This election season marks an important anniversary in the history of women and politics: the term gender gap turns 30. And since women voters as a group have tended to be more progressive [PDF] when it comes to issues like reproductive freedom, social welfare spending, and gay and lesbian rights, this seems an apt moment […]
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Catching Up on Feminist Theory, 1: bell hooks
I’m your classic Second Waver–I came to feminism reading this familiar canon: The Feminine Mystique, Sisterhood is Powerful, The Female Eunuch, Lesbian Nation, The Second Sex, Against Our Will, Women and Madness, Sexual Politics, Towards a Recognition of Androgyny, Ms. magazine (I especially loved Jo Freeman’s essay “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”), Chrysalis and Heresies magazines, […]
Where Do We Go From bell?
Is it true that feminisms are everywhere? Are they really, as Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards suggest, “in the water”? Yes and yes. From music, film and literature to the online world of social networking and blogging, women are (and have been) creating kick-ass political analyses and social commentary on the intersection of oppressive social […]
10 Years of “Feminism is for Everybody”
At the dawn of this new millennium, bell hooks published Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, a slim, bright-yellow book with a powerful goal: to introduce feminist politics in an accessible format in order to reach the widest possible audience. She begins with a story of how proud she is to talk to everyone she […]
Blog Roundup: Mama Grizzlies, Butch Intellectuals and More
The weekend is here, and that can only mean one thing: It’s time for the Ms. blog roundup! We bring you the feminist must-reads for the week of August 15th, from Dr. Laura (left) to ill-conceived makeup to Rachel Maddow, to … “What Mama Grizzly wouldn’t believe in school lunches, health insurance and quality childcare?”–Stacey Schiff, […]
We Heart: EMILY’s List Grizzlies
EMILY’s List, whose goal it is to get progressive women elected, posted a hilarious video today on YouTube in reaction to Sarah Palin’s “Mama Grizzlies” video (in which Palin compares her supporters to grizzlies whose cubs are threatened, then moments later exhorts them to act like a herd of “pink elephants” and “stampede” Washington). The […]
Protecting Real Mama Grizzlies
During the 2008 Presidential campaign John McCain railed against “frivolous” government spending. In one television ad a voiceover announcer says “233 million for a bridge to nowhere. Outrageous… Three million to study the DNA of bears in Montana. Unbelievable…” We now know that McCain’s running mate, Sarah Palin, had a questionable relationship to that confounded […]
Blog Roundup: Editors’ Picks, July 5 – July 9
As another week comes to a close, it’s time once again for another installment of Ms.’s weekly blog roundup. We bring you the best of the feminist blogosphere, from new revelations about Mel Gibson, to the women of the Tea Party, to the all-out donnybrook that erupted in the blogosphere over accusations of sexism at […]
We Love: Couric, Steinem, Greene Weigh In On “The End of Men”
Yesterday, Ms. founder Gloria Steinem and Women’s Media Center President Jehmu Greene sat down on Katie Couric’s web show (video below) to respond to a The Atlantic article, “The End of Men: How women are taking control–of everything.” The article says: For years, women’s progress has been cast as a struggle for equality. But what […]
Happy Birthday, Rachel Maddow!
If you told me two years ago that I would soon be watching a cable news show hosted by an out butch lesbian, I would have expected you to follow up with “April Fool’s!” But today, the charismatic Rachel Maddow–whose birthday is April 1st, no fooling!–has become a fixture on the nighttime political commentary scene. […]