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Can’t Wait: “When Women Rule the World” (a new reality show)

July 15, 2007 in TV, feminism | No comments

Picked up from Feministing, via The Debate Link, who sees this new Fox show as a gendered twist on the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The premise:

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Seething revenge… or girlpower fun in the summer sun?

July 12, 2007 in feminism, feral women, girlpower, guerilla girls, pop snippets, revenge | No comments

Dan DeLuca has a great article in the Philadephia Inquirer, on the dominance of the revenge narrative in pop music by women.

The cultural predominance of the female revenge narrative came up continually in my class on women and pop last semester, and it seems to be a trend that emerges every few years or so– enough that it might be time to think about when the theme makes it big comebacks, over and beyond its status as a trend.

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Can’t wait: “Hey…Shorty”

June 23, 2007 in feminism, gender violence, girlpowering | 3 comments

Chloé A. Hilliard has a nice story in this week’s Village Voice, about five girls who are interns at Girls for Gender Equity in Brooklyn. They’ve made a video, inspired by Maggie Hadleigh-West’s War Zone (which is totally interesting and should be checked out as well!) Their video is titled Hey…Shorty, and is part of their larger campaign to get boys to recognize their own potential relations to gender violence and oppression–i.e. figure out that girls don’t like be yelled at on the street, or having shit thrown at them when they don’t respond…

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more on “The Problem with Feminism”

June 3, 2007 in Obamas, feminism | No comments

How funny: a few days after writing my post on Michelle Obama as a signal call to feminism, I found a guest post by Thinking Girl at Slant Truth. It’s titled, you’ve probably guessed, “The Problem with Feminism,” and it speaks in very honest and interesting ways to some of the stuff written on this site.

Check it out!

Michelle, my belle.

May 30, 2007 in Debra Dickerson, Maureen Dowd, Obamas, Obamas, feminism, performing identity, social capital, stereotypes, womanism | 3 comments

[you can sing the title with the Beatles or w/ Slick Rick, depending on your mood]

I am sure you are well-apprised of what I am going to call “The Michelle Obama feminism challenge.” But just in case, Mirror on America did a very nice post last week, outlining some of the most notable sites of contestation, particularly as they’ve been crystallized in Debra Dickerson’s recent article in Slate, and Maureen Dowd’s syndicated op-ed piece, reproduced here from the San Jose Mercury News. Racialicious also has a great post outlining the Dickerson and Dowd articles (amongst others). It’s redundant to rehearse the Racialicious and Mirror on America points, so check them out!

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recap: A “troubled” Miss Universe contest?

May 29, 2007 in Flaviana Matata, Miss America, Miss Jamaica, Miss Mexico, Miss Sweden, Miss Tanzania, Miss USA, Miss Universe, Rachel Smith, Rosa Maria Ojeda, Zahra Redwood, diversity, female perfection, feminism, political action | 1 comment

I am not much of a recapper (I don’t even like pageants!). But I’m in this thing and must fulfill my duties until the end! So here is what you officially need to know about the 2007 Miss Universe pageant:

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working out loud

May 20, 2007 in Jessica Valenti, books, feminism, girlpowering | No comments

full frontal feminismI thought my waning girlpower class might find this book interesting. It’s called Full Frontal Feminism, and it’s written by Jessica Valenti. There is an interview with Valenti on Feministing.org, and our own mw at Objectify This has a great post concerning the book’s cover. (Tween Scene, you might also be interested in mw’s post, as it takes up some of the concern you had with your post on Cindy Crawford’s daughter.)

I actually don’t have so much to say, because I haven’t read the book yet! I do want to say, however, that reading her interview made me think about how, after a semester of watching y’all emerge as public intellectuals, Read the rest of this entry »

Branching out to the UK

April 3, 2007 in feminism, gender | No comments

“Feminism Makes You Sick”

Here’s a post I just recently came across while clicking around “girlpower” links on Technorati. It’s off a UK blog called Mind the Gap.

The post discusses a recent article by Zoe Williams at the Guardian, which you will also find in my del.icio.us links on the left.

You might also want to check out some of the other articles in the Guardian’s “Special Report: Gender Issues,” where there are some pretty interesting articles relevant to your own work.

People interested in men’s issues might find this Lucy Ward article particularly interesting (and, oh!, by the way a simpatico blog at The Valley Advocate: hi Hayley!).

Women and War and others so inclined might find this Mary Riddell article of interest, as well as this post women in the miltary over at the f word blog.

And… here’s a Jacky Fleming post for you, Drawing Women!

Whew! That’s enough UK for the day!