Tag Archives: feminism

What are we waiting for?!

I hate stereotypes. I know I’m not alone by any stretch of the imagination, but I do. I really hate them. The ideas, not the people who hold them. So when I was a teenager reading Pat Conroy’s The Great … Continue reading

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Not Your Mother’s Feminism

It’s now been nearly a year since I wrote “Not Quite Post-Feminist” examining what author Susan J. Douglas calls “enlightened sexism” and how it could be seen in the attitudes of Stoneleigh-Burnham students. Enlightened sexism, for those who haven’t heard … Continue reading

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