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lacontessa: Carole Lombard
Nov 22nd
“The journalist wanted to know if perhaps menstruation was...”
— Is Menstruation a Disability? ...
Nov 22nd
lacontessa: via
Nov 22nd
Warch Watch
Liz Phair - H.W.C.
Nov 22nd
7 popular chick flicks that secretly hate...
Nov 22nd
“In the 21st century, thin equals success: posh clothes shops...”
— Eleanor Mills
Nov 22nd
“Now that Belle has outed herself, I wonder why it remains so...”
— India Knight
Nov 22nd
“Cohabitation is gradually gaining more recognition in...”
— Ruth Deech - professor of law...
Nov 22nd
Inside the mind of a female suicide bomber
Nov 22nd
Listen Listen
suckmyleftone: L7: “Shove”
Nov 22nd
Kate Moss has been criticised this week for telling an interviewer that one of her mottoes is...
Nov 21st
oldhollywood: Jeanne Moreau as Catherine in Jules &...
Nov 21st
Girl, 10, tasered by police with mother's...
Nov 21st
“A bad novel is both an aesthetic and ethical affront to its...”
— Zadie Smith on the rise of the...
Nov 21st
“Even for him [I assume she means Chris Brown], like, he...”
— Rihanna
Nov 21st
“Why is sex work necessarily more degrading than working at...”
— via Womanist Musings (via...
Nov 21st
lacontessa: photo by Nina Leen via
Nov 21st
(via lacontessa)
Nov 21st

IMPORTANT MEMORY:

katiecoyle: Alice Yorke, age 15, in a history class debate about abortion being dominated by the...
Nov 21st
lacontessa: Robert Maguire, The Damned Lovely
Nov 21st
Warch Watch
Goth Barbie
Nov 21st
“Last year, a representative for the medical group Surgicare...”
— A cut too far: the rise in...
Nov 21st
lacontessa: Two finely dressed prostitutes in the grounds...
Nov 21st
Oprah to end her talk show in 2011 | Al...
Nov 21st
“But this is everywhere. We’re used to it. It’s part of the...”
— Tiger Beatdown
Nov 20th
anthropophagous: Stitchgasm! – Craftivist Collective...
Nov 20th
lacontessa: Gypsy Rose Lee, Memphis 1954.
Nov 20th
How to Be a Feminist Boyfriend
Nov 20th
lacontessa: That man is utterly and cosmically vile! -via...
Nov 20th
“Women can’t rise far enough to suit me,” he said. “I’m a...”
— Martin Amis says new novel...
Nov 20th
Warch Watch
lacontessa: A 1940’s makeover.  What NOT to wear!
Nov 20th
lfar: david:Patrick Moberg
Nov 20th
“As a group representing professional women working in...”
— Professor Lindy Holden-Dye ...
Nov 20th
oldhollywood: Stills from The Temptress (1926, dir. Fred...
Nov 20th
Is Feminist Punditry Really Possible? (Or...
Nov 19th
Should feminists engage with the mainstream...
Nov 19th
Warch Watch
bingoparaphernalia: brokenbottleboy: Germaine Greer vs a moron (1971)
Nov 18th
Beauty's in the eye of the researcher
Nov 18th
While the cases of Belle, Annabel, Zara and the women on the books of James’s agency seem to imply...
Nov 18th
“Yes, we women in the west may still be getting concussion...”
— Kathy Lette
Nov 18th
lindaboucher: mogadonia: (via culturetrash) What I...
Nov 18th
Listen Listen
bingoparaphernalia: The Rubettes - Sugar Baby Love bop sho-waddy, bop sho-waddy-waddy
Nov 18th
lacontessa: by Alberto Vargas
Nov 18th
bingoparaphernalia: Aircraft factory worker, California,...
Nov 18th
“De-pantsed” implies that something or someone made them go...”
— Feministe Commenter Lauren on...
Nov 18th
carolynannahall: Lovely knickers from Angeline Melin.
Nov 18th
oldhollywood: Hedy Lamarr in Ekstase (1933, dir. Gustav...
Nov 18th
Listen Listen
bingoparaphernalia: Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - Bad Reputation
Nov 17th
“The mysterious host asked the Italian hospitality agency for...”
— Gaddafi’s night in with...
Nov 17th
lacontessa: Sandra Dee
Nov 17th
lacontessa: Marlene Dietrich by Mercedes de Acosta, 1933. ...
Nov 17th
lacontessa: Princess Lahoma - Burlesque dancer.
Nov 17th
crowth: BITCH SLAP is a post-modern, thinking man’s...
Nov 17th
lacontessa: Marie Prevost, 1920’s.  Photo by Edwin Bower...
Nov 17th
Enid
Nov 16th
BBC4 are doing a ‘Women We Loved’ Season: Jane...
Nov 16th
“When I see gangs of angry gay men roaming the street to beat...”
— Womanist Musings (via...
Nov 16th
“When a woman is demeaned in the workplace and complains...”
— Womanist Musings | Honouring...
Nov 16th
katoleary: sexismandthecity: patriarchyisbullshit: ...
Nov 16th
“In the Shires, those traditional Conservative strongholds,...”
— More here
Nov 16th
“Only British politics could make a wanton of Liz Truss. Only...”
— Tanya Gold
Nov 16th
“The product of a comprehensive school, who won a place at...”
— More here
Nov 16th
katoleary: (via lenorebeadsman)
Nov 16th
Warch Watch
lacontessa: A tribute to ladies stockings as seen in vintage archive film.
Nov 16th
“No one is born hating their body. It is an attitude that...”
— Alicia Douvall
Nov 16th
Cosmetic surgeons demand ban on advertising...
Nov 16th
“Many young men, it seems, are stuck in stage one of gender...”
— What Should a Feminist Man...
Nov 16th
lindaboucher: Flamingoes, queuing for the mirror. !998,...
Nov 16th
lacontessa: Simone de Beauvoir
Nov 15th
lacontessa: Jean Gabriel DOMERGUE (1889-1962)
Nov 15th
People here often lightly say that religions are misogynistic or patriarchal. But it takes a Chechen...
Nov 15th
“Picture this. You’re one of France’s best-known living...”
— From a 2007 interview with...
Nov 15th
“Novel-writing has of late years devolved so largely upon...”
— The Economist, March 5, 1859,...
Nov 15th
lacontessa: Hotel Room (1931) by Edward Hopper. -via...
Nov 15th
Warch Watch
abbyjean: a performance piece on the correct gay usage of the finger snap, from the 1990...
Nov 14th
A brief history of agony aunts
Nov 13th
lindaboucher: mabelmoments: Andre Jordan via...
Nov 13th
robot-heart: fairy lights (via pearled)
Nov 13th
lacontessa: Clara Bow
Nov 13th
(generate your own tumblrcloud)
Nov 13th
“Edelstein says that though the film’s message is that...”
— Fatshionista (via ilovefat)...
Nov 13th
oldhollywood: “I said to this priest: ‘Am I expected to...
Nov 12th
From The New Yorker, via Feministe
Nov 12th

