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Self-loathing, Self-loving & Creativity

May 9, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

  Some colleagues and I were having a discussion this morning about the idea that many people in the arts and entertainment have tendencies towards the extremes of self-loathing and arrogance. It got me thinking and thanks to the wonders of the internet and some free time waiting for a meeting with my smartphone I started to do some searching and reading on the subject. I came across a salon.com article which explores many issues surrounding the subject, Literary self-loathing: […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women, writing

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Using your Podium for the Right Reasons: Jimmy Carter on Rape at Universities

April 19, 2014 by William Eaton

On my last trip down south I was gifted Jimmy Carter’s latest book, A Call To Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power. I must admit I began reading with hesitation and scrutiny, confident that this anti-choice, Southern Baptist, ex-President could not possibly be critiquing the role of religion in the oppression of and overall inequality of women. Sure enough! That and so much more. I am still only moments into the book, and certainly going in with low expectations can often […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: Jimmy Carter, New York Times, rape, women, women's rights

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Oscars in Memoriam

March 7, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

  Catching segments of the Oscars this past Sunday I was struck by the very brief mention of the assistant camera woman who recently lost her life on set after being hit by an oncoming train. After the various names of stars and Academy members who had lived long lives with prosperous careers seeing the name of this 27-year old woman who senselessly died on set seemed particularly poignant. Today I read the Hollywood Reporter article How Sarah Jones Lost Her […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, women

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Making Movies

February 21, 2014 by Jennifer Dean

After a short hiatus last week I return with my weekly reading on movies. To make up for last week’s sojourn I will quote two passages from the iconic director Sidney Lumet’s book Making Movies. It reads like a behind-the-scenes featurette on a Criterion Collection DVD, only for more first-rate movies than you can imagine (not just one)! When I first started trying to make movies myself (fairly recently), after having produced theatre for many years, I lamented the lack […]

Categories: Jennifer Dean, ZiR • Tags: film, gender, women

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The “P” word: mediated pornography II

February 3, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Two weeks ago, when I began reading Margaret Grebowicz’s Why Internet Porn Matters I learned that changes in pornography (i.e., an increasing virtual market) reflect and effect the way people think about sexuality, speech and power. Last week, as I dove into chapter 3, I discovered specific ways scholars speak about this topic. For some, pornography is a strictly masculine interest. It gets recognized—along truth and sex—as belonging to the order of the masculine (On the other hand, artifice, veiling, and seduction, […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: fantasy, men, pornography, sexuality, technology, women

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The Evolution of Dinner

November 5, 2013 by stewchef

By Claire Stewart A review of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll (Basic Books, 2013) Food historian Abigail Carroll’s debut book, Three Squares: the Invention of the American Meal, explores the historical reasons why we eat what we do, and when. Combing through a range of primary sources, she analyzes how our eating choices have been determined by our changing economic circumstances. Carroll proves that history unfolds at our dinner table, and that this story […]

Categories: Review • Tags: American history, dinner, eating, family, women

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Reading: 20-26 January 2013

January 20, 2013 by William Eaton

From Maribí Henriquez, Zeteo Contributor 20 January 2013 My Sundays are dedicated to entertaining reads, and in my case, that means catching up with my list of fictional must-reads. I love stories of women, and Junot Diaz has an interesting way of empowering the Dominican woman through his cultural stories of love. I finally caught up to reading his latest book of short stories This Is How You Lose Her and am fighting the urge to compare it to his […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: Junot Diaz, women

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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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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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