Feminisms: One Year Anniversary
It was 364 days ago that Feminisms began. I had the honor of writing the first Feminisms diary, and now I have the honor of writing the diary for the one-year anniversary of this series.
View ArticleFeminisms: Rape on Campus
During my junior year of college, the men’s basketball team threw a birthday party in their shared fraternity house for one of the star players. During the party, one of the player’s girlfriends passed...
View ArticleFeminisms: Let's Talk About Sex
This week my students and I are reading a great book by sociologist and legal scholar Kristen Luker. First published in 2006, and recently released in paperback, When Sex Goes to School is a...
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Feminisms 10/17/07: The Souls Behind the Snake Oil
It is my honor to write this week’s installment of Feminisms. In light of some of the more moving diaries offered today, I hope this is taken with the spirit in which it was written, and I would hope...
View ArticleFeminisms: What's On Your Mind?
Welcome to Feminisms:Feminisms is a series of weekly feminist diaries. My fellow feminists and I decided to start our own for several purposes: we wanted a place to chat with each other, we felt it was...
View ArticleFeminisms: Help Pretty Bird Woman House
Last spring, Devilstower wrote the post Here There Be Monsters:Your parents may have told you there are no real monsters. Your parents were wrong. This week, Amnesty International issued a report...
View ArticleFeminisms: The Monstrous Regiment of Women
At this point when someone tells me that women are under attack by the Religious "Right", my response is usually to yawn. Nothing new there. I've heard that all my life. In college I read Backlash: The...
View ArticleFeminisms: Aging—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I will turn 58 on Monday, Nov. 19. That means it’s TWO YEARS till I am sixty. I will no longer be middle-aged. I’ll officially be Old. And I thought I’d share my experiences as an Older Woman with...
View ArticleFeminisms: Boys Gone Wild
I am a football fan. I grew up in a football family. My dad was an assistant coach with the high school football team and I attended more scrimmages and football games than I can count. This is one...
View ArticleFeminisms: Unitary Womb-bat
I've been thinking about wombs lately -- big sassy ones, little skinny ones, wombs decked out in all their fertile finery. Normally I'd be pondering uteruses, but right now the word womb is resonating...
View ArticleFeminisms: Femininity
Feminisms is a series of weekly feminist diaries. My fellow feminists and I decided to start our own for several purposes: we wanted a place to chat with each other, we felt it was important to both...
View ArticleFeminisms: Hillary's Two-Faced Sexism -- Gender As Shield & Sword
Gender and sexism is clearly an issue in this presidential campaign. There is no question that the media (with Mr. Tweety at the top of the list) has treated Hillary in a sexist manner, which kossacks...
View ArticleFeminisms: Good Gifts for Feminists
My family members keep asking me what I want for X-mas and I keep saying that I don't need anything because well, I don't. I don't know about you, but when I go shopping for other presents I always...
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(This'll have to be a short one tonight, since I wasn't going to post anything until an hour ago.)
View ArticleFeminisms: War is still a man's job
Back on December 7th I was reading the Chicago Sun-Times on my lunch break and I was so livid after reading this lifestyles piece I ripped it out and decided that I would share my frustration with some...
View ArticleFeminisms: One Woman's Story
Last month I volunteered to take another Feminisms slot in January, though this time without any real topic. Although I’ve had my antennae alert for any political and/or cultural news that might...
View ArticleFEMINISMS: I've been banned from a site!
This is not a can-did-ate diary... well, not really though it does have them in it.Where I intended to go with this as originally encouraged from my posting of a comment in an open thread has morphed...
View ArticleFeminisms: Open Thread
Feminisms is a series of weekly feminist diaries. My fellow feminists and I decided to start our own for several purposes: we wanted a place to chat with each other, we felt it was important to both...
View ArticleFeminisms: 30 Ways
There's a new book out about Hillary Clinton, Thirty Ways Of Looking At Hillary: Reflections By Women Writers. Susan Faludi reviews the book here. I had no intention of reading this book, and now that...
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Feminisms: The Five Letter Word
Which five letter word?Tips to Kath25 for accessing the OED and for the photos! I couldn't have done it without her!
View ArticleFeminisms: The Once and Future Feminist
What an odd honor to be asked to write tonight's Feminisms. I mean, it's not as odd as Ann Coulter being asked, or Pat Buchanan. I am a Feminist. However, I am white. I am straight. I am a man....
View ArticleFeminisms: Open Thread
Consider this a Feminisms open thread. I haven't had the time lately to actually write a Feminisms - or even think about a Feminisms topic, actually. Too much work - too much traveling.Anyway, talk...
View ArticleI Will Stay At Kos. I Will Write At Kos. I Will Read Kos.
I will continue to write at Dailykos.I will continue to read diaries at Dailykos.I will avoid diaries that only want to damage a Democratic candidate for President. I don't feel bad about not reading...
View ArticleFeminisms: Literary Heroines
I've spent years of my life with my nose buried in books. The most recent book I've opened is by Eileen Favorite, The Heroines. This novel is about a young girl - 13 - growing up in Prairie Bluff,...
View ArticleFeminisms: Stand By Your Man
I'm sure everyone has seen by now Eliot Spitzer's press conference when he first acknowledged his involvement in a prostitution ring, with his wife by his side. In an all-too-familiar ritual...
