feminism
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1972 NYT Article About Feminism
Thanks for the ILL staff at UCF for tracking down this great 1972 article about feminism that I will be using in my upcoming women and politics book. One source mentioned that a woman would never be president.
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Our Mad Men Book: Teen Vogue’s List of Feminist Books
I was thrilled to see that our Mad Men book was included on Teen Vogue’s list of top feminist books.
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Did Feminism Kill Home Cooking?
Some critics have blamed feminism for the lack of home cooking today and the increased reliance on convenience food. (Isn’t it sad that feminism is blamed for so much and rarely given credit for what feminism helped women achieve.) Perhaps the most vocal of these was food writer Michael Pollan who wrote in a 2009 essay in the New York Times. He wrote that one of the reasons that women do not cook was that women went to work. In his New York Times essay, he also described Betty Friedan’s 1963 The Feminine Mystiqueas the book that taught millions of American women to regard housework, cooking included, as drudgery, indeed…
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A New Wave of Women’s Pages
I am working on a response to a column that ran over the summer: A New Wave of Women’s Pages. In it, the writer noted: “gloated a bit the day I noticed The Washington Post’s She the People blog finally did away with the smear of lipstick beneath the “She” in its logo. Though I had nothing to do with the change, I so despised that little swipe of red texture. However its disappearance came about, it felt like a victory.” My response will be related to the chapter I am working on for our Mad Men & Women book: Lipstick was never the enemy. The column is insightful but…
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Roxcy Bolton, Gender & Naming Hurricanes
This is the first week of the hurricane season and the potential names have been announced. The list includes male and female names. That wasn’t always the case. Prior to the Women’s Liberation Movement, hurricanes were only named for women. Miami feminist Roxcy Bolton (pictured below) played a central role in changing the policy. She got tired of reading headlines about hurricanes with women’s names destroying communities. Instead, she suggested that hurricanes be named for senators – since they like to name things after themselves. Roxcy put up a significant fight with government officials. By 1979, the policy was changed to alternate women and men’s names when it came to…
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My Talk at Duke University
Here is a link to my talk at Duke University. It’s called “Robin Morgan & Marie Anderson: Women’s Pages and the Women’s Liberation Movement.” Marie Anderson was the longtime women’s page editor at the Miami Herald – and an alum of Duke University. I will be at Duke University to go through the papers of feminist Robin Morgan – pictured above. I am curious about her interactions with women’s page journalists.
