They did not match society’s expectations by entering an institution built around male authority and female obeisance.
About the conditions as they have been. Meanwhile, angry art of the new era—from Naomi Alderman’s best-selling novel The Power; to Dietland, a television show about a women’s magazine . . . and a femi...
Znaimer asks Steinem what she wants to be when you grow up. Free, Steinem replies, and old . . . and a little mean.18
Yes, many single women, across classes and races, would like to marry, or at least form loving, reciprocal, long-term partnerships, but have not found mates who want the same thing, or who can sustain...
Women’s anger, publicly and loudly expressed, is all of that: unnatural, chaotic, upsetting to how power is supposed to work. Women’s determination to voice that fury toward men in 2017 and 2018 had l...
While marriage rates for middle-class white women soared through the 1940s and 1950s, for black women, mid-twentieth century conditions were very different. Since emancipation, black women had married...
The Women’s March on January 21, 2017 was the biggest one-day political protest in this country’s history, and it was staged by angry women.
Of course it’s not a waste to fight for justice, to work to right wrongs; but it is an extra tax on those already working from power deficits.
Nora Ephron explained in a 1996 commencement address at her alma mater, Wellesley College, about her own graduating class of 1962: We weren’t meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We wer...
In 2013, science writer Natalie Angier gave the centrality of female friendship a zoological boost, pointing out that, In animals as diverse as African elephants and barnyard mice, blue monkeys of Ken...
Friedan did not include black women in her vision. Black
Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,
Consider that the white men in the Rust Belt are rarely told that their anger is bad for them. Rather, and correctly, we understand that what’s bad for them are the conditions that have provoked their...
By the end of the nineteenth century, the country was awash in fears of insurrection by increasingly independent populations of women and newly freed slaves.
But there was no consideration that those single incomes were a result as much as a cause,
Anyone who wants power within a white male power structure has been asked to quell anything that sounds like wrath, to reassure that they come in cooperative peace and are not looking to mete out repe...
Anyone who lived through the 1960s should have known that the younger generation wins.
Metropolises like Cincinnati, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Seattle, and Denver boast single-dwelling households that comprise more than 40 percent of their total populations. According to Census data,1 Susa...
White men have had a nearly exclusive grip on political, economic, social, and sexual power in the United States, despite being only around a third of its population. The way that a minority power pro...
The women’s movement is a movement not of an oppressed minority, but of a subjugated majority. Majorities, by the very nature of their scale, are bound to include groups with varying—and warring—prior...