FEMINISM IS FOR EVERYBODY. So said bell hooks and so say I. But — and I hate to say it — there are people out…
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EARLIER THIS MONTH, a marketing campaign for the new film Suffragette showed the (all-white) cast — including Meryl Streep and Carey Mulligan — wearing tee…
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Get involved with the girls in your life.
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“You piss someone off? Stand behind it.”
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Is there a cure for toxic masculinity?
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WE LIGHT UP WHEN WE HEAR IT: another young star comes out as a feminist.There are cheers and pats on the back to go around, and…
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EVERY FEW YEARS, it seems, women-only spaces come into the news for a brief moment. Sometimes the focus sparks debates about whether women’s spaces subvert the…
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IF YOU TRY TO TRACE the debate between feminist leaders and prominent religious speakers, you’ll probably come away from your research thinking, “There’s no way…
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PLASTIC SURGERY appalls and fascinates us. From new vaginal contouring procedures to speculations over whether a celebrity like Uma Thurman has had work done, we really…
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JOURNALIST RACHEL HILLS’ first book, The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality, tackles what she names (and shames) as “the sex myth”…
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GOOGLE BEYONCÉ. Taylor Swift. Rihanna. Katy Perry. Nicki Minaj. Read the Facebook and Twitter commentary on the articles you find. I’ll guarantee half of it ranges …
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I’ve already argued that bringing the body in line with one’s self-conceived gender identity does not undermine the idea that gender norms are socially constructed as…
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