A Feminist Experience of the World
There are only 5 things this feminist wants for Christmas, and they are not monetary, vain, or tangible. They are wishes and hopes and desires that I find are missing in society. They are necessary for the enlightenment and empowerment
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Being thanful for 5 Books about female experiences and feminism that have helped me grow into my own authentic self.
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bell hooks used theory, especially feminist theory, in the same way that most of us use literature. She believed that theory was a liberatory process, and the reason most of us lean on literature as much as we do is because
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After watching Battle of the Sexes with Emma Stone and Steven Carrell, it was obvious that the real battle Billie Jean King had to fight was to be taken seriously as a female tennis player. At one point in the
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This past episode of Grey’s Anatomy is pivotal in reimagining rape survivors’ experiences and exposing the underbelly of our rape culture.
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Dear Jane is a debut novel that demonstrates the power one book and one literary character have in saving the life of a young girl trying to survive neglect, abuse, and suicide ideation.
Read moreThe following is an infographic from Rehabs.com and their post on “Dying to be Barbie,” which focuses on Barbie and how the physical endowments of the doll influence eating disorders among girls and women as well as self-loathing and body
Read moreChristy Starr and Gail Ferguson, psychologists at Knox College, Illinois, co-wrote an article that gained a huge readership on the web recently. They conducted a study in which they interviewed sixty girls between the ages of 6 and 9. The
Read moreWhen Laura Mulvey coined the phrase “the male gaze” in her “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” paper back in 1975, it was to reveal the ways in which images of women in film are reduced to objects subjected to a
Read moreWatching the newest Disney movie, Moana, was very much like watching women pounding their fists against glass ceilings in feeble attempts to be heard as they follow their instincts for solving real-life problems. Moana is a young Princess from the
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