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March 4, 2013
Blog: Page-Turner
Maybe You Should Read the Book: The Sheryl Sandberg Backlash
On February 22nd, the New York Times published a fifteen-hundred-word story about Sheryl Sandberg on its front page. But a truncated quote, taken out of context, prompted a series of hastily written critical pieces that revealed a reflexive closed-mindedness about the idea of a corporate leader who also identifies as a feminist.
July 6, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
The Age of Girlfriends
“What in the world could be more trivial than intimacy? Hmm? Is there anything real you can write about?” That is a question posed to Lena Dunham’s Hannah Horvath, in the penultimate episode of...
April 23, 2012
Blog: Culture Desk
White “Girls”
Last night, HBO aired the second episode of “Girls.” Titled “Vagina Panic,” it featured a plotline about unintended pregnancy and abortion that was remarkable for how, well, unremarkable and straightforward it was. (“What was...
March 30, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
White Until Proven Black: Imagining Race in Hunger Games
On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, “The Hunger Games,” logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and created a site...
March 23, 2012
Blog: Page-Turner
Judy Blume’s Magnificent Girls
Many women can tell you when and where they first read a Judy Blume book, but I’m pretty sure that a lot of them can’t remember how exactly they got their hands on it....
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