Profiling Gender: Punishing the Professional for the Personal on ‘Criminal...
This is a guest post by Brandy Grabow. Employing embedded feminism and enlightened sexism, Criminal Minds uses familiar tropes to reinforce the idea that women can either be professionals or...
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This is a guest post by Diana Fakhouri. It’s not easy being a lady in the working world today. We’re still fighting for equal pay for equal work, freedom from workplace harassment, and the right to...
View ArticleGuest Writer Wednesday: ‘I Don’t Know How She Does It’
Sarah Jessica Parker in I Don’t Know How She Does It Guest post written by Kim Cummings. Originally published at her blog Filmmaking, Motherhood and Apple Pie, cross-posted with permission. I...
View Article‘Castle’ Part 1: Why Can’t We Just Be Friends?
Castle in on ABC. Written by Janyce Denise Glasper An avid fan of most Whedonverse alums, I started watching Castle in the middle of the fourth season to see the charming charismatic Nathan Fillion...
View Article‘Castle’ Part II: At Least The Women Aren’t So Bad
Castle’s Season 3 promo. Written by Janyce Denise Glasper I do like Castle‘s peculiar whodunnits and admire Andrew Marlowe’s diverse cast, especially the women characters who frequently provide...
View ArticleCall for Writers: Women and Work/Labor Issues
Our February Theme Week for 2014 will be Women and Work/Labor Issues. Women in the workplace has continued to be an incendiary topic in the U.S since WWII. Before that, Marxist thinker Frederich...
View Article‘Suffragette’: The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same
This is a guest post written by Scarlett Harris. | Spoilers ahead. I went to see Suffragette at the culmination of a day spent feeling utterly depressed at the state of women in the workplace and the...
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