We're all familiar with the thrilling, pulse-pounding, edge-of-your-seat spectacle that is Chantal Akerman's
Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (
Essay containing spoilers), and we've all run out to buy the new
Criterion Collection DVD, and of course, we often spend our time fantasizing about what it would be like to lead the glamorous roller-coaster ride that is Ms. Dielman's life. Well, now you can make those fantasies a reality:
"In honor of the release of Jeanne Dielman on DVD, we’re sponsoring the world’s first Jeanne Dielman–Criterion Collection Cooking Video Contest. Make a video of yourself (or someone else) cooking 1) meat loaf, 2) cutlets, or 3) potatoes, and upload it as a video response to Jeanne Dielman–Criterion Collection Cooking Video Contest on YouTube."
posted by Greg Nog
on Sep 1, 2009 -
27 comments
Jimmy Carter leaves the Southern Baptist Church [M]y decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service. This was in conflict with my belief - confirmed in the holy scriptures - that we are all equal in the eyes of God.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero
on Jul 20, 2009 -
157 comments
“
...the Platonic nerd is invariably male. The stereotype is flexible to incorporate women and girls on an individual basis, but few people conjure up the image of a woman when they think about nerds.” Feminist blog Pandagon
reviews two books about nerdiness and geekery, Jason Tocci
addresses the question of why female involvement in geek culture seems to call for a special explanation, and two
feminist geeks set out in search of an egalitarian future.
posted by velvet winter
on Jun 26, 2009 -
142 comments
Get Your Kid Off Your Facebook Page by Katie Roiphe You click on a friend's name and what comes into focus is not a photograph of her face, but a sleeping blond four-year-old, or a sun-hatted baby running on the beach. Here, harmlessly embedded in one of our favorite methods of procrastination, is a potent symbol for the new century. Where have all of these women gone? What, some future historian may very well ask, do all of these babies on our Facebook pages say about the construction of women’s identity at this particular moment in time?
posted by Locative
on May 16, 2009 -
205 comments
Virginity at age 22. Two approaches:
1.
Sell it. "It became apparent to me that idealized virginity is just a tool to keep women in their place. But then I realized something else: if virginity is considered that valuable, what’s to stop me from benefiting from that?"
2.
Keep it. "It is puzzling and disturbing to me that regnant feminism has never acknowledged the empowering value of virginity."
posted by Pater Aletheias
on Jan 30, 2009 -
114 comments
Is the new feminism lipstick and fashion? “I think the proper reaction to a beauty pageant these days is to be bored by it. I would have thought that old version of feminism, which was violently opposed to lipstick and high heels, had died out by now. It’s an extinct image of
feminism — that you can’t be both frivolous and serious or care about clothes and read books at the same time. And, in a way, it’s sort of depressing that these same old-fashioned battles keep on being recycled.”
posted by four panels
on Dec 23, 2008 -
141 comments
Men Can Stop Rape is part of a growing movement to stop rape, sexual assault, and sexual violence by focusing on
educating men. There are efforts to
change the climate on college campuses and
curriculum at
Haverford,
Tulane,
Kansas State,
Idaho State,
University of Wisconsin,
University of Texas,
University of Minnesota,
University of Maine,
Portland State,
Harvard,
University of Rochester,
University of Delaware,
Franklin and Marshall, and
Colorado State, to name a few. Want to start your own? Here's
how.
Not in college? There's
[more inside]
posted by lunit
on Nov 11, 2008 -
279 comments
The Open Source Boob Project. At Penguicon, we had buttons to give away. There were two small buttons, one for each camp: A green button that said, "YES, you may" and a red button that said "NO, you may not." And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask: "Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?" Once taken online, the grand flurry of
reactions have been decidedly
mixed.
[more inside]
posted by Hildegarde
on Apr 23, 2008 -
247 comments
"If feminism is about social change,
white feminism -- a feminism of assimilation, of gentle reform and/or strengthening of institutions that are instrumental to economic exploitation and white supremacy, of ignorance and/or appropriation of the work of feminists of color -- is an oxymoron. And it is not a thing of some bygone era before everyone read bell hooks in college.
