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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 [...]

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 [...]

Triumph of a Dreamer

November 22nd, 2009 by Christiana Briddell· 4 Comments · Uncategorized, women

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 [...]

Evolutionary Sisterhood

July 16th, 2009 by Kyrsten Perry· No Comments · women, Women's liberation

Recently, I have had the good fortune of meeting an amazing woman named Aliya Haeri. Our friendship began earlier this year, and then I invited her to be a guest on our regular EnlightenNext webcast that I co-host with my partner Chris Parish. To listen to the webcast, click here. If you would like to listen to the [...]

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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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BBC Reports on Life Without Men

July 11th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold· 5 Comments · Culture, women

Well, a young feminist friend, Vanessa Fisher, sent me the link to this article from the BBC and I had to post it here. She commented that it was reverse sexism, taken to the extreme. It sure is. While it seems to be part of the evolutionary process that each stage of development pushes [...]