Lilian Calles Barger

Makes one wonder what drives abortion. Maybe it's a man's choice.

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Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

My field is been dismantled because men are afraid of women.

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The Unspeakable, Enabled This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.

When it comes to women and politics it's always misogyny. The effort to undo the feminist revolution is near you.

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The Unspeakable, Enabled This year will decide whether gendered abuse in real life and online becomes the norm.

“We are now facing an urgent choice as to whether we submit to the entrenched hatred and abuse of women as a technological and cultural norm, or whether we fight for an alternative way forward,” @sophiegilbert.bsky.social argues.

Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...

The last woman left standing is a feminist whether she likes it or not.

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Fighting for Femininity, Not Feminism

More women would stay home after having children if they could provide for the family based on one income. Economics (not self-fulfillment) is what keeps most women in workforce. The workplace is not fulfilling for men either.

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Tainted Ladies - Boston Review Liberal feminism is collapsing. Who’s really to blame?

Is feminism over? Some think so. Maybe it's only beleaguered. As long as women are disadvantaged for being women, it will never be over. It morphs, it changes, it adapts but never completely disappears.

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Opinion | The Play ‘Liberation’ and the Unfinished Work of Women’s Progress

This!

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No, Women Aren’t the Problem America is rapidly becoming the manosphere, but sure, let’s go after the “feminization” of culture.

If anything,America is and has always been a masculinist nation and culture. The biggest celebration of military power in history is right here in the USA.

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Half a century of the ‘male gaze’: why Laura Mulvey’s pioneering theory still resonates today In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.

The "male gaze" makes every woman insecure. What happens when we are no longer looked at? Do we disappear or find freedom to be ourselves.

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Is it OK to use the 'F' word? As a lifelong conservative, I m not sure I can think of a word that shuts my fellow constitutionalists down faster than this one

Many people are reluctant to call themselves feminist. There are so many flavors of feminism, surely one can find one that fits best. For many it still means " a secular religion devoted to hating men, destroying the family, and killing babies."
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Bridesmaid Inflation Why are we making those we love most suffer for our weddings?

Weddings have gotten ridiculous! What happened to the micro weddings in one's living room or back yard? Do women really need to pretend to be queen for a day? Do friends have to comply with your fantasy? What does love have to do with it?

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Girl boss or tradwife? An economist on how a workforce built for men has failed women In her new book Having it All, Corinne Low outlines how stubborn expectations around work and home fail to accommodate working women

Only two choices? Most women reject both and find another way. Reject false choices.

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How Corporate Feminism Went from “Love Me” to “Buy Me” A decade ago, Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” aimed to tear down the obstacles that kept women from reaching the top. Now her successors want to tear down everything.

Did capitalism encourage women to enter the market because of a need for both workers and consumers? Did the demand for equality by women get co-opted by capitalism? Reconsider your relationship with capitalism, it may not be your friend.

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Poetic

It's true: The internet skews the reality of women (and men) in the workforce Age and gender biases are baked into what we see online, a large new study confirms.

The images of older women are erased on the web and few on social media. I recall hearing that ageism is the only bias that is against your future self. So true, I am guilty.

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Here is my conversation with Hilary Holladay on her fabulous biography of feminist and fascinating poet Adrienne Rich
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NO KINGS!

Freshly out in paperback from OUP!

The dawn of the post-literate society And the end of civilisation

These stories make me ambivalent about my book under contract. How does a writer fight this? It feels like one is spitting against the wind.

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Opinion | American Women Are Leaving the Work Force. Why?

Not surprising and not new. Every few years this type of story makes the news. It's like Groundhog day, every day.

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Hegseth dissolves women’s military committee over ‘divisive feminist agenda’ Move puts end to group started in 1951 to give the Pentagon counsel on issues related to women in armed services

This is what masculine insecurity looks like.

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Trump’s Reaction to the Epstein Victims’ Rally Is Quite Telling There's an uncomfortable, gendered spectacle playing out in Washington this week.

Round two of Me Too. I hope these women will compile the list of their abusers and make it public.

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The Gold Digger Was an Archvillain. Now She’s an Aspiration.

Don't let "Gold Digger" feminism put you in a golden cage you can't escape. Talk about how low feminism has gone!

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As long as there are women feminism is not over. It's a bit lost at the moment but not forsaken. My book "Second Sight: Simone de Beauvoir and the Lost Vision for American Feminism" now is under contract. More info later. Below Simone de Beauvoir and her partner Jean-Paul Sartre, 1946.

The Growing Cohort of Single Dads by Choice For some men, fatherhood is an answer to questions about modern masculinity.

Reproductive technologies that allowed women to birth children (almost) without men does not work equally for men who want children and no partner. Is this a good development for humanity?

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The Rise of ‘Cute Debt’ Female shoppers are being pushed toward buy-now-pay-later services.

Don't be a sucker for consumerism!

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So good to talk with @liliancbarger.bsky.social about my new book, Something Between Us: about our immigrant American families, about isolating home designs and property fences, and the value of more porous relationships with the world beyond. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/something-be...

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

Women, beware! Listen to your gut! The public world has not changed that much for women encountering a stranger.

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I get it. Women don't get credit for what they do.