All 68 articles by Sady Doyle
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The Violently Killed Femmes
From Hemlock Grove to Hannibal, TV just can't get enough of dead teenage girls.
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Bring on the Trash
Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby gets the tackiness right, but the flappers wrong.
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Will the Real Betty Draper Please Stand Up?
In Mad Men's new season, we need the slap-in-the-face Betty back.
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Zen and the Art of Corporate Overthrow
HBO's 'Enlightened' was the best send-up of capitalism on TV.
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Bigelow and the Boys Club
The Zero Dark Thirty director isn't Miss Congeniality.
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The Guts and the Gory
The Quentin Tarantino paradox.
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Twilight of the Twi-Hards
The triumph of Team Katniss.
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Swiftian Logic
The narcissistic non-feminism of pop 'princess' Taylor Swift.
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Karen Lewis Drops Knowledge
The Chicago Teachers Union president has the formula for change.
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Mothering Hypes
Jessica Valenti's new book debunks myths maternal.
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The $3.5 Million Dollar Woman
The scandal isn't really Lena Dunham. It's all the potential Lena Dunhams who get nowhere.
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Welcome to Planet A-Hole
In case being a 7th-grade girl wasn't traumatic enough, now there's a '12-year-old sluts' Facebook page.
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The Mindy Project
Kaling's new show poses our last, best hope that the lady-comedy revolution will actually be revolutionary.
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This Machine Kills Fascists, Doesn’t Pay Musicians
Folk artist Amanda Palmer raised more than $1 million on Kickstarter, then tried to get musicians to 'volunteer' at her shows. This is a problem.
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Why the Uproar Over Naomi Wolf’s Vagina?
We need to stop castigating "bad" feminists for everything they do--even when they write silly books
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In Praise of Being Daring (And Wrong)
Shulamith Firestone wrote at a time when feminists would risk the absurd for brilliant insights
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Enough With the Rape Gaffes
Bizarre rape remarks by prominent Republicans are distracting from the fundamental reasons to defend abortion
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How Helen Gurley Brown Sold (Out) Sex
The Cosmo mogul's legacy wasn't feminism; it was turning romance into a sales transaction.
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Our Fascination with Female Train Wrecks
Judy Garland, Lindsay Lohan, Cat Marnell: Why we can't stop watching women self-destruct
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Vulnerability: The New Girl Power
It’s tempting to view the female confessional as apolitical. In fact, it's a new form of feminism.
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Gabby Douglas’s Grace Under Fire
Douglas’s hair became this competition’s most popular topic of tongue-wagging. But the 16-year-old never lost focus.
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Getting Real About Manic Pixies
"Ruby Sparks" and "Louie" examine the real women beneath the fantasy
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The Power and the Story
Violence is integral to far too many narratives of masculinity
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The “Special Interests” of Rape Victims
Yes, Nikki Haley, sexual assault and domestic violence are public health concerns.
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84,000 Davids vs. Goliath
The media loves an individual underdog story, but successful activism always brings a crowd.
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Nora Ephron Finally Gets the Credit She’s Always Deserved
We should've listened to our mothers.
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Archivists as Activists
Curating social movements.
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Shiny Objects Are People, Too
Why the Romney campaign's distinction between "economic" and "social" issues is false.
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Remain Calm About “Hysteria”
Silly and uneven, the new film touches on just how crazy our thinking is about women.
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Attachment Parenting: Beyond the Backlash
Once again, women are accused of killing feminism.
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A Superhero for the Ladies
The Avengers is wildly successful in part because it acknowledges women have brains—and are watching.
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Blogging Sisterhood
How feminist blogs saved my life.
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The Poverty of Domestic Violence
More women are turning to shelters, and the jobs crisis is part of the problem.
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Mad Men’s Maddening Decline
Season 5 gives fans what they crave. But the lack of subtlety is ruining the show.
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Barbie’s Plastic Politics
Mattel's vacuous icon is the perfect presidential candidate: she stands for nothing.
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Katniss: Heroine of the Great Recession
The Hunger Games is about overcoming poverty in a starkly unequal world. Sound familiar?
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Feminists and Immigrants
Why don't many women's rights advocates see attacks on immigrants as part of their struggle?
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The Ascendance of Elizabeth Warren
Understanding the woman behind the hype.
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The Bright Side of the War on Women
By making bigotry so visible, GOP extremism may have awakened the nation's feminist conscience.
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Utah’s New Abortion Waiting Game
The state's new mandatory 72-hour waiting period for an abortion is condescending, costly and just as insidious as other restrictions.
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What Rush Has Wrought
And why it's good news for feminism.
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United Citizens vs. Citizens United
Two years after the infamous ruling, support builds for a constitutional amendment.
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Act Locally
The War on Contraception Goes Mainstream
The Catholic Church's fight with the White House makes an extreme stance seem reasonable.
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All You Need (to Protest) Is Love
Occupy V-Day wants you to challenge corporate conceptions of romance.
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Farewell to Our Feminist-in-Chief
America's top diplomat and former First Lady rewrote the rules on what women can be in America.
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Act Locally
The World According to Newt
What the 'open marriage' scandal tells us about Americans' real values.
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The Anti-Lady Laws of 2012
An ALEC affiliate crafts model legislation to deny women their reproductive rights.
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Curing the First Lady Syndrome
A new book on the Obamas' marriage just might bring Michelle out of her shell.
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The Susan B. Anthony List’s Situational Feminism
The organization's model legislation makes clear it is more interested in ending abortion than helping women.
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Act Locally
Turning the Page on Page 3 Girls
Feminist groups want to rid U.K. media of sexism. Easier said than done.
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