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In a new essay, Caitlin Flanagan rips into Helen Gurley Brown, the steno pool and adulterers
By Amy Benfer
August 12, 2009
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Reassessing the weird sexual politics of Hughes' classic teen comedies
By Amy Benfer
August 11, 2009
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The wife of a real-life "Mad Man" speaks
By Amy Benfer
August 6, 2009
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A Scottish researcher makes the scientific argument for bareback
By Amy Benfer
August 4, 2009
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Newsweek delves into the ethics of polyamory
By Amy Benfer
July 30, 2009
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Can't a lady celebrity ever win?
By Amy Benfer
July 28, 2009
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Should MTV show the other side of teen pregnancy?
By Amy Benfer
July 24, 2009
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French feminists don bikini tops, national mourning ensues
By Amy Benfer
July 23, 2009
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And while TV often bungles what it's like to be a teen mother, MTV's reality series got it (mostly, movingly) right
By Amy Benfer
July 23, 2009
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Should corporate parenting bloggers get shamed out of the sisterhood?
By Amy Benfer
July 17, 2009
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Norma McCorvey's strange journey from abortion rights symbol to pro-life activist arrested at the Sotomayor hearing
By Amy Benfer
July 14, 2009
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Oprah's magazine enters the fascinating world of adult sex education
By Amy Benfer
July 9, 2009
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Caitlin Flanagan hopes we all live miserably ever after
By Amy Benfer
July 7, 2009
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Seed sales are way up, and raising your own food is all the rage. It's a good time to be an urban farmer
By Amy Benfer
July 4, 2009
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The nation urges a middle-aged Christian man to follow his heart. Is this romance -- or shrewd political strategy?
By Amy Benfer
July 2, 2009
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Beliefnet's Steve Waldman suggests the difference between abortion and adoption is a cheap cash payment
By Amy Benfer
June 29, 2009
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The compulsively readable e-mails of Mark Sanford -- Christian martyr, reckless romantic
By Amy Benfer
June 25, 2009
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The parenting memoir stretches back much further than you think
By Amy Benfer
June 23, 2009
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Sandra Tsing Loh on divorcing in middle age
By Amy Benfer
June 18, 2009
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Author Kate Christensen talks about acting on desire, clueless shrinks and illicit romps in Mexico
By Amy Benfer
June 18, 2009
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College loans shouldn't create a class of the "educated poor"
By Amy Benfer
June 16, 2009
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Susan Orlean wonders if women writers spend too much time on "home and kid stuff."
By Amy Benfer
June 11, 2009
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Finally, we're paying attention to the working women who actually need to work.
By Amy Benfer
June 10, 2009
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A social history of the frat boy
By Amy Benfer
June 4, 2009
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A new wave of writing supplants the petty anxieties of a tiny group of very privileged families. Finally.
By Amy Benfer
June 2, 2009
Who you calling white trash?
I actually was 16 and pregnant
How does your city garden grow?
Sex and the (fortysomething) single girl
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