As someone who was deeply moved by the Beauty Myth when I came out, I have been conflicted, and a bit confused, by Naomi Wolf’s recent, seemingly anti-feminist positions. I think this articulate letter is emblematic of the disappointment many young feminists are feeling. It’s worth a read: http://feministing.com/2011/01/18/dear-naomi-an-open-letter-from-a-heartbroken-young-feminist/#more-29091 -Nicole
When I was 21, the man I was madly in love with turned to me and said ruefully, “I mean, what I can do that you can’t do? I don’t know what I’m supposed to be. What’s the point of being a guy”? I seem to recall that we were moving boxes, and I was […]
A new study of Harvard grads shows “Among highly educated women who take time off from their careers to raise their children, women with M.B.A.’s suffer the largest percentage “mommy penalty,” while those with medical degrees suffer the lowest proportionate loss, with female Ph.D.’s and lawyers falling somewhere in between.” The study finds “female M.B.A.’s who […]
Really interesting interview with Stephanie Coontz about her new book, A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s, about the Feminine Mystique and its legacy (you can read the first chapter of the Feminine Mystique in Session 2 of Turn the Page). Her argument that feminism was good […]
This is a must read. Much of it rings true to me, but the “boys will be boys” thinking about sexually aggressive behavior – that men and women are different sexual beings, and that for men, the impulse to degrade and be aggressive toward women can’t be removed from the male sexual fantasies and acts […]
Are men and women fundamentally and biologically different? Cordelia Fine debunks the widespread notion that mens’ and womens’ brains are very different. She posits that society, not biology creates difference. (See Session 3 in Turn the Page Kit for more) Read and Listen here: http://www.onpointradio.org/2011/01/gender-brain-new -Fran
Today we’re launching a new project to encourage informed and important conversations about how gender roles and expectations are changing and we’re excited to share it with you. Please join us by using our discussion group kit, Turn the Page. You can also read our materials and comment or give us your feedback. Over the […]
Drum roll please! From the “things we already know without scientific evidence” category: Women’s tears are not a turn on to men. (Gasp). Every straight man I know has found the nature of this discovery to be, well, hilariously unsurprising, although researchers appear to be a bit puzzled. What interests me most about this study, […]
