When I first started hearing about FEMEN, a Ukrainian women's organization, I got the impression of a curious hybrid between short skirts and progressive politics - an aggressively visual movement...
Hayao Miyazaki’s "Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea" is another perfect illustration of why he may well be the most quietly influential feminist filmmaker out there right now. Unlike previous works...
Summer is the most popular time for weddings. Driving by a church on a Saturday afternoon will most often mean watching a bride and groom pose for pictures while families smile with what is in some...
America's foremost food evangelist, Michael Pollan, has a new article in the New York Times Magazine, decrying the decline of cooking in America and the outsourcing of our meals to corporations. He...
The sequel has become a quick way for the movie industry to draw in viewers. With the cost of production studios are reluctant to take chances and instead fall back on cookie cutter plots that seldom...
Tina Brown’s ploys for self-promotion are numerous, but her latest piece, along with a follow-up interview on CNN, takes the cake. Brown, former editor for noted U.S. magazines such as Vanity Fair,...
Today we associate the veil strictly with the Muslim faith, forgetting that it has a rich tradition in Christian theology as well. After all, I Corinthians 11, verse 5 states: But every woman that...
Unlike other western politicians, American legislators are expected to lead lives of sexual purity. When they step outside of their marital vows, it triggers a feeding frenzy in which members of the...
France, like most Western countries, prides itself on individual freedoms. It has a long history of dissent and uprising when these norms are threatened or minimized in anyway. Immigrants change...
In 2004, Lily Burana wrote a book called Strip City, a memoir told as a cross-country road trip from strip club to strip club, reconciling her past as a dancer in those clubs with her career as a...
