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On AlterNet: femininity

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "femininity"

Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

Damned If Feminine, Damned If Feminist

Susan J. Douglas, In These Times. July 8, 2008.
Our culture's conflicted attitudes toward femininity (too much is weak) versus feminism (too assertive) leaves women with no place to stand.

Feminism Keeps My Marriage Together

Feminism Keeps My Marriage Together

Christie Church, Girlistic Magazine. March 26, 2008.
Feminism helps us face the challenge of being complex people in a society that reduces us to pink and blue.

Bush's Budget Shortchanges Women

Bush's Budget Shortchanges Women

Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine. February 19, 2008.
Government budget plans overlook the needs of women. The solution? Gender-budgeting.

Is Feminism Compatible with the Kitchen?

Is Feminism Compatible with the Kitchen?

Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. February 19, 2008.
The idea that liberated women don't prepare food -- because they are too busy having sex and building their careers -- is just plain wrong.

Does Susan Faludi's Terror Dream Oversimplify Post-9/11 America?

Does Susan Faludi's Terror Dream Oversimplify Post-9/11 America?

Bree Nordenson, Columbia Journalism Review. December 12, 2007.
Faludi loads a lot of conclusions on a thin strand of history.

"Women Center Stage" Festival To Provide Some Much Needed Balance to Macho Media

Don Hazen, AlterNet. June 20, 2007.
This summer, at a time when the media is dominated by bombastic male voices, New York City's Culture Project's multidisciplined festival of women voices provides a welcome antidote.