A Feminist Experience of the World
When 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
Read moreI still watch Grey’s Anatomy. I haven’t missed an episode since it aired. And now that I have cancelled cable and rely on Netflix for my shows, I spend the last hour of my evening — after my grading is done,
Read moreRihanna’s “Rude Boy” belongs under one category: the Trash! When I was in High school, I had the kind of mother that played her music in the car: Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennet, Schubert, and Beethoven, to name a few, but you
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A few days ago I was flipping through the channels trying to find Dora for my daughter, and was struck in the face with yet another commercial geared for little girls between the ages of 5-11. As usual, I sat
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Sandra Oh has left Grey’s Anatomy, and frankly, she was the show; for the past nine years, I only tuned in to watch how her character, Cristina Yang, would break yet another stereotype, yet another normative female behavior. And she never failed me. Her
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My students recently asked me which movie I thought passed the Bechdel test, and without thinking, I named the only one that came to mind: Zero Dark Thirty. It’s the only movie I’ve seen that centers on a female protagonist who moves
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I was just watching the elimination process of American Idol’s 2010 show and was immediately struck by the entertainment they featured that year: Jason DeRulo, David Archuleta, and Rihanna. And because of the feminist lens through which I view events in this world
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Tim Burton’s version of 19-year-old Alice on the cusp of womanhood is full of empowering messages for today’s young women. Set during the Victorian Era in England, somewhere around 1830s -1900′s, he offers us a soft-spoken yet feisty Alice that is
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