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where are the women

loaded question: what are some great movies about underappreciated women in history?

Mon, Sep 11, 2023
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And why aren’t there more of them? (Rhetorical question; we know why.) Do you know of a historical woman most of us have never heard of whom you’d love to see a movie about?

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Where Are the Women? criteria now in a German translation!

Sun, Aug 28, 2022
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Journalist Jasper Vormschlag approached me for permission to do the translation. So it’s an authorized translation… although I cannot vouch for its accuracy, because I don’t speak or write German.

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what do women want? ‘Little Women’ and ‘Hustlers’ have some answers

Wed, Jan 15, 2020
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Women want to be able to tell our own stories, and we want to be heard. Hustlers and Little Women are so much about this (and other important things of female concern) that they’re practically the same movie.

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curated: “Movies Starring Women Earn More Than Male-Led Films”

Wed, Dec 12, 2018
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This is even better than my Where Are the Women? project found…

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curated: Rose Macaulay, author, influenced Orwell and Huxley, forgotten and erased

Mon, Dec 10, 2018
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But her groundbreaking book is coming back into print (a century later).

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I’m highlighting female participation in a film with each new review

Fri, Jan 05, 2018
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Quick visual icons to the top of each review will indicate whether a film has a female director, writer, and/or protagonist.

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Where Are the Women? T-shirts… now for guys!

Thu, May 12, 2016
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You asked for Where Are the Women? tees for men, and here ya go. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Where Are the Women? wrapup essay in two alt-weekly newspapers

Thu, May 12, 2016
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[This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Where Are the Women? T-shirts!

Wed, May 11, 2016
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Support my Where Are the Women? project and stick it to the Hollywood man at the same time. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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Where Are the Women? rating criteria explained (updated!)

Thu, Apr 21, 2016
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Supplementary explanations for my Where Are the Women? rating criteria. [This post is not behind the paywall.]

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