"linda-jean-carpenter" Articles & Blogs:
The power of the telephone: feminism, sports and social change
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Billie Jean King. Photo credit: Blog.taragana.com/sports
I’ve been blogging the past couple of weeks about social media and its impact upon women in sport – mainly due to my own personal interests but also to fulfill a class requirement. This week,...[Read on] |
When sexism masquerades as humor
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In a great post over at the Chronicle of Higher Ed, Gina Barreca asks how women deal with sexual harassment or sexism dressed up as a joke. I love this conundrum, because it is SO fucking common. Who hasn't heard some appallingly sexist (or racist, or h...[Read on] |
Killing Me Softly: Images of Women in Advertising
| In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing Us Softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range ...[Read on] |
Haiti Ladies: A Benefit for Doctors Without Borders
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH- 11PM @ LE POISSON ROUGE-NYC$10 Advance tix available http://www.lepoissonrouge.comHaiti Ladies: A Benefit for Doctors Without Bordersw/ Lady DJ's: Ari Up, Lady Miss Kier, Allison Wolfe. Kim Ann Foxman, Dirty Jean, Ilirjana, Aleix ....[Read on] |
Billie Jean King honored with Medal of Freedom award by President Barack Obama
| Billie Jean King honored with Medal of Freedom award by President Barack Obama
Billie Jean King would love to head to the tennis court at the White House after she receives the Medal of Freedom.
But the tennis great hasn’t hit balls for nearly a year ...[Read on] |
Venus Williams, Wyclef Jean on Iconoclasts
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Ever wonder what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes? How about the shoes of someone that shatters expectations and stands above the crowd? That’s what the Sundance Channel’s TV series Iconoclasts explores.
Executive Producer Robert R...[Read on] |
'Young Victoria' Rules the Holiday Movie Lineup
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(WOMENSENEWS)--The year's big holiday season brings a special cinematic gift on Dec. 18 with the limited release of "The Young Victoria," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee.
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La Femme Film Festival opens tonight in L.A.
| La Femme Film Festival, which shines a spotlight on women's roles in the entertainment industry, opens this evening in Los Angeles at the Grove with "Love Hurts," starring Carrie-Anne Moss.
Other films in the festival, which continues through Sunday at t...[Read on] |
Women’s equality by 2020?
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This post was submitted by Jean Qiao, WCF Communications Fellow
Are you a passionate woman committed to ending gender inequality? Do you know a phenomenal woman who has made a true impact in her...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Politic...[Read on] |
Disturbing Video of Girls’ Dance
| I became aware of this video, via a friend’s post on Facebook (thanks EH). It is a video of girls who appear to be between the ages of 8-10 years of age, dancing to Beyonce’s “Put A Ring On It”. Despite the face these girls are great dance...[Read on] |
Christy Turlington – 41 Years Young and Loving Life
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Also from our Liz, a new controversy in the HamptonsLiz Smith | Today 12:00 am
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p>"The Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct," wrote that cynical philosopher W. Somerset Maugham.
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Can you name "the big six&quo...[Read on] |
Nurse Jackie gets a second season
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Edie Falco’s Nurse Jackie had a record breaking premiere for Showtime on Monday night with 1 million people watching the debut and another 350,000 watching the same night rebroadcast of the show.
It was so good that Showtime has already ordered a secon...[Read on] |
Nominate your female Sports Hero
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March is Women’s History Month and there is no better way to honor female
athletes than by nominating them for one of the Women’s Sports Foundation’s 2010 award programs.
Current open nominations include:
Sportswoman of the Year Award. Every year,...[Read on] |
Sweatpants go luxe
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With jeggings now entrenched in the mainstream, fashion-forward consumers are embracing apparel that looks good and feels comfortable. So it’s hardly surprising that common sweatpants are emerging as the latest must-have wardrobe staple, with $1,000 ...[Read on] |
Elizabeth Taylor: An Immortal Who Knew How to Live
| Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor playing gin while on vacation at La Fiorentina, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1967. Photo credit: Condé Nast Archive. When the stunning news reached New York that George Gershwin had died after undergoing surgery for a brain ...[Read on] |
Best Plays of 2008-2009
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When I went to graduate school way back in the dark ages I remember that we needed to read the best plays of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s etc before we started classes. I remember distinctly that there were very few plays written by women in those books and ...[Read on] |
Gaultier Women Box in Corsets During Fashion Week
| All I can do is stutter, and periodically I break into uncontrolled laughter that sounds like hooting. I did a quick screenshot so you can hoot too.
When I first saw the pictures from Jean Paul Gaultier’s runway show and realized he’d done the entire...[Read on] |
The Emmy nominations
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The Emmy Award nominees came out last week. Here’s a look at how women did:
DRAMA SERIES
“The Good Wife” (CBS) – co-created by Michelle King
COMEDY SERIES
“Nurse Jackie” (Showtime) – created by Liz Brixius and Linda Wallem
“30 Rock”...[Read on] |
Interview with Mary Kay Place Emmy Nominee from Big Love
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Mary Kay Place is nominated for an Emmy for her work as Adaleen Grant on the HBO show Big Love. The ceremony for her category — guest actress in a drama series — takes place this weekend on August 21st.
Women & Hollywood: Congrats on the Emmy nomi...[Read on] |
Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity Symposium
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The Women’s Initiative presents,
“Women in Theater: Achieving Gender Parity,”
December 4, 2010 at The Players Club
16 Gramercy Park South (at 20th Street),
New York, NY
1:00pm to 5:00pm.
The Symposium will feature keynote speaker Julia Jordan...[Read on] |
Animators, It's Time for a Female Heroine--No Princesses Please!
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Linda Holmes, over at NPR, writes a moving letter about her fervent hope that Pixar can take it's unparalleled talent and use it to create a true female heroine. An excerpt:
Of the ten movies you've released so far, ten of them have central characters wh...[Read on] |
Awards Watch: The Writers Guild Nominations
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The Writers Guild Award is one of the strictest in the award season. Here’s how to qualify: (Feature films eligible for a Writers Guild Award were exhibited theatrically for at least one week in Los Angeles in 2009 and were written under the WGA’s M...[Read on] |
Nora and Delia Ephron — Love, Loss and What I Wore
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Nora and Delia Ephron
This week I spent some time in the world of the sisters Ephron — Nora and Delia. First, I saw their show – Love, Loss and What I Wore (which is breaking box office records at the West Side Theatre and it has been extended into...[Read on] |
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists 2010: Fighting the Backlash
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Wish I could be in London for this. Hopefully we will have someone on site covering this for Women and Hollywood. Info here. Tickets – 5 pounds. Book tickets here.
Vamps, Vixens and Feminists 2010: Fighting the Backlash sponsored by t...[Read on] |
What We Missed: Health Care Reform Addition
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<object width="512" height="328" class></object>Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
The health care debates are making me feel more ambivalent about politics than I have in a while. Enjoy some better babbling on the topic.
Wil...[Read on] |
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