feminism

Badinter's "The Conflict": Oppression of Mothers Through the Lens of France's Hegemonic Masculinity

April 29, 2012




Last week, the English version of French feminist Elisabeth Badinter's book The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women was released. The Internet has been abuzz with discussion of her book. While the book raises many issues that could be explored, I want to examine her assertion that it is no longer men [...]

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Women in the Media: You Can't Be What You Can't See

April 21, 2012




Not everyone is a trailblazer For better or for worse, most people are not trailblazers. That doesn't mean that they have no potential. But it does mean that they need role models. They need to see other people, often people like them, succeeding at the type of thing they want to do. They need it [...]

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Gender and Kids: Fitting In Versus Getting Sucked In

March 12, 2012




The pink, the Barbies, the "Daddy's little" princess, the new LEGO Friends, the shopaholic, the American Girl dolls, the beauty queen and the the very pink happy homemaker. Each time someone raises an objection about the toys, the stereotypes, and the clothing that is marketed to our girls from birth forward, others brush their concern [...]

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Barbie and McDonald's Happy Meal Disaster

February 16, 2012




I didn't really need another reason to dislike McDonald's. I have so many already. Same goes for Barbie. But a few days ago, an e-mail landed in my inbox from my friend Sarah from sarahcasm. "Have you seen this Happy Meal box?", she asked. I hadn't seen it, but sadly, it didn't surprise me. This [...]

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StumbleUpon: Feminism Isn't About Pretty Pink Paper Dolls

December 6, 2011




I like StumbleUpon. It is a great way to share and discover content on topics that interest me. If you're not familiar with it, you can check out my guest post about StumbleUpon and how it works on Kids in the Capital. Today when I went on the site, they were promoting the "new" StumbleUpon, [...]

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Why The World Needs to Change and How To Do It

August 26, 2011




"Don't let them tell you it can't be done." Those are a few of the words written by Jack Layton, New Democratic Party leader and Canada's Leader of the Opposition, in his letter to Canadians. Jack Layton is sadly no longer with us, but we are still here. "My friends, love is better than anger. [...]

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Quotable: Being a 'traditional' man can be dangerous

July 24, 2011




The featured topic in the July/August 2011 issue of New Internationalist is "The changing face of masculinity." In the first article, "Cooking up a Storm", author Nikki Van Der Gaag shares some interesting statistics: Being a 'traditional' man is risky business. A national survey of adolescent males 15 to 19 in the US found that [...]

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Conferences, Conferences…

July 14, 2011




Looks like I'm entering conference season. I think I'll be at about one conference per month from July through to November. I hope to catch up with some of you at some of the conferences that I'm attending. Women's Worlds Women's Worlds is a huge international feminist conference that is held in a different city [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I'm happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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What revolution? Why haven't women pushed harder for caring work to be valued?

March 30, 2011




When I first got involved in blogging in the Spring of 2008 (coming up on 3 years), I started looking for other attachment parenting and feminist mothering blogs. The first feminist mothering blog that I came across and one that still holds a prominent place in my RSS reader today is blue milk. When I [...]

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