Women We’ll Be Reading 200 Years From Now

“Women I admire have gone through hell to get their work out there,” Erica Jong told us this past weekend. “I’d like to change that for you.” Despite its sale of 20 million copies worldwide, ...Read More

Great American Novelist?

Time‘s recent declaration of the obscure and notoriously media-shy writer Jonathan Franzen as our “Great American Novelist” was met, at first anyway, with shocking equanimity, it ...Read More

Candied Katy Perry Says “Eat Me”

Katy Perry’s California Gurls is, without doubt, the it pop-song of the summer. It’s everything a summer pop song should be–sweet and easy to digest. The accompanying video lays bare, ...Read More

Why “Vampires Suck” Doesn’t Totally Suck

It may not be brimming with hard-edged analysis, but the new parody of the Twilight series, Vampires Suck, is certainly more satirical than sucky. This parody, written and directed by Jason Friedberg ...Read More

Feminist Film Analysis 101: A Case Study of “Despicable Me”

Given the ire my reviews of Toy Story 3 and Iron Man 2 generated (especially in their traversal of the non-feminist blogosphere) was largely due to their feminist slant, I feel a little bit of “gendered ...Read More

I Heart Deadly Women

I can’t help but love Jane Greer and Barbara Stanwyck for their striking performances as femme fatales (deadly women) in the 1940′s film noirs Out of the Past and Double Indemnity. In Out ...Read More

The Makings of the Modern Heroine: Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth

Like so many outsiders, Linda(mint) Hammerick is a synesthete. Unlike Vladimir Nabokov, who, as Linda discovers, saw color in letters and sounds, or Wassily Kadinsky, whose paintings evoke the colors ...Read More

Across Oceans, Violence is Violence

Honor killing. Domestic violence. Murder. Spousal abuse. “She made me do it.” There may be different names for the murder of women by men in their families, but as first-time filmmaker ...Read More

Happy 150th Birthday, Annie Oakley!

“She’s obsessed.” That’s what my friends roll their eyes and say after asking me what I’ve been up to lately. The object of my obsession: the great American sharpshooting icon Annie Oakley. ...Read More

What Has Feminists Seeing Red?

I had the pleasure of conversing with Chris Bobel, Ph.D. about her new book, New Blood, which deftly tackles a taboo topic: feminism and menstruation. Ms./Adina Nack: You explore new feminist activism ...Read More

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