Dig Deep: Beyond Lean In. By bell hooks Editors’ Note: Though some of the fanfare surrounding Sheryl Sandberg (of Facebook and Lean In fame) has died down, Sandberg is back with her neoliberal feminism, or what bell hooks describes below as “faux feminism.”
After weeks of traveling the nation hawking books (and thousands upon thousands sold), amid endless celebration, debate, and criticism, Sandberg and her corporate feminism seek to cover even more territory. Bustle.com Conjures Every Terrible Feeling Women in Media Have About Women’s Media. There’s already been time for the launch, reception of, and backlash against the new women’s website Bustle.com and its founder, Bryan Goldberg.
Somewhere in some distant and undoubtedly frightening corner of the internet, there may already be a backlash against the backlash. The basic premise is a simple, stupid, and unfortunately familiar one: a man decided to do something for women and finally do it RIGHT, dad gum it, ignoring that there were already women doing this thing, and despite his own total cluelessness about the topic at hand. The man in this case is Bryan Goldberg, founder of the also not-great media outlet Bleacher Report. bryan goldberg knows how to save women’s media.
Politics. Sex-Positive Feminism. Sex work and Porn. Slutwalk. Choice Feminism. Rape Cases & Rape Culture. Womens Healthcare. How Do You Practice Intersectionalism? An Interview with bell hooks. This interview was conducted by Randy Lowens, the pen name of Don Jennings, who passed away March 8, 2012, in Richmond, Kentucky.
In lieu of flowers the Family request contributions to any public library in Don’s memory. Randy: We're interviewing bell hooks, author of Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center; Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations and numerous other titles. You're known to be a prolific author: do you have a personal favorite? Black Women Are Standing in A Crooked Room. Oh god here we go, I said I'd stay away from race topics on Jez, but I though about this on the train and I felt like I needed to say this for a long time: I'm Hilary Banks.
Our physical resemblance is uncanny (really!) , but beyond that I've lived a very, very, very charmed life like her. I feel like there's a lot of us, and we've been around since the placées of post civil war New Orleans. I sometimes feel, ok I always feel, that our narrative is confusing to a lot of people. Where do we fit? Three faces of feminism: Louise Mensch, Laurie Penny, and Jodie Marsh « Libertarian Lou's Blog.
Last night, two white middle-class women – Conservative MP Louise Mensch, and left-wing activist Laurie Penny – sat on BBC Newsnight with Jeremy Paxman, discussing Louise Mensch’s article in the Guardian, about whether you could be a feminist and also a Tory.
Exciting stuff, I think you’ll agree. Roughly 765.94 watched these two feminists fighting over who represents women the best, which, by the standards of programs-about-feminism, is not bad going. Jodie Marsh was not on Newsnight, of course.
Feminist Documentaries/Movies. Articles/Books By and About Women. Petitions and Women's Organisations. Disproving Gender Stereotypes. Men and Feminism. Birth control for men. Gender Neutral Parenting. Representation of Women In the Media. Antifeminism. History of Feminism. Female Leaders. Feminism & Gender Studies. GEA – Gender and Education Association The period of activism in the early 20th century around securing the vote for women has been called the first wave of the feminist movement.
The second wave refers to the activism beginning in the 1960s. The second wave is associated with the publication of books like Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique and Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, with consciousness-raising groups, campaigning around wages for housework, abortion rights, sexual harassment, domestic violence, childcare and many other issues and with the slogan ‘the personal is political’. Second wave feminists had a huge impact on education. They distinguished between sex (the biological differences between men and women) and gender (the social and cultural differences).
Feminism and Education. By its very nature, feminism studies what feminists perceive to be a male-dominated society where historically girls and women have been ‘kept in their place’ while men have dominated areas such as politics, education, the military etc.
How has feminism impacted education and schooling? In the past girls have academically underachieved. Woman's Education According to Rousseau and Wollstonecraft. Essay that discusses Jean Jacques Roussea and Mary Wollstonecraft's views toward the education of women, highlighting the "novel" idea that men and women should be educated together.
"Give, without scruples, a woman's education to women, see to it that they love the cares of their sex, that they possess modesty, that they know how to grow old in their mnage and keep busy in their house. " Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile. Feminism and Multicultural Education: Issues of Feminism and Multicultural Education for Educational Technology Donna J.
Martin, Linda E. Education and Feminism.