This past week, I had the privilege of attending two conferences about women’s rights – the CARE National Conference and Celebration and the Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Feminist Leadership Conference. Both conferences featured keynote speakers and issue advocacy workshops, and then culminated in a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill. While the conferences touched [...]
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Reading Materials The new book "Chick Lit and Postfeminism " by Dr. Stephanie Harzewski examines bestsellers such as Bridget Jones’ Diary, The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City though the microscope of gender relations in the modern UK and USA. For more information, click here. Ntozake Shang in her new book "For Colored Girls" is [...]
Why Victim-Blaming Hurts: My Story
Earlier this week, the New York Times was rightly criticized for victim-blaming and overall bad reporting in a story about the gang-rape of an 11-year-old girl in Cleveland, Texas. The reporter, James C. McKinley, seems preoccupied with what the survivor wore, who she hung out with, and whether her mother was keeping a close watch—the [...]
Independent Women
Yesterday, I read a blog post on Maria Shriver’s website by Lindsay Schnaidt, who writes that women are too independent. Conveniently enough, I’d been reading a chapter in When Everything Changed, about marriage in the 1950s. It put me in an interesting position to compare the two worlds. Sixty years ago, women would not have [...]
A Noticeable Absence: Women in the Media on IWD
Yesterday, March 8, was International Women’s Day (IWD). On this day, groups around the world celebrated women in general and specifically, our political and social accomplishments. Happily, I follow feminist blogs and Twitter accounts that alerted me to this fact. Otherwise, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have known about it. I checked the New York [...]
Victims or Agents? Carla Koppell on the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
Anybody who pays even the slightest attention to the world around them has a right to sometimes be a little confused about the lives women lead. In America, we see news about women earning more Bachelor’s degrees than men while simultaneously being bombarded with words and images that portray women as mindless sex objects. Internationally, [...]
Roots of Collective Bargaining
Cross-posted with permission from Madama Ambi "The boss is hurrying the life out of me." Rose Cohen and her father immigrated from Czarist Russia to the tenements of New York City, working exhausting schedules under harsh conditions to survive and to send for the rest of the family. In this podcast, I read an excerpt [...]
what about this weekend
Reading Materials: March 8th is International Women’s Day and here’s thirteen books we suggest you read on women’s equality–where real progress is being made and how far we have come. For more information click here. The new book by French-based actor/writer Darina Al-Joundi, is a memoir about her life. She talks about the reality of [...]
Women’s History Month Reading List
Every year for Women’s History Month, I read a book about women. I started this my first year out of college, when I was given, America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates & Heroines, by Gail Collins. If you haven’t read it, please do. It was a great way to remind me how far [...]
Women’s Health Issues: News from This Week
It’s only Wednesday, and already, this has not been a good week for women’s health. As many of you know, the Planned Parenthood defunding debate continues. Sen. Schumer called H.R. 3 "dead on arrival" in the Senate, but pro-life Republicans show no sign of relenting. The New York Times has dubbed this a war on [...]