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Author: Melanie Klein

Melanie Klein is an Associate Faculty member at Santa Monica College, teaching Sociology and Women’s Studies. She attributes feminism and yoga as the two primary influences in her work. She is committed to communal collaboration, raising consciousness, media literacy, facilitating the healing of distorted body images and promoting healthy body relationships. She has worked with the new citizen journalists of the LA Academy of Global Girl Media and the peer-educators of J.A.D.E (Joint Advocates on Disordered Eating) on ways to tap into the power of their own voice. She is an expert contributor in the areas of media literacy and body image issues for Proud2Bme, a newly launched NEDA project . She is the adviser of the Santa Monica College Leadership Alliance and the founder and co-coordinator of WAM! Los Angeles . She is featured in the forthcoming book, Conversations with Modern Yogis and the documentary, The American Housewife. Feminist Fatale sprang from her conversations inside and outside the classrooms as a larger platform for these observations, insights and comments on the cultural landscape. Her work may also be found at Adios Barbie , Elephant Journal , and WIMN’s Voices .
  • National

To Reclaim Slut or Not To Reclaim Slut: Is that the Question?

Melanie Klein

When I initially received my invitation to SlutWalk Los Angeles, I didn’t open it. I was aware of the Internet hoopla around SlutWalk, the anti-rape marches sweeping North America, Australia […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

J. Crew’s Toenail-Painting Ad Causes Pink Scare

Melanie Klein

The sweet J. Crew ad I celebrated last week has ignited a “pink scare,” with socially conservative commentators outrageously upset. The ad features a mother– J.Crew’s creative director, Jenna Lyons–and her son delighting […]

  • Voices

Click! It’s Not You, It’s Patriarchy

Melanie Klein

“It’s not you. You’re not an isolated case. It’s systematic and it’s called patriarchy,” said the radical 60-something woman at the front of the room with the “War is not […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

What Reality TV Taught Me About Sluts, Waifs, Douchebags and Angry Black Women

Melanie Klein

Is every woman either desperate to get married (Bridezillas), a slut/bitch (Rock of Love) or a beauty-obsessed waif (America’s Next Top Model)? Is every man either a despicable douchebag (Tool […]

  • Health

(Self)Love is a Battlefield

Melanie Klein

My body is a battleground. I have spent most of my life waging a war on it. I have vivid girlhood memories of my worth being measured by my waist size […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

George Clooney Is a Bachelor, Kim Kardashian Is a Spinster

Melanie Klein

It’s official. As Kim Kardashian approaches her 30th birthday in October, she is joining the ranks of women such as Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson: modern-day spinsters. There’s no comparable […]

  • Herstory

The Other L-Word: How bell hooks Dared Me to Love

Melanie Klein

My paternal grandmother should have never had children. Instead, she had five well before leaving her twenties. On the surface, my grandmother was emblematic of the post-World War II American […]

  • Health

Doll Parts: The “Barbie Executioner” Strikes Back

Melanie Klein

My mother never addressed beauty in a critical way. In fact, beauty was rarely openly discussed in my house, but was the lingering weight on the shoulders of all the […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Unretouched Photos: Empowering or Just More ‘Empower-tainment’?

Melanie Klein

Recently, there have been a few high-profile examples of magazines publishing images of “real” women: plus-sized models, or celebrities free of makeup and/or Photoshop. The ensuing publicity can make it […]

  • Health

When Infidelity Becomes “Sex Addiction”

Melanie Klein

Cue: High-profile, charismatic man married to high-profile, attractive woman in picture-perfect marriage is outed by a long string of lovers claiming to have affairs (often lasting several years) that include […]

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