The F-Word Forum, part of the Ideas at the House series, was held at the Sydney Opera House this past Sunday and promised a robust discussion on modern global feminism, featuring world-renowned feminists, Germaine Greer and Naomi Wolf. Greer and Wolf both had hour-long slots for the first portion of this day of feminist debate,…
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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf is the talk of lip at the moment! Despite it pretty much being required reading for Feminism 101, I only got around to reading The Beauty Myth this past weekend. There have been arguments that feminism and feminist theory is too deeply welled in academia, and that it can…
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The book that made me realise that I was a feminist was “The Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf. It is essentially about the ways in which images of beauty are used against both men and women to make us feel more vulnerable. The book has chapters focusing on different aspects of life, work, religion, culture,…
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After discovering lip magazine in 2011 I realised that I was quite the feminist. I always have been but I never connected my opinions with feminism or even really tried to understand what feminists believed in. That is, until now. The problem is that I know that I am a feminist and I am all…
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