Breaking Dawn: Part 1—An Anti-Abortion Message in a Bruised-Apple Package
November 17, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 20 Comments
[SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals major events in Breaking Dawn.] As I sat watching the vampiric ode to white weddings that dominated the opening scenes of Breaking Dawn: Part 1, I waited anxiously ...Read More
“In Time” Wastes Time
November 2, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 1 Comment
Based on a very timely premise, the new film In Time ironically moves rather slowly over the course of its 109 minutes. Lacking a “time is running out” feel and failing to deliver an edge-of-your-seat ...Read More
Crime After Crime: So That the Imprisoned Shall Not Be Forgotten
November 1, 2011 by Holly L. Derr · 2 Comments
But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison. I was forcibly carried off from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have ...Read More
Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
October 25, 2011 by Aishah Shahidah Simmons · 1 Comment
I am the woman: Dark, repaired, healed Listening to you. … —Alice Walker, from her poem “Remember?” For more than four decades, Alice Walker has used the written word to make visible ...Read More
How Can We Interrupt Violence?
September 13, 2011 by Christie Thompson · 1 Comment
Ameena Matthews is used to being the only woman in a group of men. She even broke into the male-dominated world of organized crime to become the only woman lieutenant of a notorious Chicago gang. ...Read More
“Miss Representation” Shows How Media Mistreats Women
August 29, 2011 by Sarah Richardson · 12 Comments
“You never see the photograph of a woman, considered beautiful, that hasn’t been digitally altered to make her absolutely, inhumanly perfect. Girls are being encouraged to achieve that ...Read More
Wed, Bed and Bruised–But Certainly Not Equal
August 26, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 10 Comments
As today is the 40th anniversary of Women’s Equality Day, it’s an appropriate moment to consider the continuing inequalities women face. As a scholar of popular culture who tracks the way ...Read More
A New “Fright Night”: What a Difference a Female Screenwriter Makes
August 24, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 9 Comments
Debates about whether women’s writing was uniquely female or if there was a “feminine voice” permeated much femininist theorizing in the ’70s and ’80s. While I tend to be wary of ...Read More
“Circumstance” Explores LGBT Oppression in Modern Iran
August 18, 2011 by Christie Thompson · 1 Comment
Iranian American director Maryam Keshavarz had a story of modern-day Iran that she thought needed telling. A story for which she and her cast were willing to give up the right to revisit their homeland ...Read More
Blowing the Whistle on “Peacekeeping” Sex Traffickers
August 16, 2011 by Natalie Wilson · 3 Comments
The book version of The Whistleblower provided a harrowing, page-turning account of sexual trafficking in post-war Bosnia, revealing how the private military contractor DynCorp, the United Nations ...Read More
