From the inaugural issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Tiina Rosenberg (Lund): On Feminist Activist Aesthetics; and Anu Koivunen (Stockholm): Confessions of a Free Woman: Telling Feminist Stories in Postfeminist Media Culture. Feminism, what went wrong? It started with Girl Power and has sunk into mindless hedonism — why has sexual equality backfired? Robert Trundle (NKU): Women’s Fashion: Function of Sex or Social Construction? Women have been taking their clothes off in protest for centuries, but now that nudity is everywhere, is the naked body still an effective campaign tool? From TAP, are impossible beauty standards a subconscious cultural reaction against women's growing political power? The Word's Jan Freeman on the "female" question — or should it be "woman"? From The Economist, the rich world’s quiet revolution: Women are gradually taking over the workplace, but feminist management theorists are flirting with some dangerous arguments; and across the rich world more women are working than ever before; coping with this change will be one of the great challenges of the coming decades. Poverty has been feminized: How the economy derailed the Decade of the Single Woman. Is the Internet — and not the washing machine or the pill — the technology that finally liberated women? Not everything has changed: A review of The Unfinished Revolution: How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America by Kathleen Gerson. A review of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn.
