Through SCOTUS Demos & Visual Noise, Tea Party vs. Obama
The atmosphere was either “festive” and “wonderful” or filled with “hollering and screaming.” This image, however, hints at the broader deliberative dynamics shaping the health insurance debate.
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It's Reigning Men: Birth Control Panel As One Float in DC's Televised Patriarchy Parade
To be fair, although MSNBC producers did not bother to schedule any women pundits for this particular discussion, they did include the pink symbol for “female” as a badge of gender equity in their title graphic.
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Pussycats in the Clouds: Go Daddy Paints Super Bowl 2012
The visuals remind us that on Super Bowl Sunday, the only thing that viewers consume more of than chips and beer is women’s bodies.
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Salacious Sexiness in the Name of the "Larger" Feminist Ideal
What’s problematic about the PLUS Model layout is the way in which it turns the watchful eye of the male gaze on its ostensibly liberated subjects.
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(First) Ladies in Waiting
Whether it's Michelle Obama or the wives of the GOP candidates, one thing the pictures reveal is the persistence of gender norms.
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Women to the Back of the Bus: A Picture of Gender Apartheid from Israel to Borough Park's B110
Images emerging from Israel currently bear more than a little resemblance to pictures taken in Montgomery, Alabama 50+ years ago.
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Ahmadinejad's Ready-to-Wear: Government Approved to Make Women Look Islamic and Beautiful
Regarding "approved" clothing for Iranian women, Ahmadinejad’s “compromise” is not a step in the right direction. It’s a step in the same direction.
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Photo of Woman Stripped by Egyptian Military: Not Shamed, Not a Victim
This image does not portray a victim. It portrays a hero—a warrior waging a battle for democracy.
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"Blame the Victim": Stalking Horse for Cain Visualizes Accuser As "Ugly Bitch"
With unbridled speed, the Herman Cain sexual harassment controversy has already shifted from the “he said/she said” (and she said, and she said, and she said) stage to the unfortunately predictable “blame the victim” phase.
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Elizabeth Warren Cowgirls Up
After Texan Rick Perry galloped away with Michelle Bachmann’s Iowa thunder, perhaps Warren realized that the “don’t mess with . . .” message plays well above the Mason-Dixon line too.
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GOP Debate: Titanium Is A Girl's Best Friend
By supporting Bachmann, conservatives get to be “family (values) friendly” feminists. They can “make history” without disrupting tradition.
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Return of the Bug-Eyed Bachmann
Most people believe that we’ve moved beyond this level of sexism in our political culture, and many liberals are sanguine about the sexist implications of the recent Bachmann depictions, adopting a sort of “if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck . . .” mentality. The...
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Girls Gone Mad: the Wild-Eyed Lunacy of Bachmann, Palin, Pelosi, Clinton . . . Etc.
I’m no Bachmann apologist, but I am concerned about a troubling trend in which political women are critiqued as crackpots and lambasted as lunatics.
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Pimp My Politics: Front Groups Already Down and Dirty
Expect to see a resurgence of the visual techniques, trading on racist and sexist stereotypes, employed during 2008.
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G-8 Optics: After Strauss-Kahn’s Crash-and-Burn, Sarkozy Making Hay Off Trophy Wife’s Baby Bump?
With Strauss-Kahn’s presidential aspirations now extinguished, Sarkozy still enjoys showcasing his trophy wife, but with a new twist -- familial bliss.
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History and Herstory: Pie Town Pics Revisited
Critics of feminism have long suspected that the ultimate goal of the movement is to get rid of men. Their fears seem to be confirmed by artist Debbie Grossman’s “reimaging” of Russell Lee’s iconic photographic series portraying families in the rural New Mexican community of “Pie Town. Feminism, however,...
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France's Niqab Ban: Tricolor Face of the New Feminism
The French law states that women who cover in public are subject to a fine and also must enroll in a “citizenship course,” however, the young woman in this picture seems to understand citizenship better than the Sarkozy administration.
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Beyond Riveting
There’s nothing more “do it yourself” than being a woman scientist, and depicting Fried as Rosie does more to underscore her difference from other scientific geniuses than it does to suggest that science is no longer a boys’ club.
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