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Portrait of Marie-Olympe de Gouges, painted by Alexander Kucharsky (1741-1819), private collection

Woman, Wake Up! Know your Rights

November 21, 2016 by Emily Sosolik

The French Revolution, the Declaration, and Olympe de Gouges’s “Rights of Woman” By Emily Sosolik Homme, es-tu capable d’être juste ? C’est une femme qui t’en fait la question ; tu ne lui ôteras pas moins ce droit. Dis-moi ? Qui t’a donné le souverain empire d’opprimer mon sexe ? Ta force ? Tes talents ? (Man, are you capable of being just? It’s a woman who is asking this question; you will, at least, not take this right from her. […]

Categories: Article • Tags: feminism, feminists, France, French Revolution, human rights, women, women's rights, women's studies

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Beyoncé

Does Feminism Need Beyoncé?

March 8, 2016 by William Eaton

By Emily Tobey   Ever since the word feminism first appeared in public discourse in the late 1800’s, it has stimulated debate and disagreement about its meaning and purpose. The basic definition of feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality with men. The fundamental tenor of this definition frequently gets lost, however, amidst conflicting views, myths and misconceptions. Nonetheless, from the suffrage movement through the fight for equal pay and reproductive […]

Categories: Article • Tags: African-Americans, Beyonce, celebrity, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, feminism, gender, Jay-Z, Ms. Magazine, music, popular music, women

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Kiki Smith, image of "Pee Body," as photographed at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts in St. Louis

Urine, glass beads, poetry

May 5, 2015 by William Eaton

Discussion of Kiki Smith’s wax sculpture of a naked woman who has peed; streams of yellow glass beads spread on the floor behind her. The genius of the sculpture–Pee Body–is in the beads. ) This work likely was conceived as feminist art. The present essay also invokes a core idea of Surrealism: artists make visible the unconscious.

Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: art, Ezra Pound, feminism, Fogg Museum, Kiki Smith, poetry, sculpture, T.S. Eliot, Wordsworth

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Courage as Measure

April 28, 2015 by William Eaton

After the poet dies, people like to argue about the relevance of their work. Was it innovative? Did it do something new for form, for formality, for fluency. Does it deserve to be reread in schools or university seminars? Sometimes this discussion is valid. Sometimes the poetry in question is perhaps only marginally relevant. Other times the discussion becomes ridiculous, as it does when it concerns a poet like Anne Sexton. Sexton, often linked to the Confessional poets, which includes writers like […]

Categories: Ana Maria Caballero, ZiR • Tags: anne sexton, books, feminism, literature, poetry, reading, writing

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Courtney Trouble (with camera), Wolf Hudson (lying down), Zahra Stardust and James Darling in Toronto

Is there such a thing as Feminist Pornography?

May 17, 2014 by William Eaton

Today I offer you an interesting read passed on to me from my grandmother this week. In the piece In Toronto with the world’s feminist pornographers, Daniel Nasaw from the BBC Magazine gives us a behind the scenes look at the global community that shoots, directs, stars in, and theorizes about how pornography would look when (and if) it were feminist. In recent years, feminist porn producers and performers have settled on a rough agreement on how to shoot pornography that […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: BBC, feminism, pornography

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Lana del rey, flowers crown, "Born to Die"

The Meaning of Lana Del Rey

November 15, 2012 by William Eaton

Pop culture, post-feminism and the choices facing young women today By Catherine Vigier   The criticism leveled against pop singer Lana Del Rey on the Internet and in the mainstream press raises a number of questions about young women choosing to conform to the image required of them by the corporate media in order to achieve success, and about the conditions under which success can be achieved in the culture industries and elsewhere. This raises further questions: about the power […]

Categories: Essay, Fall 2012 Issue • Tags: Adorno, feminism, popular music, women

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Young woman reading book, standing, in nature

Reading Women Reading

October 24, 2012 by William Eaton

By Rachel M. Brownstein A review of The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack (Yale University Press, 2012)   “We were always encouraged to read,” Elizabeth Bennet tells Lady Catherine de Bourgh, who has impertinently asked whether she and her sisters had a governess. Her remark begins to account for why so many women readers—J.K. Rowling among the latest—have admired the heroine of Pride and Prejudice: like us reading about her, this novel heroine is a reader. Where a governess might have […]

Categories: Review • Tags: feminism, Jane Austen, reading, women

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