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...college in the 60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. Being a wife and mother somehow betrayed the sisterhood. It was tantamount to slavery. I've been on both sides of this mentality, and I am grateful my head got switched around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dr. Laura Schlessinger | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...ability to make these choices and pass these judgments is not without consequences: Such conflicting ideals of feminism as rebellion, empowerment, and sexual pleasure come at the expense of alternative ideals of genuine community and sisterhood, which can only be realized through a baseline level of consensus. Yet, if these tensions are an inevitable component of the representational politics of feminism, perhaps the best that feminists can do is ensure the unencumbered expression of each ideal. In this case, feminists should accept that sexualized images in Rolling Stone and other media outlets, while certainly not neutral, are neither innately empowering...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: ‘Sexiness’ or ‘Sexism’? | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Jess soon learns that he has stumbled into a sisterhood of modern mystical sorceresses who, page by page, short-circuit every last one of his ingrained, materialist expectations about the universe and his true place in it. Mysterious potions are drunk, lingering glances exchanged, and the mundane world falls away to reveal a visionary landscape of miracles, marvels and fulfilled hearts - one that, Jess discovers, had been there all along, just waiting for him to stumble on it. "We didn't lead you into an illusion," Dolly explains to Jess as he struggles to find his bearings in this dizzying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...macho diva. Another standout was Sarah Marie Jenkins as the leader of Elle’s Delta Nu sorority girls, who morphed into a chorus of Greek goddesses that functioned as the voices in Elle’s head when they weren’t upholding the bonds of sisterhood with cartwheels and barely-there minis. But, other musicals—”Mamma Mia,” for example—have something that Legally Blonde does not: classic songs that will forgive the lack of substance. You don’t have to love ABBA to sway...

Author: By Erica A. Sheftman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Legally Blonde' Has Ambitions | 11/3/2008 | See Source »

...Both Democrats and Republicans openly acknowledge the importance of woman swing voters this cycle. At the Democratic convention in Denver, women were featured prominently and consistently on the stage, culminating in Hillary Clinton's speech Tuesday night, when she thanked her "sisterhood of the traveling pant suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain's Play for Female Voters | 8/29/2008 | See Source »

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