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Anne is reading …
The New York Times Sunday magazine tees off in Benton Harbor, Michigan, a closed-factories, blue-collar cown that’s suffered tremendously over the last few decades of declining manufacturing and industrial jobs. Today, Benton Harbor is home to an luxe green resort called Harbor Shores with a jewel of a Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course that meanders into Lake Michigan.
Written by Jonathan Mahler, author of “Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning”, with a title Now That the Factories Are Closed, It’s Tee Time in Benton Harbor, Mich you get the drift that this in-depth look at America is a deeply disturbing look at American decay of factories, jobs and civil rights. Can the haves save Benton Harbor, where the democratically-elected government has been replaced by an emergency-manager? And how many other towns and cities across America are in the same condition? Will the Supreme Court rule that state governments don’t have the power to throw out municipally-elected governments, school boards, mayors, taking over America’s towns in the process.
It may be tee time for luxury lovers in Benton Harbor, but the town itself is in deep trouble.
Feminism at Forbes
Forbes Woman asks what feminism means today and is it still relevant? Jenna Goudreau polls women’s rights changemakers from Gloria Steinem and Jane Gonda to Latoya Peterson, 28, editor of the blog Racialicious about what feminism means to them.
Recently USA Today published multiple articles, “Is feminism over the hill?” and “Feminism is evolving for a new generation,” about the complicated relationship young people have with it today.
Small government light bulbs
America’s Tea Party has saved the cheap, inefficient 100-watt incandescent light bulb from a government-enforced phaseout. Energy-efficiency is not a priority but free choice, say lawmakers who included the reversal in the government funding bill. change via Bloomberg
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Adriana Lima | Russell James | Donna Karan Spring 2012
Anne was simply livid this weekend, reading Jezebel’s attack dog story about Donna Karan’s Spring 2012 ad campaign, one that we love. Shot by Russell James, the images reflect the heart and soul of the Smart Sensuality woman for whom fashion, style, philanthropy, brains and right intentions must be as integrated a concept as possible. Smart Sensuality = smart, sexy with heart, a triad that has defined Donna Karan’s life and career.
Read the details on Fashonista, where Anne left this comment:
There are “the critics”. And there are people who take action on key global issues and who have dedicated decades of their lives trying to do the right thing with good intentions. I would like to see the Jezebel crew move from being the eternal critics to getting their beautiful female butts on airplanes — as Donna Karan does — and do something for people by actions, good intentions and NOT SEPARATING these issues from the public consciousness, which is the intent of Donna’s ad.
Jezebel performs a service, but they also lay in wait to drive page views by stirring the politically-correct, finding-fault pot week by week. America is pc gone madly insane. Donna Karan can hold her head high — not only on Haiti and this ad campaign— but on a lifetime of dedicated efforts on behalf of people in need. She has one of the most humanitarian hearts and consciousness in the fashion industry.
To see Donna Karan trashed on this topic is nauseating, and I’d like to know what the Jezebel crew actually DOES to help those suffering terribly in the world of the haves and the have nots. Talk is cheap. Let’s see some action from Jezebel beyond dividing us. And the photos are not creepy. They were shot by Russell James who also has a track record of outstanding service advocating for the indigenous people of Australia. Russell James doesn’t do ‘creepy’ photography. His show is back in NYC I believe. Again, we have the critics and those who take action, like Russell James.
Anne of Carversville Editorials
Julia Frauche | Yelena Yemchuk | Dazed & Confused Jan 2012 | ‘Super Natural’
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Marcella Freesz | Jacques Dequeker | Maric Claire Brazil November 2011 | ‘Sexy’
Lys Inger | Signe Vilstrup | Vanity Fair Italia No.50 21st December 2011 | Sono Esagerata
Anastasya & Ela | Boris Ovini | On the Field #1
Lenka Hanakova | Norbert Kniat | 1st Magazine November 2011
Lee Young Jin | Zo Sun Hi | W Korea November 2011 | ‘Heiress’
Rosie Tupper | Yu Tsai | Charles David Spring 2012
Woman | Kirsten Dunst | Mario Sorrenti | AnOther Magazine #11 Fall/Winter 2006
Kelly Rhianna | Peter Coulson | The Creatives ‘Geisha’
Josipa, Kirstin Varley and Kersti | John Wright | Creatives: The Three Graces
Rebbeca Romijn | Mark Liddell | Vanity Fair December 2011 | Codice Rebecca
Christy Turlington | Guy Aroch | L’Officiel Nl No.30 2011 | ‘Christy Rolmodel’
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Marc Jacobs + | Annie Leibovitz | Vogue US January 2012 | ‘A Man for All Seasons’
Hailey Clauson | Richard Bush | Vogue Russia January 2012
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Meghan Collison | Ben Toms | Vogue Russia January 2012
Josefien Rodermans | Naomi Yang | Vogue Taiwan December 2012 | ‘A Cool Girl’
Emma Maclaren | Rafael Stahelin | L’Officiel nl no.30 2011 | Ice Ice Baby
Madelene de la Motte | Magnus Magnusson | Contributor #4
Jessica Miller | Philippe Salomon | Vogue Mexico December 2011 | ‘Con Mirada de Musa’
Zhu Lin, Jess Hull, Jess Houghton + | Rafael Stahelin | L’officiel nl no.30 | Pick-‘n-Mix
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Jennifer Lewis on Gender Power | Taryn Andreatta on Natural Submission of Women | Anne on '60s Feminist History
Goth Goes Solar
Fashion with no meaning is just another form of political correctness. Our clothes, our images, our books all make significant statement about who we are as people — unless one is a totally mindless fashionista.
