"rape" Articles & Blogs:
Reflections on the Observe and Report Date-Rape Controversy
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I’m traveling this week so there will be very few posts. Here is the piece I wrote for the Women’s Media Center on the date-rape controversy surrounding Observe and Report.
Rarely does a film incite responses as diametrically opposed as the new ...[Read on] |
Anti-Rape Condom with "Teeth"- Why are Women Responsible for Stopping Rape?
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Look, this is great. It will probably save someone from getting raped. Or, maybe it will just throw her/his attacker into an even more intense rage, and he'll just find another way to exert power and control.
Because rape isn't about sex; it's power an...[Read on] |
Skirting The Issues: Erase Gray Areas Surrounding Rape Cases
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What do you think of when you think of rape? Walking down a dark city street alone late at night, a strange man assaulting a young girl? A drug slipped in a cocktail and a girl waking up a few hours later unsure of why her clothes have been pulled off?
W...[Read on] |
Insurance Company: Rape Survivor? Nope, We Won't Take Her
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by Amanda Stone, Volunteer, National Women's Law Center
“Nope, we won’t take her.” This is what insurance companies in Florida said when asked whether they would provide insurance coverage to a hypothetical applicant who had survived rape. Let...[Read on] |
As school starts, a reminder about violence against women and girls
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From HuffingtonPost: Back to School, Back to Rape.
An informative read about the prevalence of violence against women and young girls.
Quick hits from the article:
1 in 4 college women are a victim of rape .
One in three teens report dating violenc...[Read on] |
Does being an “Artist” trump being a Rapist
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So much has been written about the Roman Polanski saga of late. The lingering questions of why after 30 years did the prosecutors decide now was the time to arrest him. The fact that the victim wants to move on. The amount of resources being spent o...[Read on] |
The Controversy Over Angelina Jolie’s Directorial Debut
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Angelina Jolie has been in Europe over the last couple of months filming her still untitled directorial debut a love story that she wrote about a Bosnian Muslim woman and a Serbian man. Tough stuff to begin with but the shoot has not been easy politic...[Read on] |
Quick Hit: Films for the Feminist Classroom
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Check out this great new resource for gender studies professors and feminist facilitators, an online journal called Films for the Feminist Classroom. It's being edited and produced by the Rutgers-based editorial offices of Signs: Journal of Women in Cultu...[Read on] |
Molly Haskell’s Feminist Take on Gone with the Wind
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Molly Haskell is the shit when it comes to writing about women’s films with a feminist perspective. There is no one better. Her book From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies is one of the best books about women in film and it...[Read on] |
Roman Polanski: The silence is deafening
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It seems that I am now officially obsessed with the Roman Polanski insanity. As I’ve gone further down this rabbit hole I find my compatriots on the internet to be with me in force but others who I expected to hear from are just silent.
The silence i...[Read on] |
From the Editor’s Desk: Help the Women of the Congo this V-Day
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She could be your little niece, 3-years-old and full of rare innocence and wonder for the world. She could be your great aunt who is a little crazy and loses her wits when she has a glass of Chardonnay. She could be your mother who against all odds, you f...[Read on] |
From the Editor’s Desk: Help the Women of the Congo this V-Day
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She could be your little niece, 3-years-old and fully of rare innocence and wonder for the world. She could be your great aunt who is a little crazy and loses her wits when she has a glass of Chardonay. She could be your mother who against all odds, you f...[Read on] |
TV: Feminist Cop Shows
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Kathryn Morris
I like a good procedural. In fact, I pretty much watch most all the cop shows on TV, even Criminal Minds. But I have been a big fan of Cold Case which has a female detective Lily Rush played by Kathryn Morris at its center. Now I hea...[Read on] |
Lynn Nottage Wins Pulitzer for Drama
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Playwright Lynn Nottage won a Pulitzer Prize yesterday for her play Ruined which tells the story of the women of the Congo whose lives have been “ruined” by systemic rape and torture.
Nottage was inspired by Berthold Brecht’s Mother Courage to tell...[Read on] |
Tina Fey Accepts the Mark Twain Prize
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It was a Tina Fey lovefest on PBS on Sunday night.
If you missed it, here’s her acceptance speech. May Elizabeth Williams at Salon notes that her most cutting edge stuff was left out of the show.
Two great lines from Tina: “Only in com...[Read on] |
300 Women March for Rights in Afghanistan
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I’m sure that you’ve already seen this elsewhere, but it’s certainly worth posting again.
Yesterday, 300 women in Afghanistan marched in the streets to protest a new law which affects the Shia minority of the population. It says tha...[Read on] |
Two women ceatives speak out about Polanski situation
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Here are the women’s voices I promised. Please send me more:
This is director Sue Kramer’s comment that appeared on a NY Times article from Oct 1. It is reprinted here with her permission
I am a Hollywood screenwriter and director and must confe...[Read on] |
For Colored Girls – Review
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The actresses who star in the new film For Colored Girls have been saying on the press tour that the film is not just for colored girls. I find it crazy that women have to stand up and say that a film that stars some of our finest African American actr...[Read on] |
Violence against women on television, especially teens, skyrockets
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A new report from the Parents Television Council, Women in Peril, found a 120% increase in depictions of violence against women on television since 2004. (In the same time period, violence that occurred irrespective of gender only increased by 2%.)
Cumu...[Read on] |
Florida bill would make abortion punishable by life in prison
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Rep. Charles Van Zant wants to criminalize abortion
Oh, Florida.
Sponsored by Rep. Charles Van Zant (R-Palatka), HB 1097 would criminalize abortion, and make for no exceptions for rape or incest. And then there's this:
Except in cases where a woman's...[Read on] |
Soccer: Remembering the women
| I have not watched one second of the men's World Cup. And yet it seems to be the only thing I can blog about these days. (I do have a post coming about working out in skirts--so stay tuned for something non-soccer. Not that there's anything wrong with...[Read on] |
Women Make Movies plays in SF
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Here’s a great opportunity for all of you in the Bay Area to see these great movies on the big screen. Usually the only way to see Women Make Movies films is at a festival or if it gets picked up for TV. But this week at the Roxie in SF, these fil...[Read on] |
Where's the feminist outrage over David Letterman?!?
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So conservatives think they're calling out feminists on the lack of response to David Letterman's recent reveal that he has slept with several members of his staff. Where are the protests, the outrage? To that, I have a similar reaction to Tracy at Broads...[Read on] |
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