Results of Representations of Women in...

We counted how many women performers, artists and directors were featuring in Bristol’s...
Nov 12th
Representations of Women in the Media
Nov 12th
Male mid-life crisis blah blah blah.
Nov 12th
Hourly wage rates, compiled by the Office of National...
Nov 12th
lacontessa: moonweed: (via urix)
Nov 12th
lacontessa: Photo by Eugene Atget. 1890’s.
Nov 12th
BBC NEWS | Health | New warning on 'perfect...
Nov 12th
Warch Watch
lacontessa: newwavetimewarp: The Pretenders’ “Brass In Pocket” single came out November 12,...
Nov 12th
katoleary: stillawannablessedbe: (Via.)
Nov 12th
Listen Listen
onemoretimewithfeeling: The Pixies - La La Love You
Nov 12th

Seamus Heaney, Song

bingoparaphernalia: A rowan like a lipsticked girl. Between the by-road and the main road Alder...
Nov 11th
oldhollywood: “I hope there’s a tinge of disgrace about...
Nov 11th
“Are you with me here? There’s no such thing as a girl play....”
— Playwright Marsha Norman Talks...
Nov 11th
lacontessa: by Julian Paul Internet Reading Face No. 999
Nov 11th
“The movie’s one jarring fault is, unexpectedly, its...”
— Hadley Freeman
Nov 11th
Climate change is not a feminist issue
Nov 11th
oldhollywood: Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria (1957,...
Nov 11th

On Remembrance Day, I want to be clear...

