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Author: Paula Kamen

Paula Kamen is the author of four books and the play Jane: Abortion and the Underground, which has been performed at many college campuses. Her first book, Feminist Fatale, was about the importance of consciousness raising for the post boomer generation. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Women’s Review of Books and McSweeney’s, among others. She tweets @paulakamen.
  • Herstory

Remembering Sandra Lee Bartky as We Fight On

Paula Kamen

Among those lost in 2016 is one of the leading feminist intellectual minds of women’s interior lives—but her work can and should inspire the next generation.

  • Arts & Entertainment

Downton Gabby’s Bawdy Feminist Commentary

Paula Kamen

Fans of Downton Abbey will know the forlorn feeling I’m talking about: It’s when a cliff-hanging final scene ends and you are left with the sad realization (and a mysterious […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Theater Uses Feminist Quiz to Promote Play

Paula Kamen

If you have burned up even minimal time on Facebook, you have likely taken those ubiquitous quizzes that offer a whole new level of self-knowledge than anything available to  previous […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Transparent‘s Jill Soloway on Inventing the Female Gaze

Paula Kamen

You don’t watch the new show, “Transparent,” as much as you mainline it. Like me, you may plan to  just watch one episode of the season before bed on Amazon […]

  • Arts & Entertainment

Venus in Fur: Is It Good for the Feminists?

Paula Kamen

Before I met 36-year old Chicago-based director Joanie Schultz, I never really saw or thought about the connection between Jane Austen and the politics of the dominatrix. This was among […]

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Playwright Rebecca Gilman on Feminism, Class and Flawed Heroes

Playwright Rebecca Gilman on Feminism, Class and Flawed Heroes

Paula Kamen

A common thread in playwright Rebecca Gilman’s widely performed, often gritty and self-described “naturalistic” works is violence against women

  • Arts & Entertainment

The Pulitizer-Prize Winner As a Young Feminist

Paula Kamen

At the age of 35, playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes has much to be proud of. A Yale graduate from West Philadelphia, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama last year […]

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Eye-Opening Dispatch from “Kingdom of the Sick”

Paula Kamen

Laurie Edwards is all too familiar with life in the “kingdom of the sick,” which is how cultural critic Susan Sontag famously described the hidden world of chronic illness. From […]

  • Herstory

The Woman Who Separated Church From State

Paula Kamen

Just [this week], presidential candidate Rick Santorum was all over the media with his comment that JFK’s pledge to absolute separation of church and state made him “want to throw up.”

  • Arts & Entertainment

Ha Jin Revisits Nanjing’s Rape

Paula Kamen

“Doing what can’t be done is the glory of living.” When American missionary Minnie Vautrin cites this old Quaker saying to an admirer in Ha Jin’s Nanjing Requiem, she means […]

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