feminism

Both in the real and cyber worlds, I have always had a tough time engaging with Western liberal feminist narratives. There is an element of betrayal there that I have never managed to forgive. A couple of years ago, I sent the following email to some people I knew in the real world that sums up my problem [context irrelevant]. [...] growing up immigrant and colored means experiencing firsthand that the feminist movement is made visible by the most priviledged among us. I cannot count the...Read Full Story

Jessica Valenti, Co-founder and Executive Editor of Feministing.com In this week’s installment of our Women Making History series, I am thrilled to present Feministing.com founder Jessica Valenti ! In addition to starting the popular feminist blog and online community, Jessica has authored three books and co-founded the REAL hot 100 , a campaign that recognizes the important work of young women across the country. Jessica took time between speaking on college campuses to talk about how she...Read Full Story

girlsgetbusyzine : After last week’s article —”Why Feminism Is the Anti-Viagra”—likened feminism to actual boner-killing, we’ve noticed that Psychology Today has been particularly hard on the women’s movement over the past few years, blaming it for everything from unhappiness to sexual harassment to just plain evilness. Here, we collect some of its greatest hits of He-Man Woman Haters posts. 1.) Why modern feminism is illogical, unnecessary, and evil by Satoshi Kanazawa Modern...Read Full Story

By Christine Stansell Modern Library The appropriate feminist response to The Feminist Promise is to send truckloads of gratitude to Christine Stansell, professor of history at the University of Chicago, who collected and digested a vast array of material, much of it ephemeral, and put it in a history book. Some of us hang on to the materials of history—like Laura Murra and my late friend Arlene Meyers, who preserved so much of the material base of second wave feminism as it was happening...Read Full Story

By Courtney E. Martin & J. Courtney Sullivan Seal Press Seeking inspiration for a novel she was writing a few years ago, J. Courtney Sullivan sent an email to several friends asking them, “What was the moment that made you a feminist? Was there one person, event, book, or idea that made it happen?” The conversation that followed was so fruitful that she decided to keep it going, and Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists was born. In Click , editors Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan...Read Full Story