The Confidential Issue

Articles published in the print Bitch magazine issue, Confidential. Check out the complete table of contents for the issue here.

House Proud : The troubling rise of stay-at-home daughters

November 4, 2010 at 1:28pm

“Daughters aren’t to be independent. They’re not to act outside the scope  of their father. As long as they’re under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can’t just go out  independently and say, ‘I’m going to marry whoever I want.’ No. The father has  the ability to say, ‘No, I’m sorry, that has to be approved by me.’” “Daughters aren't to be independent. They're not to act outside the scope  of their father. As long as they're under the authority of their fathers, fathers have the ability to nullify or not the oaths and the vows. Daughters can't just go out  independently and say, 'I'm going to marry whoever I want.'...

Remote Control: Media activist Jennifer L. Pozner talks back to TV

by Shira Tarrant

November 4, 2010 at 1:21pm

I'm meeting up with journalist, media critic, and activist Jennifer L. Pozner at a chic West Village doughnut café. As Pozner strolls in on a pair of Marc Jacobs platform slingbacks, she casually tosses her Kooba tote over the back of the patio chair. Her floppy- brimmed Prada hat catches a... Read more »

Past Imperfect: The Feminine Mystique and the persistence of nostalgia

by Eryn Loeb

November 4, 2010 at 12:52pm

In a sweetly musty used-book-store, I recently bought a few thick, oversize issues of Good Housekeeping and Ladies' Home Journal. Dating from the early 1950s, they were full of ads for Del Monte fruit cocktail (serving suggestion: use it to top a loaf of canned ham, for something “really... Read more »