“Mad & Bad: Real Heroines of the Regency” is one book you can judge by its cover, which depicts aristocratic men, faces covered by pink splotches, and aristocratic women … holding cans of spray paint. The non-fiction book, released earlier this month, is about the female artists and scientists, women of color, queer women and…
Ever since I heard the word “Jewess” a year ago, I’ve become obsessed with it. I was watching the pilot of “Broad City,” where Abbi and Ilana post an ad on Craigslist that says, “We’re just 2 Jewesses tryin’ to make a buck.” Before, I had never noticed the word. Suddenly, it was everywhere. It’s…
In a just-posted Newsweek article, Jessica Bennett discusses her discovery of feminism at age 28. She writes that it wasn’t until she entered the workforce that she realized that things weren’t nearly as equal as she thought they would be: So for all the talk about feminism as passé, mine wasn’t a generation that rejected…
I recently blogged the Details article on “the rise of the hot Jewish girl” — an article about which Leah writes here. That article aside, there are a couple of inherent difficulties in the vocabularies we use to discuss vacuous, fetishized celebrity nonsense, often the bread and butter of glossy magazine spreads. First, we are…
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