Claudia Paz y Paz is Guatemala’s first female Attorney General - although she will not be holding the position for much longer. She is not being made to leave her position for reasons of...
The persistent myth of the perfect mother is a narrative that shapes and limits women's lives even as family structures and women's choices expand and change in the new millennium. Developing ways to...
Musician and activist Ani DiFranco was recently embroiled in controversy after she announced plans for a four-day feminist creativity camp, called the Righteous Retreat, to be held near her...
I was a little young to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it first hit our television screens back in 1997, although it finished up in 2003, when I was heading headlong into adolescence and...
On Sunday, Michelle Bachelet was voted in as President of Chile for her second term. Constitutional electoral requirements made it so that she had to leave her position following her initial...
TV comedy has a woman problem. The representation of women in comedy in general is depressingly low, and it’s especially obvious on television, where most of the faces people see on screen are not...
Could you eat on a budget of just $1.40 per meal? On 1 November, one in seven people living in the US woke up to a dramatically changed food budget, courtesy of the expiration of an aid extension in...
It is not news that the way celebrity culture treats young female celebrities (and older female celebrities, for that matter) is icky. There is the constant hounding of singers and models trying to...
Amongst the supernatural shows on television this season comes an interesting entry: Once Upon A Time in Wonderland, ABC’s spinoff of its hit Once Upon A Time. Unlike the original series, which...
The Miss America pageant may be a bizarre and largely outdated cultural ritual, but it still occupies an iconographic status in a nation obsessed with appearances and the objectification. Even young...
