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Category: Susan Faludi

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.

self, knowledge

The “feminine” woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.

The anti-feminism bacllash has been set off not by women’s achievement of full equality but by the increased possibility that they might win it. It is a pre-emptive strike that stops women long before they reach the finishing line.

backlash, feminism, rights, women

Are you still as angry as you used to be?’ Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. “I like your anger…. Don’t you let anyone talk you out of it.

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii

Are you still as angry as you used to be?’ Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the biographical [movie] Julia. “I like your anger…. Don’t you let anyone talk you out of it.

The camera only documented what had been there all along, a marriage whose foundations, constructed from the cheap materials of convention and fear, had been buckling for years.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii

At a crucial point in my early twenties, being able to end a pregnancy had restored to me what I regarded as a normal life. I remember that it saved me.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii

Here was a Jewish man-turned-woman making fun of Jewish men for not being manly enough.

feminism, hungary, memoir, transgender, wwii