Word: feminist
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...After all, there are no pictures of a bloody fetus or Bible quotes saying how all sinners will burn in the lake of fire—the staple components to pro-life advertisement. In fact, Murray saw this poster as a sort of “feminist statement...that a girl can grow up to be a racecar driver.” Feminist arguments aside, Elena was a highly visible reminder of the potential in a bundle of cells. An unassuming fetus has somehow become the well-known public face of HRL.“Harvard being such a liberal...
...church every Sunday. This month Little, Brown published a collection of my essays about family life called To Hell with All That: Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife. It's written in the spirit of one of my great heroes, the late housewife writer and feminist Erma Bombeck. It's not a book about social policy or alternative lifestyles or anything even vaguely political. It's a book about how much I miss my mother, who died recently, and about the struggles I have had fighting breast cancer without my mom around to help me. It's a book that...
...notion that being a complete woman necessarily entails picking a career over children is the pitfall of feminism today. In reality, it is not the society of patriarchy that leads women to abandon their careers; quite the opposite, the problem lies in the darker side of feminist culture, which tells women that they are wasting themselves if they are merely mothers. This view ignores the fact that for most of these women, giving up jobs is a choice...
...many feminists, however, my mother’s actions are dismaying. In her 2005 book “Are Men Necessary?,” The New York Times sweetheart Maureen Dowd bemoans this apparent lack of commitment to the feminist cause among so many modern ladies. Increasingly, Dowd fears, women are willing to opt out of careers to be professional mommies, forgoing jobs for juice boxes. These mothers are blind to the tooth-and-nail fights of the generations before them—the fights to have jobs and to hold professional degrees. This recent trend, she implies...
Today, in the rush to prove themselves men’s equals, some feminists have gone too far, losing sight of preserving their original values. They do not realize that they are hurting their own movement—that they are dismissing women’s oldest rights of all. Unquestionably, there are strides to be made in the feminist struggles. But for feminism to be truly successful, we must recognize that stay-at-home mothering is not a comedown, and, at times, is a more noble cause than its alternatives...