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The Super Bowl and Glee: Very Popular Culture
| • The Super Bowl was the most popular program in television history, and the post-game Glee performed well too, attracting more than 26 million viewers. [The Hollywood Reporter/The Hollywood Reporter] • Representative Jane Harman (D-CA) will soon abdi...[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] |
Gibson Girls: The Perfect Antidote to Fashion Week Futurism
| Charles Dana Gibson at his summer home near Dark Harbor, Maine, 1940. Credit: Condé Nast Archive. Fashion week is generally about looking forward, assessing developing trends, and discovering new engines of creativity that are likely to determine the way...[Read on] |
Presentation from Panel on Abortion in Popular Culture
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Last week I moderated a panel on abortion and popular culture at the National Abortion Federation annual meeting. It was amazing and humbling to be in a place with people who put themselves on the line each and every day when they go to work because the...[Read on] |
Women in Afghanistan Slowly Breaking the 'Culture of Silence' Surrounding Abuse
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Women are often beaten, sexually abused or sold into slavery in Afghanistan, but since the Taliban was ousted, small steps for the better have been madePost | Today 11:20 am
There used to be a time when Afghanistan’s police would simply send abuse...[Read on] |
'Sex and The City 2' World Premiere (Photos)
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Those fabulous four women are at it again, at the world premiere of ‘Sex and the City 2’Culture | Today 12:00 pmThe world premiere of "Sex and the City 2" was held on May 24, 2010, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. If you th...[Read on] |
The Elle Power List – 2010
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For the second year in a row, Elle Magazine asked Nikki Finke to put together a list of the most powerful women in Hollywood.
Personally, I liked the days when the list was 1-100 and it was straightforward. The list seems to have lost its bite (if it ...[Read on] |
Gisele Bündchen at the Annenberg: “I Am My Worst Critic”
| Photographer Nino Muñoz (L) and model Gisele Bündchen pose at the opening night of 'Beauty Culture' at the Annenberg Space for Photography on May 19, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)Last night in Los Angeles,...[Read on] |
Chicago, America’s Next Surf City?
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The Windy City is one of America’s sports meccas: home to the Bears and the Bulls, the Sox and the Cubs, and but can it become Surf City, U.S.A.? Technically no, since that name belongs to Huntington Beach, California but this week Chicago city offici...[Read on] |
Miley Cyrus Versus the Chastity Cops, Round 340,982
| Decency! A thing that is in short supply, per the perma-incensed Parents Television Council. But according to this morning’s Times, the culture-policing nonprofit has fallen on hard times—just as $#*! My Dad Says, those naughty Glee kids, and a scanti...[Read on] |
Marcia Milgrom Dodge: A Director’s Story
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Marcia Milgrom Dodge has been working as a theatre director for 30 years. This past year she made it to Broadway for the first time with the critically-lauded production of Ragtime.
The show did not make it, but Milgrom Dodge and the production receiv...[Read on] |
Leave Ellen Page Alone!
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NY Mag’s Vulture (which by the way has some of the most provocative and great reporting about pop culture) pissed me off earlier this week with their piece on Ellen Page’s “asexual” wardrobe in Inception.
First, that whole term “asexual attir...[Read on] |
Why Can’t DIII Football Be Co-Ed?
| Lebanon Valley College photo
By Laura Pappano
The phrase “college football” evokes testosterone-charged pre-U.S. Marine-style intensity and mammoth bodies colliding at ridiculously odd angles and high speeds.
That may accurately describe DI teams o...[Read on] |
The Sex Scandals of the I.M.F. and the Catholic Church
| I.M.F. headquarters.Photo via Wikipedia.Last week, a New York Times investigation about the work environment at the International Monetary Fund painted an unfortunate and uninspiring portrait of the organization. Many women told the paper of wanton, preda...[Read on] |
Rescuing our kids from too much princess glitter and camo gear: TV
| When I was a kid I wasn’t allowed to watch anything but PBS. I was completely out of the loop and constantly teased for my lameness. I will never do that to my kids!
Kids loving TV is a reality for parents, and it can be a positive force. But a SurveyU...[Read on] |
What Will Sarah Palin Whine About, if Not the “Liberal Press”?
| Photo by Juli Weiner.Formerly popular polymath Sarah Palin did an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren about Libya last night, as private citizens with no constituents or foreign-policy expertise often do. Palin told Van Susteren, “You know, I ...[Read on] |
Women-Only Buses Introduced in Malaysia
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In Malaysia this week there has been a new bus line introduced in an attempt to quell sexual harassment. The Rapid Lady Bus service will run the most popular bus lines during peak-hours so that passengers can have the choice of stepping into a women...[Read on] |
Larsson's 'Hornet Girl' Stirs Summer Book Buzz
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(WOMENSENEWS)--Female authors this year have produced something for every type of summer reading, from light, fluffy and popular to feminist tracts and epic literary explorations.
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Women & Hollywood’ blogger speaks out about women, films, Citizen Jane
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I’m traveling today to the Citizen Jane Film Festival so no blogging today. Here’s an interview I did with the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, MO in anticipation of the Citizen Jane Film Festival this weekend.
Melissa Silverstein of Brooklyn, N...[Read on] |
Academics Put Japan's Hostess Culture in Context
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Check out this interesting round up of responses to the controversial New York Times article on Japan's hostess culture. In the original article, the following phenomenon was explored:
with that line of work, called hostessing, among the most lucrative j...[Read on] |
Is Bridesmaids the Best Comedy of 2011?
| Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, and Ellie Kemper. Courtesy of IMDb.Kristen Wiig kicks off the summer comedies (not counting Fast Five) with Bridesmaids, which she both stars in and co-wrote. She plays Annie, a woman trying to fulfill her duties as maid of hon...[Read on] |
Remembering a 1980’s Icon: John Huges
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The 80s was a time of electronic pop music, horrific hairstyles and very questionable fashion. Another important part of the 80s was the movies and the name that ruled the movie world at the time was John Hughes. Hughes passed away on August 6 this year f...[Read on] |
Sex Segregation Sells: Iran Opens Women-Only Bank
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Sex segregation is all the rage these days, as a popular bank in Iran has opened it’s first women-only branch with an all-female staff and security guards. The state-owned bank, Melli, opened this branch for the purposes of safeguarding wo...[Read on] |
A Dame with Game: Helen Mirren Plays Beer Pong with Jimmy Fallon
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BUST cover woman Helen Mirren promoted more than just her upcoming film, "Red", when she went on NBC's show "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" recently. Fallon challenged our Dame to the popular college game of beer-pong, and she proved to be a great sport as...[Read on] |
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