The other night, I watched a Frontline special called "The Warning" from 2009. Immediately I thought this was a bad idea, but even without understanding all the economic and market terms and lingo you can easily understand the message and the end result of the interviews. The reason we are in a recession started ten [...]
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Women and Social Networks in Congress
You may have missed this article, because it didn’t make the front page. It didn’t even make the first fifteen pages of the New York Times. To remedy this, I suggest you read Jennifer Steinhauer’s "Among Women in Congress, a Bond of Friendship." Steinhauer begins by describing the hospital room where Gabrielle Giffords first awoke [...]
Catcalling and Gang Rape: The Manifestations of Global Gender Discrimination
Angelique’s village was invaded in the middle of the night. She was tied up and suspended between two trees, her legs spread wide apart. Seven men violently plunged themselves into her before she passed out from severe, torturous pain. Later, they shoved sticks up her ruined and ravaged vagina. She developed a medical condition that [...]
The End of Marriage
I recently finished reading Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert, a mere 11 months after it came out – a true feat for me. It was hardly what I’d expected, an interesting read, and possibly not the best idea for someone so neutral on marriage to be reading. I felt myself saying, “Yes! I agree – exactly [...]
Feminism Is As Feminism Does
By Merle Hoffman, cross-posted at On The Issues Magazine All my life there was a kind of disconnect between my internal and external realities. "Funny," people would say, "you don’t look Jewish. Funny, you don’t look like a concert pianist. Funny—you don’t look like a feminist." But I was all of those things and more. [...]
Tweeting feminists exploring feminism and social media
After three months of extensive research and interviews, this is the final installment of my Ryerson University School of Journalism final year project exploring feminism and social media. The online estrogen revolution Sitting in her backyard in Tampa, FL., Angie Jackson is filming a YouTube video on her laptop. Looking directly into her webcam, she [...]
Work-Life Fit is an Enterprise 2.0 Solution
This headline could be puzzling… What could possible make Work-Life Fit and Enterprise 2.0 relevant to each other? After all, one is a challenge of the modern workplace, and the other is a challenge to the modern workplace. They come together because both concepts ask us to redesign our organizations. Although Enterprise 2.0 and Work-Life [...]
The 2000s: Favorite Feminist Moments in Television
Ever since I read Susan J. Douglas’ Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female With the Mass Media when I was 17, I have found myself searching in television and film for the nuggets of feminism that women can now find in popular culture. As the ’00 decade concludes, quite a bit of feminist gold [...]
Bridging the Political Divide: How Do We Involve the “Common (Feminist) Voter?”
Democracies are run by those who show up. Which is why Tryce Czyczynska’s article on the low turnout for Stop Stupak rallies last week is more than a little bit troubling. Czyczynska observed that those who attended the rally in San Diego were largely seasoned political activists: Of the 80 to 90 attendees, too many [...]
The First of All Liberties: Making Health Care Meet All Women’s Needs
By Eesha Pandit; posted with permission from On The Issues Magazine (thanks for cross-posting with us!) *Note from Fem2.0: Did you catch NWLC’s November 4 carnival for healthcare reform? Check out their widgets, donate to get t-shirts and bumper stickers and tell Congress to pass healthcare legislation that respects women’s and families’ needs. For more, check [...]