Poli Psy: Post-Hillary Feminism
Published June 18, 2008
For a while there — especially during the tense days between Obama’s victory and Clinton’s belated exit — it looked as if American feminism might not recover from the Democratic primary contest. The media were spotlighting feminist mothers and their “post-feminist” daughters bickering like, well, mothers and daughters. Hillary was holding hostage her “18 million [...]
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Poli Psy: “Man Enough”
Published January 31, 2008
A women’s magazine I used to write for kept a large three-ring binder filled with story ideas. One section was called “Emo,” though, this being a women’s magazine, all the features were about emotions. Most of them were negative ones, which, presumably, the right shoes or handbag would clear right up (See: Accessories, page 116). [...]
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Poli Psy: “A Father’s Tears”
Published December 6, 2007
The brochure is celestial blue with wafting clouds. Its cover is darkest, suggesting a lowering storm; each successive panel grows lighter. The logo is a dove. Last week’s two-day San Francisco conference “Reclaiming Fatherhood: A Multifaceted Examination of Men Dealing with Abortion” clearly hoped to move men in a heavenly direction. But the presentations’ titles [...]
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Poli Psy: Basic Instinct?
Published May 10, 2006
Mother. Say the word and emotions rush forth. I’m not just talking about the love and guilt that moved 152 million Mother’s Day cards off the shelves last year. As an email from Jane Williamson of Ferrisburgh’s Rokeby Museum reminded me, motherhood is more than personal. It’s symbolic, religious . . . and political. “The [...]