feminism

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform at the Super Bowl halftime show in 2004.

Reexamining the 'upskirt decade' and the public ridicule of female pop stars

8:10am February 08, 2024

The new book Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s reassesses a time when popular culture policed, ridiculed and even took down a variety of women in the public eye.

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Arts

Is Barbie a feminist icon? It's complicated

7:54am July 27, 2023

by Rachel Treisman

The Barbie movie is being celebrated (and slammed) as a feminist film, with its themes of female empowerment and critiques of the patriarchy. Can the same be said for the doll at the center of it?

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Supporters of South Korea's presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party cheer during an election campaign rally in Seoul on Tuesday.

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As South Koreans go to the polls, a backlash against feminism has become political

10:42am March 08, 2022

by Anthony Kuhn

Young voters are considered a key voting bloc as the ruling Democratic Party and the conservative opposition People Power Party vie to secure the presidency. But gender issues divide South Koreans.

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Sharmistha Chaudhuri (center, wearing pink), 35, at her wedding in Kolkata, India, in January 2020. Chaudhuri found some Indian wedding traditions retrograde, so she hired four feminist priestesses to officiate at hers. They performed a multilingual, egal

Hindu priestesses fight the patriarchy, one Indian wedding at a time

9:20am October 15, 2021

by Lauren Frayer

The priestesses are part of a feminist push to make Hinduism more inclusive. Some have begun officiating at Indian weddings stripped of patriarchal traditions: No more "donating" brides to in-laws.

Jean Satterfield plays the revolutionary leader of an underground women's army in the 1983 feminist classic Born in Flames.

Arts

This 1983 Feminist Film Was Set In The Dystopian Future, So Basically Right Now

5:23pm July 11, 2021

by Neda Ulaby

Born in Flames was made by pioneering underground filmmaker Lizzie Borden. She vanished from screens for decades, and now her work is being rediscovered.

Scarlett Helmecki joined an all-girls Scouts BSA troop in Delaware two years ago and recently became an Eagle Scout.

National

'I Earned This': One Girl's Journey To Becoming An Eagle Scout

1:00pm March 30, 2021

by Sophia Schmidt

Scarlett Helmecki, the first girl in Delaware to achieve the rank, accepted the Eagle Scout challenge two years after joining an all-girl BSA troop.

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An illustration shows medical student Elizabeth Blackwell at Geneva Medical College (later Hobart College) in upstate New York, as she eyes a note dropped onto her arm by a male student, during a lecture in the college's operating room.

'Doctors Blackwell' Tells The Story Of 2 Pioneering Sisters Who Changed Medicine

2:40pm January 19, 2021

by Dave Davies

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman in America to earn her medical degree. Her sister Emily followed in her footsteps. Janice Nimura tells the story of the "complicated, prickly" trailblazers.

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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot, by Mikki Kendall

Books
Arts

'Hood Feminism' Is A Call For Solidarity In A Less-Than-Inclusive Movement

4:59am February 26, 2020

by Ericka Taylor

Mikki Kendall reveals how feminism has failed to consider populations too often excluded from the movement's banner — and forgotten to weigh the breadth of issues affecting the daily lives of many.

Chef Angie Mar, who has received rave reviews for her New York chophouse Beatrice Inn, has been called a "badass" by the press. While some women have no problem with the word and use it in an entirely complimentary context, many others dislike its bro-cul

Books
Arts

'Badass': The One Word That Has Become A Lightning Rod For Many Female Chefs

5:15pm November 11, 2019

by Nina Martyris

In her new book, Charlotte Druckman asks over 100 female chefs and food writers if there are any words or phrases they wish people would stop using to describe them. One word was a bit of a surprise.

In 2017, Women Marched In Solidarity; 2019 Finds A Fractured Movement

7:54am January 19, 2019

by Danielle Kurtzleben

For the third year in a row, women will march in Washington, D.C., and other cities in the name of social change. But some of the messaging is being lost amid controversy surrounding march leaders.