One shoe could fit all — if shoes weren’t gendered

Editor’s Note: Author Christine Cox is a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
Why do we separate women’s shoes from men’s shoes?
I work in a shoe store, and I’ve noticed how people behave when it comes to the whole gender issue. Our [...]

Women athletes deserve a full stadium too

Editor’s Note: This post was written by Leah Taylor, a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
In today’s society, men rule the world of sports and always have. Have you ever seen a full stadium at a WNBA basketball [...]

Gendered by purple pens and buzz cuts

Editor’s Note: This post was written by Jessica Hale, a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
It is too late to fix us.
Here I sit, twenty years old, and gendered as can be. My hair is long, my sweatshirt [...]

If you seek Amy is negative influence on teen girls

Editor’s Note: This post was written by a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
Last month a friend and I won tickets to the Britny Spears concert in Pittsburgh through a contest on the radio. In spite of the [...]

Take action for pay equity for women

On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for employers to pay men and women different wages for the same work. Today, April 28, 2009, women still do not have pay equity.
Women in 2009 make 78 cents for every dollar a man earns. And we are are still [...]

How will Octomom do it?

Editor’s Note: This post was written by a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
The way our economy is running today, most families may view it as impossible to raise one child, let alone 14.
Yes, we view these entertaining [...]

What’s in a name anyway?

Editor’s Note: This post was written by a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
I got married when I was 21. Though I was rather young, it was something that I felt compelled to do, and I was completely [...]

Close your eyes and imagine

Editor’s Note: This post was written by a graduate student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
Close your eyes and imagine this happening to you, your daughter, your sister, your mother…
The grandmother or an older woman officiates…
…all girls, without [...]

We fight for equality, yet seek male approval. Is there something wrong here?

Editor’s Note: This post was written by a student in the Spring 2009 Feminist Theory class in The University of Akron’s Women’s Studies Program. To read more student posts, click here.
One normal afternoon I get an e-mail from my mother telling me I need to go out and immediately buy this book titled Act Like [...]

On reading women and counting beans

In “Beyond Bean Counting,” author JeeYeun Lee says that every time she is in a room, she “automatically count[s] those whom [she] can identify as women, men, people of color, Asian Americans, mixed-race people, whites, gays and lesbians, bisexuals, heterosexuals, people with disabilities.”
When Lee received the call for submissions for the Feminist Theory Reader, she “imagined [...]