Barbara Findlen
interviewed by Janet Daly
This week's profile is Barbara Findlen, the Executive Editor of "Ms." Magazine. I first met Barbara fifteen years ago -- she was an editor then, too, and I was a new writer for our high school newspaper in suburban Boston. She was the person who taught me newspaper layout, getting copy to fit around ad space and how to edit judiciously. She also helped make me a better field hockey goalie, and really struck me as a together woman (at age 17 no less!).
Later, I was able to watch her lead Boston-based activist organizations, and read her writings in "Ms." She is also the editor of the 1995 book "Listen Up: voices from the next feminist generation." Take us up on an invitation to eavesdrop -- you can send feedback to [email protected].
-- Janet Daly, Production Manager
photo credit: Amy Harrison
"The personal is still political."
If you always said "Huh?" when you saw pins and bumperstickers with this slogan, this might make it clearer.
"Feminism by any other name..."
Use the F-word with frequency, accuracy, and volume, and see who's
using all the ideas but denies the eight letters.
Who's afraid of the "F" word, and why?
Names are used, with some notable success, to prevent women from claiming
a feminist identity. Listen in to how the "L" word (lesbian) has been used as a divisive weapon, and how feminists can constructively turn it around.
"The Good, The Bad and the Feminist"
Read why both Good and Bad Girls end up going nowhere, and why.
Who should read "Listen Up?"
Barbara talks about who the book is for, the writers, and what might have been different had it been published ten years earlier.
You can read the Tripod Review of "Listen Up."
