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Corseted Up: Victorian Ideals Are Still Binding up Women
A woman who meets the world with intensity is a woman who endures lashes of shame and disapproval.
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Siren Songs: Nina MacLaughlin on Revisiting the Women of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses”
In Wake, Siren, Ovid’s women emerge as unique individuals, fully formed and very often full of anger.
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Binding Harm: Generations of Witches Intertwine Rituals and Activism
To be a witch is to have and to exercise agency on behalf of all.
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Dicks in a Box: The Enduring Fear of Penis-Snatching Witches
Castration anxiety is the unidentified main character in fantastical stories about penis-stealing witches.
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Finite Love: What Lesbian Period Dramas Lose When We Project Our Fears on Them
Films and television series featuring queer characters are still relatively scarce.
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Weapons of Mass Distraction: The Bikini Turned Sexuality into a Threat
From the moment it debuted, the bikini was a scandal.
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Bad Mouths: The Long History of Sanitizing Women’s Language
Many of us think of washing someone’s mouth out with soap as an outdated punishment for ill-tempered children, but for a long time it was also commonplace as a corrective for women.
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8 Ways to Reclaim Mother’s Day
The founder of Mother’s Day was a righteous, anti-capitalist activist.
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What 17th Century Witch Burnings Teach Us About Evangelical Extremism
The descendants of those brought up amid the height of the witch-burning craze who became among the first to colonize settlements like Salem, Massachusetts, continuing the misogynistic and prejudiced witch trials in the United States.
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Vivien Green Fryd Charts the Feminist Artists Who’ve Painted #MeToo for Decades
Against Our Will challenges us to witness without looking away, exploring sexual violence as a discrete subject of American art with unflinching analysis.
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