Tag Archives: gender roles

Not Oprah’s Book Club: Welcome to My World

By Chloe | Published: January 24, 2011

Tweet At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, figure skater Johnny Weir performed a short program that he titled “I Love You I Hate You.” In his new memoir, Welcome to My World, Weir writes that the name of the program “was a fairly accurate description of my relationship with the skating world.” It’s also a [...]

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The Feministing Five: CJ Pascoe

By Chloe | Published: December 4, 2010

TweetCJ Pascoe is the author of the book Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School and the forthcoming Mias and Wannas: Identity and Community in a Pro-ana Subculture. Pascoe, who is an assistant professor of Sociology at Colorado College, has been studying youth culture for many years, beginning, as she told me, [...]

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The Women of the GOP & Warped Gender Identity

By goddessjaz | Published: October 22, 2010

TweetThere is a heavy focus by the mainstream news media on the large(r) number of women candidates running in this year’s midterm elections. Many of the women running are Republican, conservatives and/or Tea Party fools nominees. One of the main newsmakers and agitators is Sharon Angle, the Republican nominee for Senate who recently told her [...]

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