|
|
WorksREVIEWS: Bookslut July 31, 2007 Small Spiral Notebook July 30, 2007 Powells.com July 22, 2007 Mothers Movement Online July 2007 New York Observer June 19, 2007 On Campus with Women June 2007 Library Journal, starred review May 1, 2007 INTERVIEWS: Mojo Mom Podcast July 7, 2007 Feministing June 30, 2007 ChicagoMoms June 26, 2007 Center for New Words June 12, 2007 AlterNet June 12, 2007 EXCERPT: "The Movement without a Name" (excerpt from the introduction reprinted on Mothers Movement Online) VIDEO CLIPS: YouTube: Excerpt of reading at Cody's in Berkeley FORA.tv: Full talk and reading FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: Older and younger feminists are often depicted at odds, with elder feminists cast as relics of a bygone era and younger feminists portrayed as unaware and ungrateful of the work their mothers did. In fact, as Deborah Siegel points out in SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, younger women are not abandoning the movement, but reinventing it. With a vengeance....SISTERHOOD, INTERRUPTED is a history of feminism from the so-called bra burners to the bloggers and a compelling protest that the generations are more alike than they are different. In this collection of original, frank, personal accounts, some of today’s most celebrated writers reveal the pleasures, peculiarities, and pain they faced growing up without siblings. They air dirty laundry, reveal singular joys, grapple with questions of love, loss, solitude—and what it really means to be a party of one. Read, hear, see more: Women's Media Center The movie failed to offer the revisionist perspective falsely promised by director Kevin Lima. But the heartbreak was deeper still. Purported to turn Disney conventions on their head, the film’s regressive sexual politics parlay a message to girls that’s more noxious than the singing squirrels in Andalasia (the two-dimensional fairy tale land in which the plot begins). It’s the treatment of a minor character, Nancy (Idina Menzel), I’m talking about. [Spoiler Alert] Nancy is a 3D-world single woman set to marry sensitive superdad Robert (Patrick Dempsey) who suddenly, in the movie’s closing minutes, lands “happily ever after” in Andalasia married to a narcissistic cartoon prince instead. Huffington Post This weekend I attended a reading of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot, by Naomi Wolf, and finished Susan Faludi's new book, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America. Perhaps it is no coincidence that, within months of each other, two of the most prominent feminist voices of the 1990s have hit the ground running with stirring takes on the social, political, and cultural fallout of 9/11. Who better to expose the myths and media narratives that have justified the increasing power of a Cowboy President, gun slinging blusters on a global scale, and the erosion of democratic rule of law here at home than feminist critics? Psychology Today Henry Kissinger may have been right: Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Powerful men seek powerful wives. In a time when power is increasingly equated with intellectual capital, that translates into wives who match or perhaps exceed their husbands in educational and professional status. Witness the rise of the power bride. Review of Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home By Pamela Stone The Mother's Movement Online Instead of focusing reductively on women's "choices" (who has choices when alternatives are limited?), Stone charts the institutional obstacles and cultural pressures that leave even the most advantaged women feeling pushed out. Stone writes as a sociologist, a scholar of women's careers, and a mother. But here's why I love this book: Instead of blaming women, imploring us to "get back to work" (a la Linda Hirshman) or warning us (Leslie Bennetts-style) that we're all making a dastardly mistake, her message is one that, as a Gen Xer staring into the crosshairs of burgeoning career and potential motherhood, is far more palatable to hear. Huffington Post I came home from a heady feminist conference in the mood for some slightly lighter fare. So my beau and I went to see Knocked Up -- the original plan was Spiderman 3, but Judd Apatow won out. Yesterday, my dear boy sent me the links to reviews in Salon and Slate. "Both positive," he wrote in the email, "but Slate has gender issues." So did I. Read the review at Huffington Post |
|
Join Email List
