From Neo-Victorian Studies, Nadine Muller (Hull): Not My Mother’s Daughter: Matrilinealism, Third-wave Feminism and Neo-Victorian Fiction. From Psychology and Society, Petra Steiner and Barbara Pichler (Vienna): Objective Hermeneutic: Methodological Reflections on Social Structures in Women's Lives (and a response); and Julia Riegler (Vienna): Re-Constructing Women’s Experiences of Sexual Pain: The "Deviant" Body as an Object of Cultural Psychological and Feminist Consideration (and two responses). Two steps forward, one step back: Do women have the clout that they ought to in progressive politics? A review of Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World by Hester Eisenstein (and more). From Big Think's blog Dollars and Sex, do women really value income over looks in a mate? A review of Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo. Kerry Howley reviews Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century by Sheila Rowbotham's and Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Tenth Anniversary Edition by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. From Shameless, are sororities empowering, feminist organizations, or destructive, conformist cults? A review of Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference by Cordelia Fine. An interview with Chris Bobel, author of New Blood: Third Wave Feminism and the Politics of Menstruation. The political wing of the women’s sports movement is accustomed to challenging timid bureaucrats and university administrators, but in taking on TV sports coverage, they are challenging the market itself. Ladies, gaga: A look at what drag is doing for women. All style, no substance: Feminists have a fraught relationship with Michelle Obama's political agenda — or lack thereof.
