. 1 ones their doors today on this grey Sunday morning, they also open the doors on WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. The first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art was organized by MOCA in LA. WACK! focuses on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. This exhibition takes over the museum with work on will the entire First and Second Floors, and part of the Third Floor. The exhibition spans the period of 1965 to 1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Work is in a broad range of media including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art. Show runs through May 12th. Read More...Digg this | Email to a friend | Reddit
By: FreeNYC
Feminist Video Art as Forerunner to Postmodernism
2008-02-14 18:05:00 Administrator's Note: The following essay by Diane Blackwell, current Corcoran College of Art + Design senior and former Theory Now student, focuses on the importance of postmodernist theory on feminist video. Diane?s meticulous research on this topic directs our attention to further discursive analyses by multiple sources, and her passion for feminist video as a unique and continuing movement in contemporary art is skillfully represented in her writing. With great pleasure, I post it here for readers of this site. ?. . . since around 1970, it has been feminist responses and approaches to visual images that have provided some of the strongest, most polemical, and most productive theories and critical strategies to come out of any of the disciplines or modes of analysis associated with visual culture.?(1)Amelia Jones in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, 2003.Two events in the 1960s caused a dramatic change in the way art was formulated; one was cultural, the other was techn...
By: Theory NOW
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