It is happening now; you might be part of it."
posted by nasreddin
on Apr 6, 2008 -
182 comments
The
Michigan Womyn’s Festival (“Michfest”) is an annual “womon-built” and run music festival. “Forty performances, a film festival, an artisan/craft show and a full roster of
workshops, parties and dances are all slated for one glorious week in August on 650 lush green acres in Michigan.” The festival is open to WBW (women born women) only.
[more inside]
posted by prefpara
on Mar 30, 2008 -
188 comments
Brilliant Women: The Blue Stocking Circle was a group of intellectuals with a strong desire to discuss, analyze, and examine the social, political, and educational problems of the day Mostly female intellectuals, but they included many prominent men as well.
They assembled in the London homes of literary hostesses such as Elizabeth Montagu, Frances Boscawen and Elizabeth Vesey in the 1750s form the nucleus of the exhibition. .... At first, all the party-goers were nicknamed blues, but from the 1770s, the "bluestocking" tag was applied to the women members in particular. By the time of Montagu's death in 1800, any female intellectual might be labelled a bluestocking, whether or not she could claim a link to the original circle.
posted by caddis
on Mar 21, 2008 -
10 comments
Barbara Pym’s books focused on women who rarely make it into any spotlight, literary or otherwise: quiet, sensible, independent women of a certain age. Like the spinsters who populate her novels, her genius has been too often overlooked, but she does have her
devotees. [more inside]
posted by freshwater_pr0n
on Dec 27, 2007 -
26 comments
GIRLdrive: "On October 15, we set out on a road trip. We are interviewing and photographing young women across the country, asking them what they think and feel about feminism."
posted by Hypocrite_Lecteur
on Nov 8, 2007 -
39 comments
The Brooklyn Museum's
Feminist Art Base presents online the work of over 150 artists
"whose work reintroduced the articulation of socially relevant issues after an era of aesthetic formalism", including
Janine Antoni,
Tracy Emin,
Ghada Amer,
Ida Applebroog,
Sue De Beer,
Guerrilla Girls,
Yasumasa Morimura,
Carrie Moyer,
Eva Hesse,
Pipilotti Rist,
Sheila Pepe,
Faith Ringgold ... and of course, an online tour of
The Dinner Party, and a
Feminist Timeline.
posted by R. Mutt
on Nov 5, 2007 -
19 comments
The Philosophy Research Base features thousands of annotated links and text resources for philosophy research on the Internet. Categorized by history, subject and author, this meta-index serves as both a study guide and a platform for a wide variety of community services for students and teachers in philosophy and related subjects.
posted by netbros
on Aug 26, 2007 -
5 comments
You, wife,
your husband, minister, of the strict Calvinist stripe. You're well educated and deign to have your own ideas which challenge your husband's beliefs. For your own protection, to keep you from infecting the children with your heretical ideas, and just basically to control you, your husband has you committed to an
insane asylum. A doctor at the hospital agrees and you are imprisoned, most likely for life. If you sign a paper agreeing to never challenge your husband's beliefs again, you can be free. Too proud, you refuse and remain confined. You do
write a book though.
posted by caddis
on May 25, 2007 -
94 comments
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
[T]o strive for a structureless group is as useful, and as deceptive, as to aim at an “objective” news story, “value-free” social science, or a “free” economy. A “laissez faire” group is about as realistic as a “laissez faire” society; the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky to establish unquestioned hegemony over others. This hegemony can so easily be established because the idea of “structurelessness” does not prevent the formation of informal structures, only formal ones. . . . Thus structurelessness becomes a way of masking power, and within the women’s movement it is usually most strongly advocated by those who are the most powerful (whether they are conscious of their power or not).
posted by jason's_planet
on Apr 2, 2007 -
141 comments
Paglia's back. "I had certainly assumed the Web was surfeited with more than enough material, but evidently many others beside myself find the partisan polarization of the blogosphere numbingly predictable and its prose too often slapdash, fragmentary or drearily prolix." If you like that sentence, you'll love the
return of Camille Paglia to Salon.com.
posted by staggernation
on Feb 14, 2007 -
61 comments
