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Bond Girl Power

Love / Shove post by Kjerstin Johnson on November 19, 2008 - 2:25pm; tagged feminism, film, media criticism, reviews.
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While there’s a lot a feminist critique of Quantum of Solace, the new James Bond flick, could cover, such as the other-ing of the voiceless "ethnic" communities/Bond’s sense of entitlement to their culture and resources, Judy Dench’s role as M, or the current, very real political turbulence in Bolivia (FYI? George Bush is still our president), this post mainly focuses on the use of the rape-revenge themes and surprise, surprise, the objectification of women found in the movie. And yes, there are spoilers.
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Bitch Radio Episode 1 : Wired and Inspired

Audio post by Debbie Rasmussen on May 2, 2008 - 10:09pm; tagged audio, Feminist Porn Awards, podcasts, porn, reviews, Second Life, technology, Wired issue.
Hear Bitch's first podcast with features from the Wired issue. Hear updates from the Feminist Porn Awards, a feminist take on Second Life, and an article from Bitch's archives.
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Hard Times

Hard Times
Article by Sarah Seltzer, appeared in issue Wired; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged antifeminist women, book reviews, gender equity, highbrow catfight, media, new york times, reviews.
At the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>, all the misogyny is fit to print
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The New York Times Book Review has never exactly embraced passionate advocacy—unless it was promoting Pynchon’s and DeLillo’s place in the postmodernist canon. Even worse, it has become the place where serious feminist books come to die— or more accurately, to be dismissed with the flick of a well-manicured postfeminist wrist.


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Bitch Reads #2

Article by Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler, appeared in issue Issue #2; published in 1996; filed under Books; tagged Alison Bechdel, book reviews, Brian Fawcett, dykes, gender, lesbian, Nadine Strossen, porn, queer, reviews, Sallie Tisdale, sex, Sharon Thompson, teens.
Reviewed in this issue: Defending Pornography, by Nadine Strossen; Gender Wars, by Brian Fawcett; Talk Dirty To Me, by Sallie Tisdale; Going All the Way: Teenage Girls’ Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy, by Sharon Thompson; and Unnatural Dykes to Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel
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Bitch Suggested Listening #1

Reviewed in this issue: Red Aunts, #1 Chicken (Epitaph); Cub, Betti-Cola (Mint); Cibo Matto, "Birthday Cake" b/w "Black Hole Sun"; Liz Phair, Juvenilia (Matador); Team Dresch, Personal Best (Chainsaw/Candy-Ass)
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