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SlutWalks: Feeling Free vs. Being Free

October 15th, 2011 by Elizabeth Debold· 21 Comments · Culture, Feminism, Women's liberation

In January, Toronto police constable Michael Sanguinetti made a gaffe that has sparked a worldwide protest among young women and their supporters. Sanguinetti was speaking about women’s safety at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School when he suggested that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” There you have it: [...]

The Puzzle of Postmodern Women’s Leadership

April 19th, 2011 by Elizabeth Debold· 50 Comments · Agency/Eros, Andrew Cohen, Consciousness, Culture, Evolution of consciousness, Feminism, Uncategorized

“My generation, really sadly, is not going to change the numbers at the top. They are just not moving. We are 50% of the population, in my generation there will not be 50% of women at the top of any industry,” said Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg at TEDWomen. I felt a kind of cold chill hearing that. Sandberg [...]

Celebrating Mary Wollstencraft

March 15th, 2011 by Renata· 1 Comment · Culture, Feminism, Uncategorized, women, Women's history

Here in London the whole week was packed with events relating to celebrating 100th International Women’s day. My friend Kyrsten and I decided to pay tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft, who had lived and worked many years of her life in Stoke Newington, London. Wollstonecraft, born in 1759, was probably one of the first feminists we [...]

For the 100th Anniversary of Int’l Women’s Day

March 8th, 2011 by Elizabeth Debold· 1 Comment · Culture, Feminism, Uncategorized, women, Women's liberation

As our sisters in Egypt risked their lives by marching in Tahrir Square today, it made me think about those of us in the West who have already won the right to walk where we please, say what we want, and pretty much do want we want with our lives. Even so, the changes here [...]

Women Awakening…to the Power of Choice

November 10th, 2010 by Elizabeth Debold· 2 Comments · Andrew Cohen, Culture, Evolution of consciousness, Feminism, Uncategorized, women

“I do think there is an awakening happening among women,” Marianne Schnall, founder of feminist.com, said to me, “and it needs help and we need to support each other. We have so many choices now but if we don’t know who we are then we won’t know how to make those choices count.” I agree [...]

A Feminist who has a Male Spiritual Teacher?

March 25th, 2010 by Elizabeth Debold· 14 Comments · Andrew Cohen, Consciousness, Culture, Feminism, Uncategorized, Women's liberation

Fourteen years ago, I was forty years old, had recently received my doctorate from Harvard where I’d worked with Carol Gilligan in a small research collective that was charting new developmental pathways for girls and women, and had co-authored a bestselling book about how to transform the mother-daughter relationship in the hopes that the next generations of women [...]

Why Does the Romantic Fantasy Continue???

March 1st, 2010 by Elizabeth Debold· 4 Comments · Agency/Eros, Culture, Uncategorized, women

I just read a fascinating interview with Lori Gottlieb, author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. Apparently, just the title–and the suggestion of “settling” in a relationship–has made women go bonkers. Gottlieb says that women are angrily buzzing in the blogosphere about the book, even though many haven’t read it. It goes [...]

The Super Bowl War Between the Sexes

February 14th, 2010 by Elizabeth Debold· 7 Comments · Culture, Masculinity, Uncategorized, women

The Super Bowl isn’t just the annual playoff of pro football’s league champions–a day of beer, betting, whistling, cheers, and potato chips. Every year, the commercials that run during football’s most frenzied fan space provide a glimpse into the current status of the war between the sexes. Years ago, in fact, rumors that Super Bowl Sunday [...]

In Honor of the Extraordinary, Courageous, and Obstreperous Mary Daly

February 14th, 2010 by Elizabeth Debold· 1 Comment · Culture, Feminism, women, Women's liberation

I’ve been very remiss in not noting Mary Daly’s passing on January 6, 2009. The New York Times did a very respectful obituary, noting the significance of her contribution to feminist and religious thought. Daly, in case you don’t know her, was a powerful theologian. One of the first women to study theology and, from [...]

Who am I? How shall I live?

July 15th, 2009 by Alka Arora· 1 Comment · Culture, Evolution of consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, women

Both perennial spiritual questions. In 2007 several of my spiritual sisters and myself, committed to pioneering a new stage in culture, wanting to create a new ground between us as women and a true partnership with men, sat down one day and created this (wo)manifesto (read Elizabeth Debold’s blog) below…The Ten Challenges of a Liberated [...]

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