Juliet Williams, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/julietwilliams/ More Than A Magazine, A Movement Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:02:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://msmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-ms-logo-32x32.jpg Juliet Williams, Author at Ms. Magazine https://msmagazine.com/author/julietwilliams/ 32 32 In the Ms. Archive: Does Feminism Have a Problem With Femininity? https://msmagazine.com/2025/08/21/ms-magazine-achive-feminism-femininity-women-masculinity/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:30:11 +0000 https://msmagazine.com/?p=384879 Femininity has long been the elephant in the room of feminism.

On the one hand, femininity doesn’t just name what it means, culturally, to be a woman—femininity lies at the heart of many women’s own sense of self. And yet, feminists identify femininity as a source of oppression, a straight-jacket imposed on women to keep us in our place.

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]]> Diary of a Chambermaid? https://msmagazine.com/2011/05/18/diary-of-a-chambermaid/ https://msmagazine.com/2011/05/18/diary-of-a-chambermaid/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 18:57:36 +0000 http://testdb.msmagazine.com/blog/?p=44525 As everyone now knows, International Monetary Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested on Saturday in dramatic fashion, hauled out of his first-class seat on an Air France plane at New York’s JFK Airport just as it was preparing for take off to Paris. Shortly after the arrest, NYPD spokesman Paul J. Brown explained that […]

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