Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “Katniss is a rare thing in pop fiction: a complex female character with courage, brains and a quest of her own. She’s Jo March as coal miner’s daughter in hunting boots, the opposite of Bella, the famously drippy, lo…
Irin Carmon writes on Salon: “This week, in the wake of Rush Limbaugh’s atrocious comments about Sandra Fluke, nominal liberal Kirsten Powers suggested that Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi and Ed Schultz are the ones who are trul…
Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post: “Though [Melissa] Harris-Perry is at ease synthesizing the complexities at the intersections of race, gender and politics, she’s not quite comfortable training that academic gaze on herself. In fact, the woman…
Soraya Chemaly for Huffington Post:”The Holiday movie season is here! And, true to form, as revealed in USC’s Annenberg School’s most recent study of gender in the 100 top grossing films of 2009, we will blithely consume great movies that consistently ma…
Barbara & Shannon Kelley for the Huffington Post: “… Put a man of a certain age up on the big screen and he’s not only viable as an actor, but might generate some fantasies…Now let’s turn the tables: Who are the leading ladies of the same age, wi…