For if single women are looking for government to create a hubby state for them, what is certainly true is that their male counterparts have a long enjoy the fruits of a related wifey state, in which...
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...
Black women got stuck with the hottest, dirtiest and most unsafe jobs in factories, and as Giddings writes, they were paid from 10 to 60 percent less than ill-paid White women.
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.
Wealthy, white American wife, relieved of her responsibilities for at-home production, became responsible for scrupulously maintaining a domicile that served as the feminized inverse of the newly bust...
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...
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 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...
The ability to narratively flip the dynamics of aggression and abuse—to view the less powerful as a menace to the aggressors—has been key to how white patriarchal structures have persisted.
The ability to feel the anger and convey it to others is itself the transformative experience for many women. Women’s anger spurs creativity and drives innovation in politics and social change, and it...
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.
Steinem’s most powerful gift was her ability to synthesize radical sentiments into appealingly pithy, era-defining sound bites.
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...
If a woman is not wed, it's not because she made a set of active choices, but rather that she has not been selected -- chosen, desired, valued enough.
Friedan also didn’t consider the population of American women who were already altering marriage patterns,