The fact that the Akiss Paraskevopoulos images are light and not dark, holds meaning of Phoenix Rising for me. I see the Smart Sensuality woman — and the men who embrace her — in these images. She is the 21st century heroine who MUST come out of the shadows and take a position on the issues of our times, before it is too late.
Not just Pope Benedict says you have no right to birth control; the voters of Mississippi are about to give the state full control of women’s bodies, including laws that will outlaw birth control.
The politically-correct expression of the Gothic spirit that says ‘whatever’ must draw some lines in the sand. Pick up your damn swords and fight before you have no rights left. I made this choice a few years ago, writing ‘Controlling Women’s Bodies Is a Fght to the Finish’ and ‘Drawing a Line in Lubna’s Sand, Saying ‘No More’ to the Growing, Global Erosion of Women’s Rights in the Name of Any Man’s Religion’.
I did not become an ardent feminist (that bad girl so many women love to hate) to see Mississippi’s social conservatives led by Mike Huckabee rule America.
‘They’ are trying to take away your right to birth control, my dears. Now it’s your turn to take a stand. This is the Alamo for American women, for our daughters and granddaughters. Support Mississippians for Healthy Families. I am. Anne
Jennifer Lewis On Gender
OSU’s Jennifer Lewis On Gender Balance, Submission & Women’s Power AOC Sensual Rebel
Jennifer Lewis of Columbus, Ohio is an Anne of Carversville guest contributor, one of several women who will share her thoughts on Taryn Andreatta’s editorial ‘The Offering’. Jennifer is pursuing a combined masters/doctorate degree in social work at Ohio State University.
I am so completely into the notion that men are naturally attracted to certain aspects of a woman. And it is true, our voices, scent and curvature draw most men in. It’s as natural as the sun rising and falling. They need stimulation to their senses. They want to see, hear, smell (and yes taste) a feminine woman. Now let me be clear, I am not a Barbie…
Taryn Andreatta’s ‘The Offering’
Anne: How do you think a feminist would respond to these images? What is our perspective when looking at these images?
Taryn: Feminists operate on a level that condemns the objectification of the female body. “The Offering” is an attempt to address that issue and prove that women have intellect, sentiment, depth, fragility, and femininity beyond this contemporary notion of women being perceived as objects or robots for display. It is placing emphasis on the reality that women are a large part of mother nature forming a complex web of generational longevity spanning the continuum of life and humanity.
Anne on Feminist Truths
I can fight Pope Benedict and Michele Bachmann, but fighting Taryn tears me to pieces. Her version of second wave feminism causes me much pain at a time when we are trying to mobilize women and men of every age against the personhood amendment which will not only end all abortion rights in America, but also birth control, stem cell research and the success of in vitro fertilization. The first vote in this dramatic turn of events for American women comes in Mississippi in about 10 days.
The ism that the truth will set us free has never applied to American feminism, due to the deeply religious nature of our culture, the primacy of testosterone-ridden traditionalism in our heritage, and the centuries-old psychological beast of generations on every continent feeling the need to discredit each other as part of their own liberation.
Molly Jong-Fast’s summer pronouncement that women worldwide have all the rights they need, and her humiliation of her mother writer Erica Jong’s feminist values as being the provenance of luxury-living, educated (white) women are the best current example of younger women needing to establish their own self identity by metaphorically slaying their mothers.
In the case of American feminism, daughters are slaying the ideals of the women who bore them at the expense — not only of themselves — but their own daughters and future generations of American women. It is our daughters who are handing the social conservatives all women on a silver platter, and I fail to see the power of those actions.
Feminism and the Question of Objectification
A bit overwhelmed by Taryn’s philosophy of the natural order between the sexes, I’ve returned to my own feminist texts and discussions about second wave feminist perspectives. A good place for young women to learn what we really said is the Stanford (University) Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The section Feminist Perspectives on Objectification addresses Taryn’s assertions about feminism directly, providing an excellent review of the totality of feminist thought and not the much-quoted words and now sacrosanct truths about feminism uttered by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon.