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 [...]
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“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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
Tags:Arielle Ford·Lori Gottlieb·marriage·Marry Him·Mr. Right·relationship·romance·Simone de Beauvoir·The Second Sex
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 [...]
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Last week Nicholas D. Kristof, columnist for the New York Times, published a powerful story about a Zimbabwean woman named Tererai Trent. Born in the impoverished African bush, Terarai’s story is one of sheer indomitable human spirit to push the limits of the possible. But what makes it particularly powerful, and the reason I wanted [...]
We are truly thrilled to announce that in January we’ll be offering Elizabeth’s telecourse, Beyond the Divine Feminine: Liberating Women’s Consciousness through History. This is not to be missed! If you heard her announce the course today on the Women on the Edge of Evolution series, please be sure to sign up for our email [...]
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I wanted to let everyone know the editors of this blog are attending the first annual Being and Becoming Retreat with Andrew Cohen. This is the official launch of the EnlightenNext Discovery Cycle, and we are very excited to be joining more than 270 other people from around the world, from July 25th-Aug 16th. We [...]
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Two month ago I saw Jetsunma Tensin Palmo in Frankfurt. I was deeply impressed by her. There are only a few women who have the courage to leave the world behind in search for something higher, for deeper meaning and purpose. She is one of those. Her message on this evening was very straight and challenged the audience quite [...]
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“Women Who Wore Pants Are Flogged in Public.” I read this headline in the New York Times yesterday, and the short accompanying article about how 13 women were recently arrested in a café in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, and punished for breaking the county’s strict Islamic law. Later the same day, I read another headline—emailed to me by a friend: “Women win the right to bathe topless in the swimming pools of Sweden’s third largest city.” The accompanying article explained that after sustained lobbying by a feminist group, the city of Malmo decided that, “We don’t define what bathing suits men should wear so it doesn’t make much sense to do it for women.” Besides, the city official added, “It’s not unusual for men to have large breasts that resemble women’s breasts.”
It’s in moments like that I become conscious, somewhat ashamedly, of just how much I tend to take for granted the freedoms I have as a woman in the Western world—freedoms that women before me fought hard for. And I also find myself questioning: just how free are we really?
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