Bad Faith at Sartre’s Café
It may be of interest to note that post-World War II feminism (the “second wave”) was written-into-being by Simone de Beauvoir, a gifted French philosopher, in The…
Afghan Hope
Phyllis Chesler is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. She is a veteran of many feminist combats, has…
The Eternal Feminine
The other night I had a dream where some medical expert was examining me for breast cancer. He seemed properly qualified to do this and the examination…
The Man/Woman Thing
We were having dinner at the Mission Inn, which is one of the attractions of Riverside, the town in California where we stayed during the week of…
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You
Eat The Mouth That Feeds You. Carribean Fragoga. City Lights Books Carribean Fragoga’s debut collection of ten short stories, Eat the Mouth That Feeds You, can…
Is Miss Brill an Eremofetishist?
A woman sits on a park bench on a radiant Sunday afternoon. Despite the fine weather (“the blue sky powdered with gold and great spots of light…
Paris Without End
When I was a young girl, I wanted to be a great lover or a famous saint. Fortunately, once I was a bit older, my aims became…
The Fantasy of Promiscuity
Periodically, some group of people come up with what seems to them to be the secret to human happiness; the end of marriage and the birth of…
When One Sex Attacks The Other, Both Lose
Many feminists describe the history of humanity as a male tyranny, oppressing and maltreating women at every opportunity. Their name for this is the “patriarchy;” a name…
Warren Farrell on Why Men Earn More
Why Men Earn More and What Women Can Do About. Warren Farrell. New York: AMACOM, 2005. Warren Farrell’s book Why Men Earn More and What Women…
“Ladies, Let Us Hold High the Banner of Social Credit!” Reaction, Tradition, and Localism in Right-Wing Canadian Women’s Ideology
The 31st Annual Convention of the Alberta Social Credit Women’s Auxiliaries (SCWA) was held at the Chateau Lacombe in Edmonton, Northern Alberta, Canada, on December 3, 1968.…
Constructive Dialogues: Understanding Sexual Assault From Both Sides of the Aisle
Some of the most contentious and unfortunate issues to surface in recent memory have related to sexual assault and sexual impropriety. Whether it is the “#me too”…
Grammar Bender
Grammar has consequences. My grade school still taught, in the 1980s, that words have gender; people have sex. For decades, grammar nerds have bristled at official forms…