"Creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, Minna Salami, takes an original look at racism and sexism, from an Africa-centered feminist sensibility that challenges illusions around oppression and liberation-in a global publication"--
Alternative femininities: body, age and identity
Imagine a world where the oppressive, over-feminized images of women from advertising, television, films, and magazines have re-armed themselves with army boots, body modifications, and flamboyant hair. Is this just another fairy tale, and if so, why cant it be a reality? In Alt…
"In 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, "What does it mean to be a woman?" Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the meaning of "woman" that defined the direction of subsequent feminist theory. What Beauvoir discovered is that it is impossible to define …
"Contemporary theory is full of references to the modern and the postmodern. How useful are these terms? What exactly do they mean? And how is our sense of these terms changing under the pressure of feminist analysis?" "In Doing Time, Rita Felski argues that it makes little sens…