Stories by Susan J. Douglas
Susan J. Douglas is a professor of communications at the University of Michigan and author of "The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How it Has Undermined Women."
Our culture's conflicted attitudes toward femininity (too much is weak) versus feminism (too assertive) leaves women with no place to stand.
Posted on Jul 8, 2008
The subprime fiasco is just one example of how banks profit from shady practices.
Posted on Jan 7, 2008
The
New York Times Book Review's recent nasty review of Katha Pollitt's memoir is only the latest in a long line of outlandish attacks on feminists.
Posted on Oct 24, 2007
The Democratic leadership seems somehow unable to grasp the huge gap in outrage between them and their base.
Posted on Oct 26, 2005
Credit cards manage to further impoverish the poor, the working classes and women and are rife with hidden scams that benefit the financial institutions at our expense. The Bush version of Social Security will be just like this.
Posted on Feb 26, 2005
Competition between the networks is heating up as fall approaches, but there are still plenty of undeveloped reality TV premises that producers should be jumping at.
Posted on Aug 26, 2004
Mothers have no paid maternity leave, no universal healthcare, no comprehensive after-school programs, no genuine new support of our public schools. The right to control our own reproductive lives is under total siege.
Posted on Apr 22, 2004
The Bush administration has more women in powerful positions than any in history. Unfortunately, that's nothing to cheer about.
Posted on Mar 28, 2004
Are women who stay home with their children a symbol of the failure of feminism or is this another example of capitalism run amok?
Posted on Nov 17, 2003
This summer the mainstream media is finally showing signs that it may rediscover that portion of the body known as a spine.
Posted on Aug 12, 2003
"The Bachelor" is wildly popular with women because it tells them what they need to succeed. Fifty years later, it is still beauty not brains.
Posted on Dec 2, 2002
Your TV will soon be bombared with 9/11 retrospective documentaries, but what if progressives could have an hour or two to recap the last year?
Posted on Sep 4, 2002
Postfeminism is an invention promoted most vigorously by the right, and aided and abetted all along the way by the corporate media.
Posted on May 13, 2002
Although it pays tribute to liberal humanistic values, America's favorite White House drama absolutely celebrates -- maybe even fetishizes -- workaholism.
Posted on Apr 4, 2002
Eighty percent of the hosts and a majority of those who listen to political talk radio are men. A new gender hybrid -- the male hysteric -- has emerged in these talk radio shows as a deft, desperate way to thwart feminism and take back masculine power roles.
Posted on Jun 27, 2000
