“…damned mob of scribbling women” – Nathaniel Hawthorne
THOSE BADASS ♀ ARE AT IT AGAIN
Judith Butler: As a Jew, I was taught
it was ethically imperative to speak up
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“I call myself a feminist.”–Dalai Lama
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Film explores the life of China’s first feminist
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Sarkozy’s depiction of pregnant, ‘virgin’ Marianne sparks feminist …
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Forty years of women’s liberation
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The Revolution Won’t Be Demonized
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Steinem sounds rally cry, even in a whisper
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Johnny Depp Calls Attention to Simone de Beauvoir
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The Big Five » Feminism and Climate Change
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Exhaustion Is Political Parent’s Enemy No. 1
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“The Woman’s Cause is Man’s” — poet Tennyson
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Why this man will be celebrating women on March 8
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Philosophy prof uses ‘Wonderland’ to answer the big questions
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Memo to all women: No half for you in Hollywood
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Feminism, Disability, and John Currin
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‘Girl Power’ Author Marisa Meltzer Revives Riot Grrrl Rock
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Fashion is still a feminist issue
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Does That Make Her Crazy? – Carolee Schneemann
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William Shakespeare and Feminism: Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shew
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.
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thank you, Amy–just reading the quotations made me breathe deeply.
Very glad, Ruth – breathing too!
As I’ve commented before though, the screen won’t be a more equitable place for women 1) until our society accepts more unsympathetic, unattractive roles for women, and this filters through the system, through producers down to actresses accepting roles, 2) until someone finds a way to include women in tales of what are really depictions of male homosocial realms: war, gansterism/crime, business — are these really actually just depictions of most realities, given that most of the world is still, in day to day life, home and work and education, divided by gender?
Thanks Amy–particularly for the political mom post!