feminism

Princesses and agency from magistra 139 days old

You can't observe the culture of small girls (under eights) much without realising that there are an awful lot of princesses involved. They are encouraged ...

History Matters 6: Women’s history and the mainstream from magistra 235 days old

I want to turn in what is (probably) my final post on Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania ...

History Matters 4: is there still a patriarchal system in the West? from magistra 241 days old

As I’ve discussed in previous posts about Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, ...

History Matters 2: Change and continuity in feminist history from magistra 244 days old

One of Judith Bennett’s main arguments in History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006) is that ...

History Matters 1: Patriarchy and intentionality from magistra 250 days old

I’ve just started reading Judith Bennett’s History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), which ...

Gender versus class in women’s history from magistra 274 days old

Anyone working on the history of women has at some point to consider the problem of social class and how much priority to give it. Does it make sense ...

Patriarchy, monogamy and divorce from magistra 288 days old

[ ... ] doctrinaire feminism is therefore prone to convoluted explanations as to why certain developments are really just a more subtle way of oppressing ...

Feminist nostalgia from magistra 580 days old

[ ... ] hopes for feminism had been dashed and how much better things were back then. Erica Jong, who focuses largely on the US, may be right to see a ...

Why I blog from magistra 607 days old

I have recently been tagged with a meme by Jon Jarrett at A Corner of Tenth Century Europe to give three reasons as to why I blog. So here goes: 1) ...

Baby boomer feminism and voting from magistra 653 days old

[ ... ] say that their feminism deeply informs their concerns. However, in Clinton’s case, it seems that her determination to stand by a serious error of ...