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Caro Claire Burke on Tradwives, the Performance of Selfhood, and “The Good Old Days”
3+ hour, 7+ min ago (357+ words) Sara Petersen: What initially pulled you into the trad-o-sphere? I'd love to hear about your entry point, particularly as someone without kids. I know on a fundamental level that social media is a mass form of performative rot, and yet…...
Love Stories, Feminism, and Why Cemeteries Are Sexy
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (571+ words) When I spoke to Ann Rower on the phone in order to write this introduction, she in New York and I in Berkeley, I asked her why cemeteries always got us so hot. In the book, the narrator proposes that…...
The Myth of the Red-Lipped Suffragette
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) And it's almost certainly a total lie'and not a white one. Revisionism infuses the past with today's fashionable ideology. How would such a myth proliferate? Blame Elizabeth Arden. Not Elizabeth Arden the person'otherwise known as Florence Graham, pioneer of American…...
Feminism, Freedom and the Accusatory “You.” On Elaine Kraf’s Find Him!
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (258+ words) Find Him!, Elaine Kraf "s third novel, was first published in 1977 by the experimental author-run Fiction Collective. The book is dedicated to you. And throughout it, you, the reader, will be addressed directly, questioned, sometimes taunted by the novel"s…...
Inside Mexican Feminists’ Fight For Safe and Legal Abortion
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (67+ words) When a woman had an abortion'she was taking a step to assert her human rights and dignity, and that was a radical, and radicalizing, moment. Las Libres was claiming abortion as necessary, as a force for good, as something that…...
“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (816+ words) In 1943, M.F.K. Fisher published The Gastronomical Me, an interwar food memoir chronicling her move from the US to Dijon, by way of Strasbourg, Lausanne, Marseille, Guadalajara. At the time, food writing was a genre that neatly sat as a "women's domain…...
How Sex and the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (201+ words) But the next episode shows Carrie fretting over whether her accidentally farting in front of her boyfriend has made him lose all desire for her. I have trouble believing that any woman who has reached the age of thirty'one whose…...