Re-Imagining Revolutionary Road
In the week leading up to the release of the film Revolutionary Road, there was quite a media ballyhoo about Kate Winslet reading Betty Friedan's 1963 feminist classic The Feminine Mystique to prepare...
View ArticleOn Our Radar: Today's Feminist News Roundup
TGI Tuesday! Here's our list of news links for today.Roxane Gay reviews Identity Thief: "McCarthy's character, Diana, is increasingly painted as lonely and miserable.... This is, it appears, the only...
View ArticleThe Office and The Feminine Mystique
On the sitcom The Office, as in real life, middle class working mothers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. They often face the choice of either compromising their careers—working part-time or...
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