Monthly Archives: October 2010
Guest post: ‘You’re a what?: Veganism, feminism and self-identity’ by Colleen Hodgetts
(Editor’s note: Colleen Hodgetts is the senior editor of Gender Across Borders, where the Chicago-based writer posts about gender, race, sexuality and class issues happening around the world. If you’d like to write a guest post, e-mail me at broylesa@gmail.com.) … Continue reading
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Sex Selling Food, part 1: Pomegranates
Inspired by Mark Bittman’s This #$!% Has Got to Stop, welcome to Sex Selling Food, a series featuring the worst examples of sex/women’s bodies being used to sell food and drink products. POM Wonderful, with its curvaceous, bootylicious bottle, has … Continue reading
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Open thread: Feminism, BlogHer Food and the online food blogging world
Food blogs are predominately written by women. (Eighty percent is the figure I hear most frequently.) The food blog community is so full of passionate, ambitious women that the BlogHer network, one of the largest blogger networks in the world, … Continue reading
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What’s dignity going for these days? $500, says KFC
KFC’s Double Down sandwich: $5 Red sweatpants: $12 “Stipend” for services: $500 Falling into another sexist food marketing trap so that a fast food chain can use your behind to sell a salty breadless “sandwich” to men: Priceless
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