Posts Tagged as ‘post-feminist’

September 6, 2008

VP Babe: Looks Count

Maybe Sarah Palin is a feminist.
A youtube video shows her embracing the same superficial identity politics of those third-wave feminists who insist feminists can be pretty too.
“You are all a bunch of cool looking Christians,” Palin tells the Assembly of God, the Alaskan church where she and her children were baptized, “people are going to [...]

September 1, 2008

A Feminist-Sized Hole

The post-feminist generation seems genuinely perplexed when they encounter textbook examples of gender inequality.
“Girl Power at School, but Not at the Office,” by Hannah Seligson, is number two on the NYT most emailed stories list (Maureen Dowd’s “Vice in Go-Go Boots” is number one).
Seligson, 25, noticed that the “girl power” that fueled her and her [...]