Feminism

Feminism can be defined as the belief of the political, social, and economic equality of women. Although not all feminists would believe that last statement is adequate or appropriate, for some consider that "equality" forces women to complete within rules defined by men, suitable to the life experiences of men.

You can find many bloggers on feminism through the regular carnival of feminists, and at Blogher, the "community for women who blog" (which also holds an annual conference). An excellent source on UK feminism is The F-Word, and in the US check out Feministe.

There are many types of feminism, including liberal feminism, radical feminism, separatist feminism, ecofeminism, and even hip hop feminism, to name just a few.

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• Sort of true, but not really

  
  Cosmopolitan Conservative — Authority: 112
  Earlier today, I wrote a post in response to AC Kleinheider’s column . It was getting lengthy, so I broke it into two parts. Below is Part II. Click here for Part I. It’s not very often that I find myself agreeing with Tennessee bloggers, Betsy Phillips at Tiny Cat Pants or Newscoma . While always ...
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• Feminism and Gender in the Aughts

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 142
  The last ten years have been nothing if not a roller coaster ride when it comes to feminism and gender. I found the lows to be more plentiful than the highs, but the surprises kept coming. So, in no particular order, heres what stuck out to me: The Bush years may have been one of the worst times for those of us ...
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• WMC Top Ten 2009

  
  Majority Post — Authority: 433
  This week’s show — hosted by Women’s Media Center President Jehmu Greene, Media Director Rebekah Spicuglia and Progressive Women’s Voices alum Barbara Glickstein — highlights the WMC Top Ten of 2009.If you like what you hear, please email WBAI — editor@wbai.org — thanking the station for providing the ...
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• “Evidence about the preferred orders of English binomial expressions for gendered categories of humans”

  
  feminist blogs — Authority: 162
  That’s a phrase taken from this interesting post entitled “Sexual Orders” by Mark Liberman at Language Log .
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• hell yeah! fuck victim-blaming

  
  Apuntes de por ah — Authority: 148
  hell yeah! fuck victim-blaming : kimclit : clawsbeatskin : Sexual Assault Prevention Tips Guaranteed to Work! 1. Don’t put drugs in people’s drinks in order to control their behavior. 2. When you see someone walking by themselves, leave them alone! 3. If you pull over to help someone with car ...
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• Sunitha Krishnan and Sex Slavery

  
  11D — Authority: 136
  
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• Where are the Women? Not Too Many in the October, November or December Issues of the Columbia Law Review. Eighteen of Twenty-One Published Authors are Male. Only One Author is a Woman Law Prof.

  
  Feminist Law Professors — Authority: 135
  October : In memoriam–Louis Lowenstein. Tributes by Harvey J. Goldschmid, Kenneth P. Kopelman, Arthur W. Murphy, William Savitt and David M. Schizer. 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1263-1277 (2009). Miller, Darrell A.H. Guns as smut: defending the home-bound Second Amendment. 109 Colum. L. Rev. 1278-1356 (2009). Zatz, Noah ...
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• Political Power of Story in Smacking, Hitting, Punching

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 116
  Matalin to Palin: Quit Bitching, That’s Just How The GOP Treats Its Women If someone isn’t in tears every day, that day wasn’t all it could be advancing the campaign. I once witnessed an experienced (big) man slap a professional female colleague across the face over an ad buy… and no one thought anything of ...
  21 hours ago

• "Well thats just asinine!"

  
  After Atalanta — Authority: 122
  Indeed it is, Mother. Indeed it is. That was my mothers response after Christmas dinner to the news (as told by me) that two horses made the APs list of the top female athletes of 2009. Plenty has been written about this already and even feminists have taken note. (The italics refer to the sometimes contrived ...
  21 hours ago

• Shall we make a revolution?

  
  Domestic Felicity — Authority: 122
  Im not a superwoman. Perhaps there are women out there who work full-time outside the home, and whose homes are still clean and immaculate and who put three good homemade meals on the table every day. I know in many cases its a façade of having it all, which is hiding severe burn-out and incapability to spend time ...
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• Excellent Ladies of the Small Screen

  
  this ain't livin' — Authority: 540
  copyright meloukhia I spend so much time writing about things on television which annoy me that I thought it might be nice to take a day off to write, instead, about things on the television which delight me. Today, some female characters on television whom I actually like. I’ve always had a contentious attitude ...
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• Ellen Goodman to retire

  
  Feministing — Authority: 677
  Ellen Goodman , Pulitzer prize winning syndicated columnist, author and feminist, announced her retirement this weekend. Goodman has been writing for her column in the Boston Globe since 1967, and has not only served as one of the most renowned women columnists weve seen, but more importantly has been bringing ...
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• Making Video Games for Little Girls

  
  Sociological Images — Authority: 668
  In this video, Brenda Laurel discusses her successful computer game for girls.  Detailing extensive research on what girls want, Laurel then shows us a some interviews with girls and a bit of the resulting video game, Rocket, which seems to focus heavily on navigating complicated high school relationships.  Laurel ...
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• Shorter Tiny Pasture–What About The Men?!

  
  Tiny Cat Pants — Authority: 566
  Women need to be embraced as leaders — but not out of fear or necessity. It should happen the right way, or else the Right will merely be seen as a bunch of weak-willed reactionary little boys sending their women out to do their fighting for them. Yes, I will give you a minute to catch your breath from laughing. ...
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• NY State Senators prepare to expel Monserrate…

  
  OntheWilderSide — Authority: 441
  (excerpt from) City Hall NewsSenators Prepare to Expel Monserrate Regardless of Committee’s FindingsA Senate panel mulling the fate of Hiram Monserrate, who was convicted in November of misdemeanor assault [in a domestic violence scenario with his girlfriend], has completed four marathon sessions, pored over ...
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• Female Animalization, A Collection of Images

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 482
  Female animalization is the depiction of women as animals, or as hybrid human-animals. It’s in fact a subgenre of female objectification , which is itself a subgenre of dehumanization (see also here ). Depicting a woman as an animal means taking away her human characteristics and can lead to gender ...
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• UK police protect girls who are forced to convert to Islam

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 559
  Story here from This is London . (H/T ECM) Excerpt: Extremist Muslims who force vulnerable teenage girls to convert to Islam are being targeted by police, Met chief Sir Ian Blair has revealed. Police are working with universities to clamp down on “aggressive conversions” during which girls are beaten up and ...
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• Treading the Twisty line.

  
  The Pervocracy — Authority: 124
  My current work partner is, to put it mildly, not from my cultural background. He was raised as a very strict Traditional Values Evangelical Christian complete with weird homeschool co-op, didnt have sex before marriage (which wasnt such a hardship since he married at 17), and he still doesnt know a lot of the ...
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  Balderdash — Authority: 433
  "A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world." - John le Carre *** More on monkey patriarchy: Yerkes Researchers Find Sex Differences in Monkey Toy Preferences Similar to Humans Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center , Emory University, have found rhesus monkeys ...
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• Fadding

  
  Kiwi back in Sydney! — Authority: 119
  Im not prone to attacks of "mommy-blogging", but today I make an exception. Because in the last few days Ive met a number of people who have asked if I breastfeed my baby on demand. Id never heard the term used before, but apparently its just one of several feeding options. Which makes me wonder about the others. ...
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