feminist

• “When I use the word feminist to describe myself to my sons, I do not affix any adjective or prefix—radical, global, Marxist, Amazon, post- etc.—nor do I discuss historical waves unless it comes up in a specific context such as suffrage or Roe v.”

  Fictionaut: Mothering in Real Time

• “I feel certain that they would not use the word feminist to describe themselves, but nonetheless, they have a growing awareness of the fact that the welfare of children is often tied to the political power of women.”

  Fictionaut: Mothering in Real Time

• “Ross Douthat wrote about the debate over the term "feminist" in the NY Times:”

  The Huffington Post: Christine Bronstein: What Do "Sluts" and "Feminists" Have in Common? They're Both Taking Down the Women's Movement

• “Douthat argues that "whether or not Palin or Fiorina or Haley can legitimately claim the label feminist, their rise is a testament to the overall triumph of the women's movement.”

  The Huffington Post: Eric Alterman: Think Again: Networks to Women: "Never on Sunday"

• “For a long period during my adolescence and early adulthood it seemed that I would not live to hear the word feminist uttered in earnest by anyone my age or younger.”

  Simon & Schuster: Big Girls Don’t Cry

• “She asked rhetorically, How much do we want to police the term feminist?”

  The Huffington Post: Marcia G. Yerman: Women and the Political Landscape: Unraveling Perplexing Issues

• “If influential women like Ephron dismiss the anger of the second wave feminists as mere irritability, if conservative women co-opt the term feminist for an agenda which is anything but, and if young women persist in thinking that sexual freedom equals equality, we will be stuck where we are for a long time yet to come.”

  The Huffington Post: Lisa Solod Warren: Who Gets to Call Herself a Feminist Matters More Than We Might Think

• “Worse, I contend, such an Everybody Movement is unlikely to achieve any of its ends, and certainly not such "oeuvres" as happen to involve women, should the title feminist have any meaning to the users after all.”

  Linda Hirshman: The Everybody Movement Is A Nobody Movement

• “Yet she is cautious about applying the term feminist to herself or her work.”

  China’s Female Artists | clusterflock

• “Perhaps she would be doing better if the GOP had not spent the past 30 years villifying the term feminist and blaming us for destroying the American family.”

  Debate expectations from Obama camp

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