"Growing Eden": Author Q&A
...being excluded from little vipers of envy that can accompany being a part of a larger entity. The book is about femininity as much as it is about motherhood or...
Do Not Go Gentle Into that Dark Knight: Occupy Batman
...conquest is necessary, this ideological victory over wayward femininity. Selina Kyle is the real prize, the main villain that needs to be conquered. After all, Bane turns out, ultimately, to...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.19.13
...Cosmetics—and yes, I had their peel-off nail polish in 1982—verges on brilliant. Awkward father-daughter moments! Steely mother-daughter femininity battles! Sally Draper! Granted: With her recent research grant of $10,000,...
Book Review: The Beauty Experiment
...for our most important questions about beauty and femininity, and where I once found that frustrating, I now find it freeing—for if answers or solutions don’t come easy, maybe searching...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.5.13
...on beauty, fashion, femininity, feminism, social criticism, or anything else that might be relevant to The Beheld? What's going on in beauty this week, from head to toe and everything...
Sorry, Ladies: No World Hair Cup for Women
...conjure up an image of a man. More to the point, there’s still a certain way to be a female athlete—namely, to adhere to codes of conventional femininity. I mean,...
Stalker/Zona
...It illuminates by mere reflection without itself being an origin; thus, it becomes the luminous emblem of the castrato, a deficiency manifested by the empty glitter he borrows from femininity...
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child
Left theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommy
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
...Mount, the voice-over casts out the meek, as if to fend off any hint of femininity. One of football’s most famously violent drills is called “The Nutcracker.” It’s not a...
Values, Stereotypes, and Big Feelings: Compliments, Part II
...way (and therefore a wrong way) to wear it, meaning that it might be possible for me to fail at femininity at a later date. 3) Compliments can make us...
Helen Gurley Brown, 1922-2012
...not—and find a dictator of femininity, one born from that special kind of misogyny individual women occasionally serve to one another. Certainly lesser variations of her are exactly that. Yet...
Where in the world is…Cathy Carlston?
...woman sewing curtains, soothing a baby, or serving a meatloaf. Creative Computing described Cathy’s background in fashion marketing, and how she did Brøderbund’s bookkeeping at the kitchen table, emphasizing femininity...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...among her mentors, helps her to spy on other ramen-ya, and Tampopo, a character often animated by clichéd tropes of femininity, flirts her way into the secrets of one chef’s...
Ghostbusters
...femininity. Victor Frankenstein “produces” his masculine creature himself, and when the monster seeks a female companion, she never materializes. Further, all the women in the background of the novel seem...
Bloodless Coop
...of the erotic, naturalness, stereotypical femininity, and the earth, and also serves, according to the classic structuralist argument, as an oppositional coding that reinforces normative categories of culture, masculinity, and...
I'll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
...power. You learn early on to associate being observed for your femininity with powerlessness, and that's not an easy mind-set to shed. (Which is exactly why street harassment has long...