Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label feminism. Show all posts
Thursday, September 9, 2021

The new Cinderella has no use for princesshood, thank you very much

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This entrepeneurial heroine is too busy pulling herself up by her own bootstraps to bother with glass slippers These days it feels like we...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Microreview [film]: Born in Flames, Lizzie Borden [dir.]

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A Punk-Inspired Underground Gem from 1983   Described by The Village Voice as "a radical-lesbian-feminist sci-fi vérité," Born i...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Microreview [book]: The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna

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Full of fun, YA tropes, The Gilded Ones  explores a violent world where friendship is a matter of survival.  Content Warning: Rape, Torture...
Monday, January 7, 2019

Feminist Futures: The Female Man

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Dossier : Russ, Joanna. The Female Man  [Bantam, 1975] Filetype : Book Executive Summary : Two women -- Joanna, a writer living in 19...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Feminist Futures: Her Smoke Rose Up Forever

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Dossier : Tiptree Jr, James. Her Smoke Rose Up Forever [Tachyon, 2004] Filetype : Book Executive Summary : This collection of 18 short...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Feminist Futures: Herland

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Dossier : Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Herland [The Forerunner, 1915] Filetype : Book (Originally Serialized) Executive Summary : Three me...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Frankenstein at 200: Society Be Damned

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Maybe a decade ago, I worked on the script for a TV movie about Frankenstein's monster that never made it out of development, for a stud...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Frankenstein at 200: An Outsider's Love Song

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We never forget our first loves, yeah? Sometime in the mid-to-late-1980s, KTXH Channel 20 — the local UHF channel in Houston, Texas — show...
Monday, April 24, 2017

DYSTOPIAN VISIONS: The Handmaid's Tale

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Dossier : Atwood, Margaret. The Handmaid's Tale [McClelland and Stewart, 1985]. Filetype : Book File Under : Statist Dystopia Execut...