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Sheryl Sandberg's 'Lean In' Is Faux Feminism
In light of Sheryl Sandberg’s campus initiative to promote her best-seller, Lean In, bell hooks, in a piece at the Feminist Wire, is critical of Sandberg’s “simplistic description of the feminist movement.” Sandberg’s brand of feminism, she argues, flies in the face of the work that so many scholars have done to clarify and strengthen the equality for women movement. …
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'Beasts of the Southern Wild': Old Stereotypes
The film Beasts of the Southern Wild, released in July, has been widely acclaimed as one of the best independent films of the year by everyone from the New Yorker to Ebony. The story follows a 10-year-old girl named Hushpuppy as she braves her native Bathtub region, located just outside of civil society, where she and…