... it's plainly true. For proof, you need only read Ariel Levy's sprawling article in this week' ... the outcome considering that they're asking the wrong question to begin with. Levy, however, asks the right question: "If sex is not precisely definable ... to call into question the way we've organized sports -- and, as Levy puts it, "the way we've organized our entire world ...

... . Semenya's external sexual traits are female; however, as Ariel Levy reports in the November 30 New Yorker, Semenya, ... whether Semenya has an unfair advantage against other women athletes. As Levy notes, the resolution will have to be decided by committees. That's ... skin color isn't a purely biological fact either As Levy writes, we could divide sports competitions by weight class ...

One of the best article titles I've seen in recent memory is from this week's New Yorker. Lift and Separate by Ariel Levy is a review of two books written about the history of feminism. The article is great and brought to mind the societal upheavals of that exciting, confusing time. My own consciousness-raising wasn't ...

... judge thought he qualified for asylum because he had provided "material support" to a terrorist organization when an armed rebel group robbed him of $4 and his lunch.Ariel Levy on women who scorn feminism. I'm glad Happy's happy. Apparently, the key to revitalizing one's dating life is getting out of DC. ...

... of the music you love." CHARTattack profiles singer-songwriter Alela Diane. The top 5 U2 literary moments. At The Book Bench, author Ariel Levy offers a feminist reading list. Jezebel's readers respond with their own personal choices for the list. NPR's Monitor Mix interviews Sonic ...

... for revolution is tamed into a simple insistence on representation, then one woman is as good as another. You could have, in a sense, feminism without feminists. New Yorker: Lift and Separate by Ariel Levy, November 16, 2009 See also: Atlantic: Fighting for the Future of Feminism by Heather Horn, November 12, 2009 Amazon: Feminism Without Women by Tania ...

... more than a few feminists up in arms. Debates about female politicians, or the backlash to women's liberation, aren't new, but the New Yorker's Ariel Levy is wondering how feminism got to be so divisive. She addresses some of the book's pressing questions: What is feminism now? Has Sarah Palin broken the mold for politically ambitious ...

... 8216;elf & safety forms before too long. Political correctness gone mad, I tell you.. Onto feminism, and did you know that the ‘bra burning’ thing was actually a myth? No, me neither. Ariel Levy brings us that and other interesting stuff in a review of Gail Collins’ new book. Matt Yglesias reminds us that the internet is, in fact, ...

... private-sector workforce. The contours of mainstream feminism started to change accordingly. A politics of liberation was largely supplanted by a politics of identity." In The New Yorker, Ariel Levy contrasts Gail Collins's When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present and Leslie Sanchez's ...

... things I worried a bit about when I wrote the thing was that I hadn't given enough credit to writers (other than to Ariel Levy, perhaps) and others who were obviously not 'one-dimensional'. Partly I think this was because the book was originally supposed to be just a polemic against the mostly US-based self-help shoes-'n'-chocolate kind ...