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Book Covers as Gendered Spaces
Inequality by Design makes the case that book covers are gendered spaces, and thus subject to all the regular gender prejudice and stigmas of all other gendered spaces in the world. If there was any...
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Pin-Up Queens
In the golden days of pin-ups, some of the best artists were women basing their art off their own bodies and fantasies. The post Pin-Up Queens appeared first on FAUX REAL THO.
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Hilda the Pin-Up: Chunky but Funky*
The allure of Hilda is not that she’s sexually available, but that she is active, curious, adventurous, and unconscious about her zaftig body. She had a full and romantic (if fictional) life, was kind...
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Leaving Home
Michelle Goldberg quoting Katherine Cross at The Nation on “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars“: Being targeted by other activists, she says, “leaves you feeling threatened in the sense that you’re getting...
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Slate is charmed that rap, the whole genre apparently, will be judged in the Supreme Court this December. The case, one in which a man who had been left by his wife proceeded to post increasingly...
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NPR is asked, “Are Tall People Obligated To Stand In The Back At Concerts?” They mostly get it right: The only obligation tall people have in concerts is the same one the rest of us have, to do...
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Biking and Feminism: “I belong on the road.”
I‘ve been very fortunate that I haven’t had some of the aggressive interactions with drivers and pedestrians that others have had — mine have been limited to cat calling and the traffic incident that...
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Book Covers as Gendered Spaces
Inequality by Design makes the case that book covers are gendered spaces, and thus subject to all the regular gender prejudice and stigmas of all other gendered spaces in the world. If there was any...
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