Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula (IFN): Why Are There So Few Female Top Executives in Egalitarian Welfare States? Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa (Babcock): Feminism: The Quest for an African Variant. Atsuko Kawakami (ASU): From an “Internationalist Woman” to “Just another Asian Immigrant”: Transformation of Japanese Women’s Self-Image before and after Permanent Settlement in a Western Country. Want to dump a troublesome husband, or unsuitable boyfriend? Just call Osamu Tomiya and his team of splitter-uppers, but you’ll have to move to Japan. From the Journal of International Women's Studies, a special issue on gender and Islam in Asia. The sudden flurry of interest in the mainstream press on gendercide suggests a significant cultural shift. A review of The Feminist Promise: 1792 to the Present by Christine Stansell. A review of Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham (and more and more and more and more). A review of Fifth Avenue, 5 AM: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson. A review of America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation by Elaine Tyler May. Rebellion was everywhere in the 60s, but Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch made the most audacious demand of all: for a feminist revolution that was personal and political (and more). The early sisters of Sarah Palin: A short history of "feminist" anti-feminists. A look at how conservative women politicians make life harder for working moms. Today's "mancession" will change everything: America is at a key moment in which the economy has shifted to favor women. Is our society on the verge of becoming a matriarchy? It's not the end of men: The problem isn't men; it's traditional gender stereotypes.
