Female writers may exist, but their work is not being recognized nor rewarded. If you beg to differ, I give you Exhibit A: “Women have been entirely shut out of the big-league categories of the National Magazine Awards.” Although they’re nominated for fiction awards, there’s a complete absence of women in the major categories of reporting, ...
A public inquiry in the UK looking at media ethics has begun to look into sexism in the press. The focus is on sexism in tabloid journalism. There’s no doubt that sex – and sexism – sells papers. From a daily picture of a topless teenager on page three in one British tabloid paper (The ...
The freedom to define ourselves as individuals, rather than by our relationships with men, is a global feature of feminism. Indira Goswami, who died this week, was an activist and writer who took that notion seriously. Widowed as a young woman, Goswami lived amongst other young widows in an Assam ashram; she wrote her first, ...
The arts and journalism worlds were on the edge of their seats yesterday as the Pulitzer Prizes were announced. And while most people were baffled that no award was given in the Breaking News Reporting category, I was more preoccupied with finding out how well women were represented among the winners. In light of the ...
Journalism is dying. Companies have tried all kinds of interesting ways to revive it, from charging for access to their websites to publishing more and more sensational opinion pieces. Yet there is only one thing that seems to be common across the board: Naked Ladies. Media Matters just published a delightful mash-up showing just exactly ...
The New Yorker contains some of the best writing in the world. It is the last stronghold of the long article, the protector of prose and the savior of the great short story. What a shame that the walls of this literary fortress cannot be extended to include the fairer sex. Anne Hays is calling ...
A weather-beaten eye cast over the media: HatManJim looks at a story in the headlines and as a feminist with a penis (Menimist? Femi-meni-mist? I just believe i n women’s rights, I’m not having gender-reassignment. OK?), attempts to map the sexism inherent in the press, without inadvertently saying anything lecherous about breasts.
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
I recently heard about what is claimed to be the rising phenomenon of Japanese men remaining virgins for longer...
Ladders. Patriarchal conspiracy. I’ll explain… This week I climbed a ladder. I was trying to reach a loft space,...
Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
