feminism

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/26/2022
  

  Just Wear Your Smile: The Gender Politics of Positive Psychology

  by Micki McElya

  Positive Psychology, a supposed science of producing happiness, is part of a multibillion-dollar publishing market. Unfortunately, it's helped enshrine patriarchal values into the popular practice of psychology. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/15/2022
  

  Barbara Ehrenreich's Legacy is More than "Nickel and Dimed"

  by Lynne Segal

  The late writer's contributions to keeping a current of socialist radicalism in the feminist movement deserve recognition, too. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/7/2022
  

  Stories of Women's Comeuppance Expose Cruelty at Heart of Modern Society

  by Sarah Horowitz

  Like Anna Delvey and Elizabeth Holmes today, the 1909 trial of Marguerite Steinheil in Paris focused on an ambitious woman as a villain, but revealed a wider climate of impunity and self-dealing among elite men. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  9/1/2022
  

  A Return to the 1960s "Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women"?

  by Lina-Maria Murillo

  Women acting on principles of mutual aid have worked to make information about reproductive health, including terminating pregnancies, available even at risk of legal punishment. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/16/2022
  

  Feminism Can't Ignore the Power of Sexual Freedom

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

  A half century later, the "sex wars" that split second-wave feminists remain resonant in a society where the display of sexuality sits uneasily with women's ability to pursue desire on their own terms. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/10/2022
  

  Eve Babitz's Archive Reveals the Person Behind the Persona

  by Kevin Dettmar

  "What could the personal documents of a writer who was so public about her private world teach us about her work? How much of that persona was a performance and how much a reflection of her real anxieties and ambitions?"

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/8/2022
  

  How Toxic is Masculinity, and Whose Job Is it to Fix It?

  Historian Ivan Jablonka's history of the idea of patriarchy suggests that feminists should recognize the current wave of male grievance as an opportunity to renegotiate the entire social compact of gender that has been built up over centuries of male power. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2022
  

  "Mrs. Frank Leslie" Grew a Media Empire and Bankrolled the Women's Movement

  Betsy Prioleau's book details the scandalous life and political impact of Mrs. Frank Leslie, who legally changed her name to that of her late husband and built a publishing empire. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Targeting the Marginalized for Political Gain is Nothing New in Texas Politics

  by Nancy Beck Young

  Minority groups have often had a perilous existence in Texas, but that hasn't stopped politicians from attacking them as dire threats to the state's moral fabric. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/8/2022
  

  Restore the Radical Origins of International Womens Day

  by Tiana U. Wilson

  International Women's Day didn't always center on tech executives issuing platitudes from Dubai. The needs of women today require recovering the day's roots in international labor and anticolonial movements. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/3/2022
  

  Hating Motherhood

  by Judith Levine

  Feminist thought that has questioned "the inexorable tie between mothers and children" and imagined women's lives without motherhood have been the "demon texts" of the movement; 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/22/2022
  

  How Black Feminists Defined Abortion Rights

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  Arguments in the Dobbs case have privileged the concerns of affluent, professional women – hardly the Mississippians whose lives will be affected by the state's draconian abortion bans. The abortion rights movement needs to return to its roots in racial and economic justice. 

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• SOURCE: Wired
  2/8/2022
  

  Women in Tech have been Pulling the Second Shift for Decades

  “The greatest trick that capitalism ever pulled was convincing the world that what women do in the home isn’t work,” says Joy Rankin, a historian of computing.

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  2/7/2022
  

  Nevertheless, She Lifted: A Feminist Revisionist History of Exercise

  Danielle Friedman's new book on exercise culture reads against the grain to argue that fitness has allowed women to exercise strength and push against social limits. A reviewer finds this compelling but only half the story. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/25/2022
  

  Abortion isn't a "Choice" without Racial Justice

  by Sara Matthiesen

  The recent failure of the broad social spending initiatives of Build Back Better and the impending judicial overthrow of Roe are connected, and signal the need for a movement for reproductive freedom that goes beyond "choice" to address systemic inequalities. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/13/2022
  

  New Book Asks if Exercise is a Path to Power for Women

  Danielle Freedman's new book identifies the paradox of exercise for women: the subversive potential of training, strengthening and developing the capability of the body is yoked to an exploitative diet and beauty culture.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  12/16/2021
  

  bell hooks, feminist and cultural critic, dead at 69

  Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Min Jin Lee, award-winning author and former student of hooks, about the legacy hooks leaves behind.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/14/2021
  

  Linda McAlister, Founder of Feminist Philosophy Journal Hypatia, Dies at 82

  "Dr. McAlister was adamant that the journal be called Hypatia, for the fourth-century Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer and Neoplatonist philosopher who was skinned alive and burned by Christian zealots outraged by her pagan beliefs."

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  12/15/2021
  

  bell hooks Leaves Legacy of Feminist Thought Embracing and Embraced by Black Women

  by Anthea Butler

  "I’m among the generation of teachers who were influenced by her thinking and by her admonition that 'popular culture is where the pedagogy is, where the learning is'."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/7/2021
  

  Orwell Estate Approves Feminist Retelling of "1984"

  "Orwell’s estate said it had been “looking for some time” for an author to tell the story of Smith’s lover, and that [Sandra] Newman, who has previously been longlisted for the Women’s prize and shortlisted for the Guardian first book award, 'proved to be the perfect fit'."