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...Malfoy in the “Harry Potter” series. The moment when she silently realizes that she is better without him—conveyed simply by her dynamic facial expression and a well-framed shot of her husband’s empty chair—packs more feminist punch than “The First Wives’ Club” or “The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” combined...
Linda Williams, a film professor at Berkeley, lines up on the side of showing rather than simply telling. While researching feminist reactions to porn in the early '90s, she grew fascinated by the choreography of dirty movies and began teaching a trailblazing course about porno films. "I'm quite critical of pornography," she says. "I'm not trying to teach people to accept the existence of it. As with any tradition of moving-image culture, we need to take it seriously. We need to try and come at it with some theoretical tools." Like many porn scholars, Williams includes readings...
What do you make of modern feminism? One of the failings of the old feminist movement was that it didn't make room for homemakers. And it should have. We've swung back another way now. There's the whole biology-is-destiny thing. This is where you say to me, "Rap on, sister...
...show a greater deal of emotional range than their predecessors.” Braxton said he organized the talk because he believed masculinity was neglected in discussions of gender and sexuality, a sentiment shared by most of the panelists. “I believe it was the feminist movement in the 1970s and its challenge of gender roles that has caused us to challenge traditional ideas of masculinity,” said Juan Carlos Arean, of the Family Violence Prevention Fund. “I think the gender role strain affects men, but it can also be a strength...
...gender neutral society,” said Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, in an interview aired this weekend to promote his recent book, “Manliness”. In the interview, shown on C-SPAN 2’s BookTV, feminist writer Naomi Wolf pressed Mansfield on his opinions about gender. Mansfield argued that manliness is a virtue, which he defined as “confidence in a situation of risk.” “Women don’t seek out risk,” he said. According to Mansfield...