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Loved this look at the toxicity famous women faced in what she calls the “upskirt decade” from 1999 to 2013. It was a time of upheaval in how celebrity news was covered and privacy rights. She writes about Amy Winehouse and WWE‘s Chyna‘s descent into addiction and death. She covers the sexualization of Britney and Lindsay, and Paris and Kim‘s sex tapes. She also looks in on the impact of older stars Janet Jackson and Jen Aniston. Highly recommend!

I‘m struggling to articulate this one. Important; intersectional; staunchly anti capitalist and decolonial. I‘m in agreement with much of the book. A lot of it is very academic in language, and very French in its history covered but not inaccessible. A summary could be single issues will not win in struggles for equality, decolonisation must be strived for and respectability politics is futile. I need to read some fiction to feel less glum now.

Some helpful info in here but also several things you‘ll probably just toss to the side. Certainly worth reading and taking what works.

Last night, we went to see “Once Upon A One More Time” - a new Broadway musical where all the songs are Britney Spears hits. The plot centered around Cinderella, Snow White, & other princesses attempting to write their own happy ever after after reading Friedan‘s book (not kidding). Cindy‘s Fairy Godmother was Betty herself. A fever dream but incredibly fun! 💖😂✨🫶🏻🪩🧚🏻‍♀️

Both these items were sold at the merch booth. 🙌🏻 💪🏻

100 years ago today … This is one of the many reasons why feminism continues to be relevant and important. There are women still alive who were born before it was legal for them to wear pants in public.

Updated #14books14weeks2023 list
Next week! How did it come so fast.
I am working on getting some of the oldest books off my TBR bookcase. I have had some of these for seriously maybe a decade. Why have I not read them?

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This biography has provoked so many memories for me regarding my own separation from the Catholic Church & my own dawning feminism. Rich writes that “Daly‘s new book [Beyond God the Father: Towards a Philosophy of Women‘s Liberation] was the greatest feminist treatise since The Second Sex.”(Simone De Beauvoir) I experienced a rude awakening when I was a freshman of the first full class of women at a previously all male Catholic college. 🔽

It‘s February ! I just open my Christmas gift for this month 😊

There were an embarrassing number of women in music that I didn‘t know about. Here they are: Alexina Louie, Gaelynn Lea, Isabella Colbran, Jada Watson, Kassia, Mary Youngblood, Odetta, Quilla, Selena, Tanya Tagaq, Ulali, Valerie Capers, Wendy Melvoin, Xian Zhang, Yuja Wang, and Zenobia Powell Perry.

I'm glad I read this book. It was a long one, some parts were a bit outdated, some were a little weird (the comparisons to the Holocaust, for example), but many were very interesting and valuable. I loved Friedan's critique of Freud.
Also, though the situation was very different in Hungary in the 1960s, the book is eerily relevant in my country today, with the current government's family policy.