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The Charming Absurdity Of ‘Grace And Frankie’
I’ve been catching up with “Grace And Frankie,” Season 3 of which is now binge-ready on Netflix. The show, co-created by Marta Kauffman, features a classic sitcom duo: the uptight WASP (or maybe she’s Catholic?), Jane Fonda’s Grace, and the hippie-ish Jew, Lily Tomlin’s Frankie. Think Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern, had we met them…
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Daily Mail ‘Brexit’ Headline Mixes Objectification And Gibberish
It’s a little-known fact that most women’s torsos are propped up by these things called legs. Are you a woman? Glance down and you might yet see the body parts in question. The Daily Mail has inspired outrage (and gotten in hot water) for running a cover photo of Theresa May, British Prime Minister, with…
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What Aaron Sorkin’s Gaffe Has In Common With White House Photo-Ops
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin had an epiphany of sorts over the weekend. He announced at an industry event that he could not believe people who aren’t white men face obstacles in Hollywood. Did he really only just notice this, one wonders? Without entering his mind — a superpower that eludes this Sisterhood Editor — it’s impossible…
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‘Oedipus In Brooklyn And Other Stories’: Dark Themes And Complex Women
Looking for rich, complicated women in fiction to match the rich, complicated women in your life? In search of women whose lives and loves defy usual narratives? Pick up Blume Lempel’s “Oedipus In Brooklyn And Other Stories” (Mandel Vilar Press/Dryad Press, 2016), just released in English translated from Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy and Yermiyahu Ahron…
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When Breast Is Not Best: ‘Breastfeeding’ Scandal Rocks Canadian Media
The expression ‘breastfeeding controversy’ evokes the eternal debate over whether it’s better to breast- or bottle-feed infants. Or maybe the question of where, if anywhere, the act of breastfeeding shouldn’t be endeavored. (Or, quite possibly, Talmudic breastfeeding conundrums.) Or that’s what it did evoke, until recently: As followers of Canadian media are already copiously aware,…
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Is United Airlines’ Leggings Ban Like Knesset Dress Code — Only Worse?
Dress codes: Not just for the Knesset, it appears. Girls traveling yesterday on a United Airlines flight were asked to change into something a little less comfortable. The story — which broke following a tweetstorm by Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts — involves some young girls, exact age unclear,…
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Memoirist Ariel Levy Deftly Deflects Criticism
Penelope Green’s New York Times profile of “The Rules Do Not Apply” author Ariel Levy. It’s a fascinating profile all around, but the most interesting part may be where Levy addresses criticism she’d gotten for… well, for writing a feminist (and miscarriage, and divorce) memoir guilty, in (also white) reviewer Charlotte Shane’s view, of “‘white…
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Advice On Avoiding Parenting Body-Image Pitfalls
I cannot sing the praises loudly enough for Stephanie Goldfarb’s Kveller piece, “Stop Telling Your Daughter She Should Eat Less Cream Cheese.” Love the piece, love the headline, love the message. In it, Goldfarb — ”a chef, a social worker, and a Jewish youth professional” — recounts leading a body image workshop mainly for Jewish women,…
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Feminist Jewish Minimalism On Display At The Met
In The New Yorker, Judith Thurman writes about two women’s wardrobes on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The first woman she mentions, Sara Berman, is our focus here. (Yes, yes, because she was Jewish, but that’s not all, I promise!) Berman — mother of artist Maira Kalman, who created the…
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Personal Essay Explores Secret Jewish History Of Smurfette
There are a good number of essays floating around — and I should know, having written some of them — exploring Jews’ relationship to whiteness. And a decent number of those tackle the intersectional question of Jewish women’s peculiar racialization (and sexualization) in modern Western society. But none, to my knowledge, had addressed the issue…
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Is It Sexist To Criticize Chelsea Clinton’s Children’s Book?
Chelsea Clinton has a new children’s book coming out, titled “She Persisted: 13 American Women who Changed the World.” Is this development is a positive sign of feminist #Resistance, or a groan-inducing example of a version of feminism aimed primarily at improving the lot of women who are already doing great? Does feminism demand congratulating…
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