<![CDATA[BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine]]>

false <![CDATA[BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172112090m/139657.jpg 139657 1 <div>In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply thoughtful about the way the pop landscape reflects and impacts women’s lives, Bitch grew to be a popular, full-scale magazine with a readership that stretched worldwide. Today it stands as a touchstone of hip, young feminist thought, looking with both wit and irreverence at the way pop culture informs feminism—and vice versa—and encouraging readers to think critically about the messages lurking behind our favorite television shows, movies, music, books, blogs, and the like. BITCHFest offers an assortment of the most provocative essays, reporting, rants, and raves from the magazine’s first ten years, along with new pieces written especially for the collection. Smart, nuanced, cranky, outrageous, and clear-eyed, the anthology covers everything from a 1996 celebration of pre-scandal Martha Stewart to a more recent critical look at the "gayby boom"; from a time line of black women on sitcoms to an analysis of fat suits as the new blackface; from an attempt to fashion a feminist vulgarity to a reclamation of female virginity. It’s a recent history of feminist pop-culture critique and an arrow toward feminism’s future.</div> 134623 8 8 2006 BITCHfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine total:509|5:201|4:206|3:89|2:8|1:5| 509 2117 904 83 2 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 29 06:38:38 -0700 2007 Tue May 29 06:39:09 -0700 2007 disappoint. The worst fault is that the articles heavily reference
popular culture, for example TV shows that I know nothing about.
However, it points out many hypocrisies and elucidates their possible
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The first thing people notice ab...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 28 07:50:55 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 06:28:31 -0700 2009 Bitch Magazine you'd like this look back over the last 10 years. I didn't always agree with the author's point of view, but each essay raised interesting questions about gender and gender roles in American society.more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed May 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 06:59:58 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 07:08:33 -0700 2009
When I took a class on writing the personal essay, one of my classmates thought that my essays would be a good fit for "Bitch."

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I just watched a children's cartoon where a sea-faring boy and his captain friend are on an island populated by monkeys and one woman, named Matthew (yup) who...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 06 23:37:49 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 10 17:50:24 -0700 2008 BITCH Magazine, from the mid 90's was the fresh new voice of the woman's movement as viewed through the eyes of a much younger, hipper crowd than Ms. Magazine. In fact BITCH started out as a Zine, A few pages of writing on a topic in this case feminism, copied and stapled and mailed to whoever is in...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 15:09:04 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 15:19:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 26 21:12:08 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 21:25:14 -0800 2008
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some of the articles in the magazine itself are pretty out there. like, my little ponies teach little girls ho...more...]]> 0 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Apr 19 10:28:02 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 19 10:28:43 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 25 09:02:12 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 09:03:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Dec 07 08:13:30 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 02 13:27:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=139657