View ArticleFeminisms: Women's Rights
Often I hear people discuss women's rights as generally limited to abortion, as if our right of choice was the only right hanging in the balance in our feminist march for equal rights. The assumption...
View ArticleFeminisms: Household Labor
Feminisms is a series of weekly feminist diaries. My fellow feminists and I decided to start our own for several purposes: we wanted a place to chat with each other, we felt it was important to both...
View ArticleFeminisms: Magical Theft & Mass Confusion
In a piece on MSNBC today entitled, Do Women want to see Hillary fail?, Susan Shapiro Barash argues that women who aren't voting for Hillary want to see her fail. Why? A few reasons... Female rivalry /...
View ArticleFeminisms: Overcoming Privilege
I’ve been thinking about privilege lately. The impetus was my own privilege. I (and several others) had inadvertently supported a racist statement because I didn’t recognize the racism in it.
View ArticleFeminisms: McCain and Women
Feminisms is a series of weekly feminist diaries. My fellow feminists and I decided to start our own for several purposes: we wanted a place to chat with each other, we felt it was important to both...
View ArticleWomen Still Face Challenges: But It is Obama Not Hillary Who Will Have The...
Whenever there is a diary that tries to understand the differences in voting behavior as a generational issue I find myself jumping in with a comment: Count Me Out. I started writing this diary to a...
View ArticleFeminisms: Blame the Victim
"We've come a long way baby." This was a slogan used by a cigarette company to sell cigarettes to women. I do agree with this sentiment. I think things have changed for the better for women in my...
View ArticleFeminisms: Women Under Way
In the 1970’s the nation struggled with the concept and the reality of women athletes. As women entered sports in greater numbers, particularly after the enactment of Title IX, they didn’t find open...
View ArticleWhere's the....?
So last night, I saw a commercial on tv that shows a child looking in a closet for something, and then yelling "Mom, where's my ___?", than the husband looking for something elsewhere in the house...
View ArticleFeminisms: Rape Culture and the Presidential Election
Many commentators are rightly horrified that a current Presidential candidate might equate rape with pleasure. The account of John McCain's 1986 rape "joke" calls into question his attitudes toward...
View ArticleFeminisms: Winning Converts
So I decided pretty late tonight (as you can probably tell) that I would write a Feminisms diary. I honestly just realized that it was even Wednesday. And while Feminisms diaries don't have to appear...
View ArticleFeminisms: Lessons From Pea
I am often tempted to say that I wasn't a girly girl when I was a kid. But as Pea (my niece) climbs ever further into the ages that I can actually remember fairly clearly, I begin to recall details...
View ArticleFeminisms: Corporate Immunity From Sexual Assault
The prevalence of sexual harassment in the US is so widespread that it belittles the fact that the right to be free of sexual harassment is a human right in some states. Studies indicate that 40-70%...
View ArticleFeminisms: 2008 Election Edition
Well, it's over. I don't want to do a postmortem of the primary (long over), and I definitely don't want to write about Sarah Palin, but I would like to talk about how some of the issues and candidates...
View ArticleFeminisms: The Threat of Crisis Pregnancy Centers
Last week I wrote about election results for women - the good, the bad, and the ugly. I also wrote about the need to take our election-related excitement and direct our energy and attention to new (or...
View ArticleFeminisms: Campaign to Expose Fake Clinics (Action)
For the last two weeks I've written Feminisms diaries about the dangers of Crisis Pregnancy Centers. You can read the first post here and last week's post here. The point of these posts was to inform...
View ArticleFeminisms: Award Time
This edition of feminisms is inspired by this post at Feministe which discusses "awards" given out in Australia for egregious acts of sexism. Perhaps we can learn from the Aussies and begin our own...
View ArticleFeminisms: Women and Work (Action)
More often than not, when there's a discussion about women and work it revolves around mommy-war type arguments. Are women hurting their children by working? Are women hurting themselves and their...
View ArticleFeminisms: Designer Vaginas
I've been buying a lot of magazines lately - stuff to read at work mostly, since I'm not able to access most internet sites from work due to privacy issues. Anyway, I typically get Oprah's magazine -...
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Feminisms: Dating Rubber Dolls
Recently, sex with blow-up dolls has caught the fancy of some hardened robbers in Texas and Australia. In the Australian case, a man stole "Jungle Jane" sex dolls, blew them up, and dumped his spent...
View ArticleFeminisms: The First Bill Obama Signs - Lilly Ledbetter Act (Fair Pay)
Note: Femlaw took on this topic in a Feminisms diary just a few weeks ago, Feminisms: Act Now To Support Fair Pay.Tomorrow, President Obama will sign his first bill into law -- the Lilly Ledbetter Act....
View ArticleFeminisms: "obsessed with having kids"
I can hardly keep track of what women are supposed to do these days. Abortion is evil. And yet, "This woman could not comprehend the ramifications of having eight children of the same age at the same...
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Feminisms: Abortion Ban & Torture
The North Dakota House has passed a "personhood" bill that outlaws abortion by declaring that life begins with fertilized eggs. In the next few weeks, the Senate will vote. If passed into law, this...
View ArticleThree Diaries in one - Action, action, and Feminisms
I don't have time to write multiple diaries this week, but there are some important things that I wanted to put out there for people to take action on - and there was an odd story that I heard on NPR...
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This piece was written just about eleven years ago for the group blog Feminisms.
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