Tag: Jennifer Lawrence

• February 14, 2014

  Women’s Bodies in Oscar Nominated Films

  Originally posted at Ms. Magazine Jake Flanagin at Pacific Standard and Victoria Dawson Hoff at Elle recently floated an interesting idea: The Oscars should be entirely segregated by gender. Their proposal would create categories such as Best Female Director and Best Female Writer in addition to the already segregated acting awards. Though this would lead…
• January 24, 2014

  Famous, Fearless, and Feminist

  Originally published by Ms. in the Biz When Beyoncé’s latest album dropped, feminists went nuts. This is not the first time they’ve gone nuts over Beyoncé: When Ms. Magazine put her on its cover earlier this year, its readers erupted in outrage that a woman who “writhes around,” scantily clad “for the benefit of men”…
• October 26, 2012

  A Feminist Guide to Watching Horror Movies, Part Two: It’s Not Just About Vampires

  This piece is Part Two in a three-part series. See here for part one. Since Edward Cullen first graced the pages of a young adult novel in 2005, vampires have been the sexy bad guys du jour. But it’s not just the lingering fear that sex might lead to death that makes these nightmarish manifestations…