In a curious, back-handed compliment, conservatives have appropriated feminist language in arguing that feminism itself is the cause of women’s problems today.
Tara Zahra
Tara Zahra completed an American Prospect writing fellowship in 1999 and is now a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
The Feminism Gap
“Feminists Don’t Know What to Think,” declared U.S. News & World Report in late September. Pointed editorials in the Atlanta Constitution and the New York Daily News condemned “Feminism’s Double Standard” and “Silent Feminists’ Shame.” Maureen Dowd even proclaimed in her New York Times column that feminists had committed “mass suicide” by failing to condemn […]
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Art: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Account Executive
Economic impact studies can demonstrate a return on public investments in the arts. This is a handy tool for arts advocates, but also a dangerous one that reduces art to commercial calculus.