{"id":53,"date":"2007-03-16T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2007-03-16T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T14:20:00","slug":"from-onlydom-to-sisterhoodinterrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/03\/16\/from-onlydom-to-sisterhoodinterrupted\/","title":{"rendered":"From Onlydom to Sisterhood&#8230;.Interrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to turn my attention from only-childhood to sisterhood.  <\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been following the thread on TPC in response to <a>Jessica Valenti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feminist Sorority\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> and am struck once again by the way feminists are repeating the personal, political, ideological infighting of the past\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly this time, with a generational veneer.  <\/p>\n<p>I salute Jessica for raising these issues, and I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait for the release of her <a>book<\/a> (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m with those who think the cover is savvy, though I understand the critique).  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the response to her article that concerns me more than the article itself.  So much pain, accusation, and hurt\u00e2\u20ac\u201don both sides.  Where is this taking us?<\/p>\n<p>Coming back from a talk I gave at Rowan University last week to kick off Women&#8217;s History Month, where the audience was part NOW founders, part undergraduates, and part faculty\/staff, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been thinking a lot about how young(er) women and veteran feminists can speak to each other in tones that enable their message to be heard.  And the need for media-savvy feminists to forge bridges that steer the conversation away from intergenerational catfight and back to the issues we care about in common.  I sincerely believe we have more in common than contradiction.  And that the ever-widening age gap has the potential to diminish us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to turn my attention from only-childhood to sisterhood. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been following the thread on TPC in response to Jessica Valenti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Feminist Sorority\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and am struck once again by the way feminists are repeating the personal, political, ideological infighting of the past\u00e2\u20ac\u201donly this time, with a generational veneer. I salute Jessica for raising these issues, [&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-53","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\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}