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An early (and I mean early... 1405, in fact) feminist writer, Christine de Pizan, wrote The Book of the City of Ladies. A selection from this book kicks off The Essential Feminist Reader and shows that not a lot of society’s perceptions of women have changed drastically over the past 600+ years. At the beginning of the text selection, Christine de Pizan’s character makes her way through

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One of my contacts sent me an article from the New Yorker: "Why the Women's Movement Needed Betty Friedan." While the article recognizes The Feminine Mystique's privileged standpoint of white middle-class/upper middle-class women, it also discusses how Friedan's book was still a necessary and very significant work for the women's movement. I just started reading this article and thought I'd

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Last night I read a quick selection from Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape in The Essential Feminist Reader. One of the many striking things I read in this short introduction to Brownmiller’s text is her notion that the story of Little Red Riding Hood is, in fact, a parable of rape (and patriarchy in general). When I think back on fairy tales, I have always recognized

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Well, I've been out of touch with this blog for quite some time. I've been wanting to get back into the blogging world, but since I'm not writing too much about Public Communication anymore and my thesis has long been over, it's time to move on to something else. I've decided to keep the "Women's Issues" part of this blog's focus, so I've renamed the blog Feminist Writings because, well, I'm a

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This entry was originally posted on AAUW's blog, Dialog. Who has been honored this month with esteemed women such as Linda Chavez-Thompson, Augusta Thomas, Elizabeth Shuler, Arlene Holt Baker, and Nancy Wohlforth? My mom! I know it may sound a bit cliché, but for Women’s History Month, I would like to recognize my mother, Jane Broendel. As the first female officer for the National

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Today is the beginning of Women's History Month! To kick off AAUW's online/social media activities for the month, I published this blog post today. It includes a lot of information about the month-long celebration as well as how others can get involved! I'm really excited about the strategy and seeing what others do to recognize women's accomplishments.

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Gender-based wage discrimination is a huge problem--not only for women--but for the economy in general. One of my colleagues made a great point on AAUW's blog:As women now make up half of the workforce, wage discrimination hurts the majority of American families. And in these tough economic times, when more and more and more families are counting on a woman’s paycheck to make ends meet, pay

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You can really tell that I work on a blog professionally because I rarely remember to update this one! The posts I've written since I last updated are as follows:Gender Violence: A Look at Female Comic Book CharactersHelpful TweetingSave the Date: Work-Life Blog Carnival I am now full staff and work within both social media and communications. This is a really cool job because I'm communicating

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My most recent blog entry for AAUW focuses on how the media covers sexual violence, using reports on the Richmond HS gang rape as examples. This entry was also cross-posted to the About-Face blog. (About-Face educates about media representation of women.)

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AAUW has created its first Twibbon! Show your support for Stop the Stupak Amendment!It was really cool to learn how to create a Twibbon. :-)

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It's been a busy couple of months. I have been doing a lot of writing, media relations, and taking care of social media initiatives for AAUW. I cross-post my AAUW blog entries on my WordPress acount, but I can include links to those posts here, too.Starting off on the Wrong FootThis post is taking a look at Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into

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My blog post (and accompanying comment) have been published on AAUW's blog today. This post talks about women in the media -- but not just the portrayal of women. Instead, I focus on women's participation and representation in the media.In other news: I've applied to be a contributing writer for the global feminist blog, Gender Across Borders. Fingers crossed!

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Yesterday (Aug. 26th) was Women's Equality Day -- a day to commemorate the suffragist movement and the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which secured women's right to vote. I wrote a blog post for AAUW about the celebrations occurring in honor of women's equality while noting how much more work still needs to be done...

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I know I haven’t written in a while, but for good reason! I finished up my thesis, and moved on to final classwork this summer. I’m now done – I have earned my Master’s degree in Public Communication!I started working as the Communications Fellow at AAUW (American Association of University Women) during the first week of June. It’s great working in my field of expertise and interest:

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Just after spring break I turned in my midterm paper for Feminist & Gender Theory Class regarding the various levels of control placed on women, from domestic violence to contributions at work. It was an incredibly successful paper! Speaking of success, my group members and I had to lead class discussion tonight about poststructuralist theory readings. Groups are only expected to lead for 45

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I'm currently reading an article by C. Calhoun titled "Separating Lesbian Theory From Feminist Theory," and it's been really interesting so far. I came across a paragraph where the author talks about the patriarchy that existed (still exists? thoughts?) within the gay movement. Since the gay movement primarily identified with gay men, it didn't really address the oppression of lesbians in

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I received an email late last week informing me that my fellow panel participants would no longer be able to attend the conference. So, to keep me from being lonesome, I have been rescheduled and will appear on a different panel than I wrote about before. Here are the most up-to-date details that I have:My presentation on the framing of sexual violence in the media will take place on the "Crime

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Recently, I've been seeing articles, such as these at the New York Times and Salon's Broadsheet, discussing women eventually outnumbering men in the workforce and becoming the breadwinners for their families. I bring this up due to its potential implications for women's issues: some people might interpret this phenomenon as a measure of equality or progress for women in our society. I think it's

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I've just heard from the Urban Transformation Conference organizers, and I have been placed within the last panel session of the day from 4:35-6:00 (on March 21st) in Room 247. (I believe that is within the Mary Graydon Center at AU.) I will be participating on the "Sexuality and Representation" panel where I will have 15 minutes to present my thesis topic and updated research.Speaking of

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I have very exciting news today!My paper was accepted by the "Urban Transformations" conference, and I have been invited to present on a panel. The conference will be held at AU on March 21st. I don't know much about my panel assignment yet, but I'm hoping it will still be within the "Language, Sexuality & Citizenship" theme. I submitted a paper about my thesis (capstone) topic, which is the

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I know it’s been a while since I last updated the blog, but things have been busy. This post will serve as an update about my various projects.I submitted an essay to the Win a Trip with Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times. I wrote about the need for framing issues in the news that will get audiences, particularly younger people, personally invested in global occurrences rather than

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No, I’m not referring to childbirth.I read some articles this week that focused on women in the labor force, particularly their exploitation and objectification as a result of the relationship between capitalism and patriarchy. One theorist, Lim, argues that feminists can neither fully criticize, nor applaud, factory work in developing countries because it creates an environment for women to be

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For my Communication & Social Change class this semester, we will be launching a social marketing/public media campaign focused on reducing the number of sexual assaults on campus (AU). A commendable goal for sure, but how do you measure that? Who do you target? What's the message and framing?These are all questions the professor, my fellow classmates, and I have been grappling with. I had

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I've decided to start this blog in order to document my last full semester in grad school, and possibly beyond. I'm currently studying to get my MA in Public Communication from American University in Washington, DC.So far, my experiences back in school have been great, and I'm very appreciative of the network of professors and fellow students who have been so supportive and helpful! Between now

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