All posts tagged "Motherhood"
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, Postpartum Pain
By Elisabeth J. Ferrell-Horan “Wellbutrin in my Brain” There is Wellbutrin in my brain, and I’d like to get it out. It has...
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EMERGING FEMINISMS, What I Should Have Said Then
By Emily Rooney * “Collective Voice of the Voiceless”: Campus Violence, Resistance, and Strategies for Survival Forum Contribution* Dear Mr. Nathan Cooley, I’m sure...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Surrogate Feminism
By Rebecca Heilweil She has my eyes. They’re a cool dark-blue, shaped by chubby almond lids and framed by cornstalk blonde hair. They’re our eyes....
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Demeter Press at Risk of Closing: Is Motherhood a Feminist Issue Worthy of Support?
By Christine H. Morton Do we need a feminist movement for mothers? Do motherhood scholars need their own association and publisher? Andrea O’Reilly, founder of...
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The Cult of Motherhood: A Century of Mother’s Days
By Melissa Seelye As a child growing up in the United States, I perceived our national holidays as no more artificial than the days of...
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Mother’s Day: Love and Tears
The beginning of May signals the end of the school year, the start of spring, and of course Mother’s Day. As with most American holidays,...
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Personal is Political: A Feminist Defense of Cinderella
Shoshanna Schechter-Shaffin explores the relationship between feminism and princess culture for #personalIsPoliticalOnTFW, "When we completely and totally reject princess culture, we limit our daughters from...
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Personal is Political: Chicana Motherwork
Michelle Téllez writes about Chicana motherwork for #personalIsPoliticalonTFW.
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Personal is Political: Meaning to Survive
By Lynn Roberts Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. ~ Audre Lorde, A Burst of...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: The Sentiment of Success
By Camille Evans I am an artist, a feminist, and a reluctant perfectionist. But what I am certainly not is—emotional. When it comes to self-expression,...
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3 poems by Valerie Bandura
Vagina and Cross-Cocks For their flag, ……….a sliced pair of white boxers, and on it, ………………………………………………………………in marmalade, the diamond shape of a vagina...
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If Wishes Were Fishes: A Love Letter to Our Daughters
Today is International Day of the Girl Child. A celebration of girls the world over, this day also marks the absence of educational and other...
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I Used To Believe…Now I Know
By Lara Lillibridge I used to believe that my mother was complicit in everything that went wrong in my life. I knew that she wasn’t...
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Feminists We Love: Layli Maparyan
Layli Maparyan is the Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of The Wellesley Centers for Women, one of the nation’s leading organizations committed to research and...
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My Dollhouse, Myself: Miniature Histories
By Nicole Cooley In the Dollhouse Nursery Painted sea foam green, the nursery you arrange on the top floor of your dollhouse has enough...
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Ad Matrem: Attachment Parenting, Feminism, and Catfights
By Keira V. Williams Last summer, the world—or at least the American media—momentarily freaked out over attachment parenting, the parenting style that posits that children develop...
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Feminists We Love: Duchess Harris (Video)
Duchess Harris is Professor and Director of American Studies at Macalester College, where she is also an affiliate in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and...
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Heidi R. Lewis Discusses Gender & Sexuality on KRCC’s "Western Skies"
This month, Heidi R. Lewis was featured on KRCC‘s “Western Skies” radio program with Noel Black (Producer), attorney Julie Wolfe; and reporter Stephanie Earls of...
