msmagazine.com - 1/11/2009
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FEATURE | winter 2008 Visions for Change By Eleanor Smeal, publisher, Ms. magazine In choosing the cover for this special Inaugural issue, Ms . wanted to capture both the national and feminist mood of high expectations and hope as the 44th President of the United States takes the oath of ...
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Ms. Magazine Trades In Wonder Woman for Super Man
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
... This is what a feminist looks like?? File this one under: Does Feminism Even Need Women? While progressives lament and metaphorically pull their hair out over the sad fact that President-elect Obama is not a progressive, the easy to please feminists over at Ms. Magazine put Barack Obama on the cover and gush like teeny-boppers that Obama is some Feminist Super Man who will, presumably, save us little wimin. ...
Barack the Feminist
Shakesville —
... According to the press release (and a note on their site here), the cover was conceived after Ms.' publisher, Eleanor Smeal, and chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation board, Peg Yorkin, met Barack Obama and "he immediately offered 'I am a feminist'.” ...
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