Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

My Bookslut review of An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin was added to the amazing Lady Journos — dedicated to closing the byline gender gap!

Read my entire review of Peggy Orenstein’s fourth book about princess culture on Bookslut.

Peggy Orenstein’s fourth book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, chronicles the author’s journey through America’s princess culture with her young daughter, Daisy. Beginning with Disney princesses, Orenstein comes to examine American Girl dolls, the “tween” market, Miley Cyrus, social media, beauty pageants, and of course, Barbie, all in the united effort to best understand the decisions she is making for her daughter. Acknowledging early on in Cinderella Ate My Daughter the tumultuous battlefield of potential body issues, poor self-esteem, rampant sexism, and gender essentialist impositions, Orenstein opens her book with an awareness for the road ahead in raising a girl.

Read my entire review of Jennifer Pozner’s critical take on reality TV on Bookslut.

Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth About Guilty Pleasure TV is the debut book by Women in Media & News founder and feminist journalist Jennifer L. Pozner. An established media critic and leader of media literacy workshops, Pozner has compiled nearly ten years of analysis and research of recent reality shows such as The Millionaire Matchmaker, America’s Next Top Model, and The Real Housewives series, all the way back to Survivor and The Bachelor. Pozner unpacks these guilty pleasure shows with an eye for sexism, racism, misrepresentations of LGBTQ individuals, and canned messages about romantic relationships and gender dynamics.

Read my interview with video remix artist, Elisa Kreisinger, creator of QueerCarrie and Queer Housewives of NYC, on The Daily BR!NK.

Since Sarah Palin & Co stuck the Republican flag in feminism and started touting the movement for their own political advances, I’ve been paying close attention to how the media has described this appropriation. The call outs in magazines, online media, and blogs that have been covering this “movement” usually cycle through the following phrases: “new feminism,” “conservative feminism,” “Sarah Palin’s conservative feminism,” or “right-wing feminism.”

Read this entire post on Feministing.