April 9, 2008

Going global…

An article in the New York Times from last year talks about how female writers around the world have started writing chick lit. Women in places such as India, Finland and Italy have started writing books for women.
This seems like good news to me, but I am taken aback that the writer of the article [...]

April 9, 2008

You say you want a Revolution…

Why do I hate the word Feminist?
I am a woman, I care about women’s issues, yet somehow history has made “Feminist” a dirty word and one that I am reluctant to identify with. I asked some men in my life what they thought of when they heard the word “Feminist” and their responses were all [...]