Feminist Friday 10/5
A weekly list of feminist thought from around the web.
BRETT KAVANAUGH, TENNIS DRESS CODES, NOBEL PRIZES
NEWS & COMMENTARY
The Last Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Physics Did the Work Without Being Paid by Sarah Laskow
One Wikipedia Page is a Metaphor for the Nobel Prize’s Record with Women by Marina Koren
What the Nobels are—and aren’t—doing to encourage diversity by Elizabeth Gibney
The Tennis Dress Code Racket by Amy August
Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, and the Things Men Do for Other Men by Jia Tolentino
Brett Kavanaugh and the Cruelty of Male Bonding by Lili Loofbourow
We Are Not the Resistance by Michelle Alexander
Christine Blasey Ford & Cultural Amnesia: Women didn’t report date rape in 1982 by Jessica Valenti
Now is an Especially Terrible Time for Texas to Stop Teaching Kids About Helen Keller by Robyn Powell
Men Are More Afraid Than Ever by Lili Loofbourow
Doctor to the Stars Disciplined Over Use of Controversial Menopause Therapy by Barbara Feder Ostrov
British Ultrarunner Sophie Power Takes on UTMB While Breastfeeding by Ben Hobson
Freddie Oversteegen, Dutch resistance fighter who killed Nazis through seduction, dies at 92
FEATURES & LONG READS
Kids Don’t Damage Women’s Careers—Men Do by Jessica Valenti
Farewell to the Olympian Scientist by Brendan P. Foht
Doctors dismissed her, but she turned out the be right after years of needless suffering by Sandra G. Boodman
The Phantom Reckoning by Megan Garber
The Rise and Fall of the American Breastaurant by Sascha Cohen
The Great Equalizer: Barbara Ehrenreich and the ethics of dying by Megan Erickson
Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong by Michael Hobbes
The Person Running Your Favorite Football Team’s Twitter is Probably a Woman by Britni de la Cretaz
No, I Will Not Debate You by Laurie Penny
Our Sister Becky: What if the doctors had listened to her? by Kare Beaton
Because Men by Tavonne Carson
How Very Bad Men Get Away With Rape by Jessica Valenti
All the Rage by Rebecca Solnit
Seizing the Means of Reproduction by Emily Callaci
More Than a Name: A Content Analysis of Name Authority Records for Authors Who Self-Identify as Trans by Kelly J. Thompson
Recognizing Women Historians’ Expertise: An Interview with the Co-Founders of Women Also Know History by Marilou Tanguay
Victoria Wiet, #MeToo, Actress Novels, and the Radical Potential of a Forgotten Victorian Genre by Victorian Studies
Seema Jaswal: ‘We’re seeing more women in sports media, but there’s still a long way to go’ by Nick Ames
Q&A with Sari Altschuler, Author of The Medical Imagination by The Junto
If Men Had to Get IUDs, They’d Get Epidurals and a Hospital Stay by Casey Johnston
The Automation Charade by Astra Taylor
‘X-Files, but lesbians and magic’: Leah Williams Writing New Neo-Noir Comic, R(ENDER) by Zack Quaintance