stillawannablessedbe: I call myself a pacifist, but I do not mean by that that I believe all...
Nov 11th
GETTY IMAGES: A creation by Ather Hafeez at the first...
Nov 10th
Brief encounters of the worst kind
Nov 10th
“But the point of whether abortion should be legally...”
— Women’s rights, hung out...
Nov 10th
lacontessa: “La Vierge” [c. 1955] by Man Ray • Color...
Nov 10th
“Girls, if boys say something that’s not funny, you don’t...”
— Amy Poehler (at Glamour’s...
Nov 10th
bingoparaphernalia: alywoowho just linked to The Thrilling...
Nov 10th
In its report, Women and Health – the first global comparison of women’s health from birth to...
Nov 10th
Let’s skip lunch, say the hungry generation
Nov 9th
“But, if feminism becomes a politics of identity, it can...”
— Ariel Levy (via Jezebel)
Nov 9th
Listen Listen
suckmyleftone: missworld: The Muffs — Kids In America
Nov 9th
Women are their own worst enemies, says Lord...
Nov 8th
“Athill is best known for Stet, her account of a life in...”
— Erica Wagner on Diana Athill’s...
Nov 8th
Where's the 'literary lad lit' section?
Nov 8th
Having sought and found role models close to hand, first my parents and my grandfather, later my...
Nov 8th
“In countries all over the world today, women live with the...”
— Rid the world of female...
Nov 8th
A detail from The Hoerengracht, the Kienholzes’...
Nov 8th
Francesca Martinez: A wobbly girl's battle...
Nov 8th
“Apparently dinosaurs still roam the earth. They’re all...”
— Kathy Lette quoted in the...
Nov 8th
“That right there, in >140 characters, is possibly the...”
— Penny Red on the tweet by...
Nov 7th
Warch Watch
Nov 7th
Poetry in motion: The guerrilla wordsmiths bringing a...
Nov 7th
Penelope Trunk: Why I tweeted about my...
Nov 7th
“More women than men applied to the school in 1919, and...”
— Haus proud: The women of...
Nov 7th
lacontessa: Von George De Fleure. via
Nov 7th
onesong: realrealsoft: Glamour: “You’re talking about...
Nov 7th
“I got a glimmer of an answer last year as I sat in a board...”
— Lizzie Skurnick for President....
Nov 7th
“Butler suggests to her readers that this sly send-up of the...”
— Martha Nussbaum, The Professor...
Nov 5th
Gabourey Sidibe: “I think people look at me and...
Nov 4th
“In London, recorded homophobic attacks are up by 20 per...”
— Violence against gay people...
Nov 4th
...the first significant survey of girls’...
Nov 4th
“Yet the sheer redundancy of sex object culture does not...”
— Natalie Szarek
Nov 4th
Warch Watch
noraleah: “Three Is a Magic Number” … from my head to yours. It says something about you when and...
Nov 4th
lacontessa: Illustration for Le Sphinx by Iwan Gilkin,...
Nov 4th
abbyjean: thepoliticalpartygirl i have a bag that i can’t...
Nov 4th
Listen Listen
bingoparaphernalia: The Stone Roses - She Bangs The Drums This bass line. Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
Nov 3rd
Was 1989 a revolution strictly for the boys?
Nov 3rd
Arguably, Wishman opened up a space for more political women. Among them was Beverly Sebastian, who...
Nov 3rd
“And what was the big story concerning women during the last...”
—  Good luck, Liz Truss | Tanya...
Nov 3rd
“No means no” operates on the outdated assumption that men...”
— The Sexist | On the Difficulty...
Nov 3rd
“There is no more urgent battleground over which to fight...”
— Hands off our hems
Nov 2nd
“One of only two women in her unit, she said, she was...”
— Women at Arms - A Combat Role,...
Nov 2nd
“For instance, this morning there was the most adorable...”
— be cool, soda pop:
Nov 2nd
“Poor people are likely to bear the brunt as the climate...”
— Population control is not what...
Nov 2nd
“If you ask girls and women how they would feel about...”
— The cost of living in a...
Nov 2nd
Record numbers of women imprisoned
Nov 2nd

Regarding the performance of...

stillawannablessedbe: I have remarkably little interest in anyone’s pubic hair grooming habits...
Nov 2nd
If She’s Not Having Fun You Have To Stop -...
Nov 2nd
“Rather than, say, acknowledging that as women have more...”
— - sadydoyle (via...
Nov 1st
Warch Watch
Nov 1st
“Women who are so fortunate as to have the luxury of defining...”
— Susan Faludi in Slate twelve...
Nov 1st
“It is in the nature of young people to seek to rebel against...”
— Dear Hannah Betts, It is...
Nov 1st
Warch Watch
“A man who has been the indisputable favourite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a...
Nov 1st
From the trivial to the titillating, the...
Nov 1st
“Are you a good wife? There is something awkward about this...”
— The good wife charter - and...
Nov 1st