TIME Olympic Covers Feature Women Athletes as . . . Athletes
Distinctive for depicting America's female Olympic athletes as strong, powerful and individual, TIME's Olympic covers are notable just for portraying the women as athletes.
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FEMEN-ism in the Fan Zone: Women Laying Bodies on the Line
As women use their bodies as instruments of resistance and protest, one would only hope cameras would pay attention to them with their clothes on.
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Breast of Times, Worst of Times: "Nursing in Uniform" Photos Draw Fire
Opposition to the breastfeeding service member epitomizes skepticism about women’s ability to be “real” soldiers and “real” women.
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Campaign ’12 Stereotypes: “Forward”-Thinking Women as "Stepford Voters"
Depicting women as enamored with the candidates for whom they vote is nothing new. If anything, though, what you're looking at is a policy swoon.
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Foreign Policy's Painted Lady: Sex Issue Cover Model Too Sexy For "Her Burqa"
Foreign Policy quickly went viral last week, illustrating the public’s appetite for serious coverage of global gender issues. Ironically, the visuals that graced the cover and accompanied the essay suggest that FP’s editors thought they needed to appeal to a different appetite in order to sell their magazine.
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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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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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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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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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