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Ladies Talkin' 'bout Sex
Throughout recent history, society at large has stereotyped ladyfolk as demure and pure certainly not interested in The Sex (save for sluts, a shameful variety of the ladyfolk who *gasp* enjoy having sex, sometimes even before or outside of marriage). Well, the female musicians and bands that... Read more »
Adventures in Feministory: Johnnie Tillmon and the Welfare Rights Movement
The Welfare Rights movement of the sixties and seventies rarely receives the amount of historical attention it deserves, and as a grassroots movement that addressed class, race, gender, and consumption issues all at once. Although made up of thousands of women around the country, Johnnie Tillmon... Read more »
Sprite Ad Is Overblown
So what do you have to do to get an ad banned in Germany? Simulate oral sex, apparently.
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Catching Up with Red's Teen Girl Writers
In 2008, 58 teenage girls published their take on body image, family, politics, and pop culture in the anthology Red: Teenage Girls in America Write on What Fires Up Their Lives Today. Page Turner caught up with five of them to talk about feminism, teen-girl falsehoods, and what’s happened... Read more »
How Could $3 Million for Postpartum Research Hurt Women?
A landmark federal bill aiming to put $3 million into research and education about postpartum depression is gathering controversy as it heads to the Senate floor. Advocates of the Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act (known as the... Read more »
Sotomayor and Dr. Benjamin in the Media: An Open Thread
As the hearings for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor continue, media coverage has ranged from the good, the... Read more »
Changing Beauty Standards With a Scalpel
Empowerment through repulsion? Or brilliantly contrived self-transformation?
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Mr. Mia Hamm
I had to take a screen shot of this ad on Facebook.
Do you see that? A six-time All-Star baseball player is being referred to as Mr. Mia Hamm.
Yes, when I saw it I yelled "Hell yeah!" It's overwhelming how often we hear of prominent women who get referred to as Mrs. Whomever She Married. Or even... Read more »
Rave On: Jennifer Baumgardner on The Girls Who Went Away
Welcome to “Rave On,” a new Page Turner series that asks feminist writers, artists, musicians, activists, leaders, and scholars to talk about a book that completely rocked their world. Our series kicks off with writer Jennifer Baumgardner, who raves about The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History... Read more »
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