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lithub.com > caro-claire-burke-on-tradwives-the-performance-of-selfhood-and-the-good-old-days

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…...

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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…...

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lithub.com > the-myth-of-the-red-lipped-suffragette

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…...

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lithub.com > feminism-freedom-and-the-accusatory-you-on-elaine-krafs-find-him

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…...

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lithub.com > inside-mexican-feminists-fight-for-safe-and-legal-abortion

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…...

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lithub.com > fidelity-to-both-pleasure-and-humiliation-on-m-f-k-fishers-feminist-realism

“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…...

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lithub.com > how-sex-and-the-city-exemplifies-late-20th-century-feminist-despair

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…...