She's So Unusual
In her riveting graphic memoir Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi lifted the veil off what it was like to be a smartass Iranian girl in a rapidly changing world. Now as her story is prepared for the big screen, she looks back on her journey from heretic to counterculture heroine.
BUST, Dec/Jan 2008
Drip Stop
The new arsenal of anti-dampness tools, tested by a rampant perspirer.
New York Magazine, July 20, 2008
To cut my breasts off, or not to cut my breasts off
After testing positive for the "breast cancer gene," "Gilmore Girls" writer Jessica Queller made a radical choice -- a preventive double mastectomy.
Salon.com, April 2, 2008
A Woman's Space
No frakking around: Battlestar Galactica might just be the most feminist show on TV.
ELLE, April, 2008
Geisha
grrrls
The author of a new book about gender in Japan sets aside Western
stereotypes and talks about how ordinary women are fueling a feminist
revolution that's transforming the country.
Salon.com,
January 2007
Brooklyn,
Ink
A peripatetic
comic-book heroine comes to Brooklyn.
Time Out New York,
October 2006
Ancestor-Worship
Chic
Do cramped New Yorkers want the spirits of their departed forebears
as roommates?
New York Magazine,
August 2006
Two-Year
Colleges Tough Turf for Women's Studies
Women's studies proponents struggle for an in at community colleges, where
some students think the discipline might be about housekeeping and child
care. Fourth in a series on women and education.
Women's eNews, May 2005
Nice ice
Lab-made diamonds are as dazzling as those mined by third-world labor.
This
bling may be easier on your conscience -- and your wallet.
Salon.com, December 2004
TV Show Raises Grim Realities of Emotional Abuse
A husband-and-wife team on a reality-TV show offered the spectacle of an apparently
emotionally abusive relationship. This type of abuse is not illegal
and
experts say many women who suffer it are not taken seriously.
Women's eNews, January 2005
The calculus of coitus
A new book explores "The Rule of 12 Bonks" and other mathematical
equations
that help explain sex and relationships.
Salon.com , September 2004
Women vs. Wal-Mart
Just in time for holiday shopping, a new book portrays the world's largest
retailer as greedy, sanctimonious and grossly unfair to its female employees.
Salon.com, November 2004
No Sex in This City
Review of “Ill-Equipped for a Life of Sex” by Jennifer Lehr
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2004