Tag Archives: Generational Analysis
“Generational tension” rhetoric hurts repro rights
TweetAnother one of these came out again. While the setup of the oft-reported generational divide in the feminist movement is unmistakably familiar, let’s break this article down. Elder feminist offers “back in the day” testimony about the lack of access to abortion rights. Then comes quote after divisive quote from presumably elder feminists that affirm [...]
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The Feministing Five: Jehmu Greene
TweetJehmu Greene is the new President of the Women’s Media Center. The WMC was founded in 2005 by Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan and Gloria Steinem, whose goal was to make women visible and powerful in the media. As readers of Feministing know all too well, women and people of color are drastically underrepresented in the [...]
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A Letter to Gail Collins: Please stop hating on young women
TweetDear Gail, What were you thinking when you penned this letter to young American women? After listing the various obstacles facing women today — discrimination, sexual harassment, violence, oppression — you say: What with all that, it looks like there’s plenty on your plate. And if you don’t feel like dwelling on the non-problems, if [...]
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An Internal Intergenerational Dialog: On Returning to Paris and Finding My Lost Inner Twenty Year Old As I Turn Sixty
TweetCheck out this guest post from author and activist Gail Straub, who will be at the Omega Institute’s intergenerational conference that we’ll be at this fall. This past May in celebration of my sixtieth birthday I returned to Paris where I had studied Marxism at the Sorbonne as a twenty year old college student. I [...]
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The Feministing Five: Sinclair Sexsmith