{"id":442,"date":"2007-11-29T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2007-11-29T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T17:12:00","slug":"feminism-aint-about-superwomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/11\/29\/feminism-aint-about-superwomen\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminism Ain&#8217;t About Superwomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R07mRjaxWdI\/AAAAAAAAAtM\/YljeOLI7f2w\/s1600-h\/new_statesman-1.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/R07mRjaxWdI\/AAAAAAAAAtM\/YljeOLI7f2w\/s200\/new_statesman-1.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>So says my gal and resident Gen Y-er Courtney.  Writes C:<br \/><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><br \/>The ugly truth about superwomen, my generation has come to realize, is that they tend to be exhausted, self-sacrificing, unsatisfied, and sometimes even self-loathing and sick. Feminism\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the progress it envisions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas never supposed to compromise women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health. It was supposed to lead to richer, more enlightened, authentic lives characterized by a deep sense of wellness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest, and more, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200711260001\">The New Statesman<\/a> this week, where Courtney is blogging it up on behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministing.com\">feministing<\/a>, which was asked to elucidate why they care deeply about a particular spiritual or intellectual philosophy.  Courtney is writing her take on, as she says, what feminism ain&#8217;t, what it is, and what it could be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says my gal and resident Gen Y-er Courtney. Writes C:The ugly truth about superwomen, my generation has come to realize, is that they tend to be exhausted, self-sacrificing, unsatisfied, and sometimes even self-loathing and sick. Feminism\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the progress it envisions\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwas never supposed to compromise women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s health. It was supposed to lead to richer, more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[71,21804],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-intergenerational","tag-sisterhood-is"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}