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How Do We Feel About Women's Work?

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Reason

How studying friendship has changed the way I understand my own loneliness

A few years ago, I had just moved into a house.

The Conversation

Nussaibah Younis: ‘The Bell Jar helped me through my own mental illness’

The author on taking solace in Joan Didion, discovering Donna Tartt and being cheered up by David Sedaris

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Tradwives Are Fighting the Cultural Stigma Around Being a Homemaker. That Makes Them Good Feminists.

Tradwives are fighting the cultural stigma that still remains around being a homemaker. That makes them damn good feminists.

Reason

Provocative, progressive and fearless: why Beatrice Faust’s views still resonate in Australia

Beatrice Faust is best remembered as the founder, early in 1972, of the Women’s Electoral Lobby (WEL). Women’s Liberation was already well under way. Betty Friedan had published The Feminine Mystique in 1962, arguing that many women found life as a full-time housewife and mother unfulfilling. With prevailing social assumptions…

The Conversation

Books for a year of chaos

If you're wondering WTF just happened — well, so are we. This reading list may help. Or not!

Salon

Exploring Emma Watson's Top 10 Book Recommendations

Discover empowering literature exploring themes of identity, resilience, and social change in a diverse selection of books.

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The Women of NOW review: superb history of feminist growth and groundswell

Katherine Turk has produced a must-read on the group which did so much for American women in the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - US

Review: ‘Once Upon a One More Time’ on Broadway: Britney Spears songs in an ill-shaped musical

NEW YORK — To use the Britney Spears catalog as the material for a musical preaching feminist enlightenment is, to put it mildly, a stretch. The now reclusive pop star’s heavily sexualized and self-objectifying body of work includes such fodder as “Baby One More Time,” (”hit me baby ...”), “Make…

Chicago Tribune

Theater Review: 'Once Upon a One More Time' with Britney Spears songs will drive you crazy

“Once Upon a One More Time,” a musical on Broadway stuffed with Britney Spears songs, is pure summer dumb, says Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy

The Independent UK

The inherent misogyny of AI portraits – Amelia Earhart rendered naked on a bed

The Guardian - US

Why "Stepford Wives" still resonates

Sure, suburban living turned women into robots, but this telling also reveals the complicity of husbands

Salon

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

On August 26 1970, 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City in a Women’s Strike. Organised by feminist activist Betty Friedan, the march highlighted the fact women still performed the vast majority of domestic work.

The Conversation

Why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on

'Suburban living did turn women into robots': why feminist horror novel The Stepford Wives is still relevant, 50 years on.

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No, feminism didn't kill cooking

Gaetz and other conservative men continue to perpetuate the myth that feminism killed cooking

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