Tag Archives: Feminism
Man Can Cook: Michael Pollan, The Food Movement and Feminism 101
TweetThe interwebs have been abuzz with the news of Michael Pollan’s latest book release. Cooked is Pollan’s homage to home cooking, an attempt to urge us all back into the kitchen, to reclaim from corporations “one of the greatest satisfactions in life.” Pollan argues that home cooking is both a personal pleasure and a moral imperative [...]
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I can take a joke. Can YOU take a HINT?
TweetHi. My name is Laralee. I am a feminist. I am also a rape survivor. Many women that I’ve met in the community come to feminism after an assault. They want to know why they were raped. They want to know the sociological and psychological reasons for being raped, the reasons for the very existence [...]
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Suggestions for teen feminist books?
TweetI don’t know exactly where the right place to post this is. I have a 15 year old sister and I’d really love to get her interested in feminism. She’s very smart but I worry that she doesn’t have enough feminist role models. When I was 12 years old, I was walking in the grocery [...]
Why I’m angry
TweetI have been saying for years that Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” is one of the best feminist texts. I also think that Virginia Woolf, like all great geniuses, didn’t understand just how wise her words were. In her “Chapter 2,” her elegant pen writes: “When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only [...]
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It’s a trick question!