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Personal fitness for women used to be considered unladylike. That all changed with fitness pioneers like Lotte Berk and Judi Sheppard Missett. But look closer and there’s much more to the story than jazz shoes and leg warmers.
Way back in 1997, I invented citing Olympic sta...
That women athletes were about to catch up with men was a widespread belief among academics and the public a quarter of a century ago, although that has been memory-holed. Common Feminist Fallacies of the Past like this get rapidly forgotten because they don’t fit into the overarching narrative that society was incredibly racist and sexist until, roughly, last week.
Carol Dyhouse’s Love Lives examines how Cinderella stories have shaped women’s expectations By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar family life. We tried, like most parents we know, to steer our three-year-old away from “girly girl” culture, but even so, she has spent the past year flouncing around in princess dresses and asking everyone to marry her. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised; princesses are, after all, beautiful, noble and, even when they are complete drips or comatose and waiting for a...