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Breast Intentions: Of Violence, Advertising and Lingerie
In both a national and global context where the rates of domestic violence against women are consistently soaring (according to the United Nations Population Fund Report, more 55 percent of women living in India face violence within the home), awareness campaigns and messages which seek to... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Boozing It Up in the Animal Kingdom
That many nonhuman animals seem to have a taste for alcohol is often used as support for the claim that the desire for intoxication is universal, though some stories—like those about elephants getting drunk on fermented marula fruit—have been disputed by scientists, who note elephants actually eat... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: Fujitsu's Feminine Laptops, Because Pink and Purple Pens weren't Enough
Back in August, our web editor commented on the sexism of the “BIC for Her” feminine pen debacle. She opened her blog with the quip: “Thank God I’m... Read more »
Political Party: Celebrate Good (Election) Times, Come on!
That hangover you’re nursing right now was worth it: Feminists have a lot to celebrate! Not only did women crush it last night (... Read more »
No More Boobs in the British News?
Attempts to rid British newspaper The Sun of its topless ‘Page 3 Girls’ have always failed in the past, with feminists’ concerns dismissed as prudery and jealousy. Could a new campaign be about to succeed where others have failed? And what issues does this raise for feminists?
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Lady Liquor: Getting Out the Vote, Filling Up the Hip Flask, and Teaching Little Johnny to Drink
Once women got the right to vote, they didn’t consistently vote dry – in part because an unintended consequence of Prohibition (working in tandem with the social and economic aftermath of World War I) was that for the first time in U.S. history, drinking was no longer the exclusive... Read more »
Vote 'Em If You Got 'Em: Links For Your Election Day!
Well, the attack ads are over, the convention floors have long been empty, and the event we’ve all been anticipating/dreading for what feels like our entire lives is finally upon us: It’s Election Day!
To get you ready for your big day at the polls, we’ve put together... Read more »
What Republicans Can Learn about Marriage from Call the Midwife. (Plus: A giveaway!)
Ah, marriage. It’s a preoccupation with Republicans: the destruction of it, sex outside of it, the redefinition of it. Promoting marriage was a significant part of the Bush administration’s domestic-policy agenda, presumably in an attempt to protect women from the horrors of birth... Read more »
Lady Liquor: Temperance, suffrage and the matter of strange bedfellows
The pairing of women’s suffrage and Prohibition always seemed to me like another quirky historical coupling, an example of the same group of people simultaneously favoring a critical common-sense idea (universal suffrage) and an unbelievably naïve, moralistic solution to society’s... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Donna Brazile, the First Woman of Color Presidential Campaign Director
Early in the morning of November 8, 2000, Donna Brazile sent a text to then–presidential candidate Al Gore. The... Read more »
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