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Elissa Strauss

Elissa Strauss's writing on gender and culture has appeared in the New York Times, Jezebel, and the Forward, where she is a lead blogger for the Sisterhood. Follow her on Twitter at @elissaavery.

Spike heels, sex and strollers: I’m tired of lady mags pretending that motherhood doesn’t exist

Elissa Strauss
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=782914'>ArtisticCaptures</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

The tyranny of the “bad mother”: Slacker moms are just as intimidating as perfect ones

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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-253822p1.html'>bogdan ionescu</a>, <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-187474p1.html'>Jacob Kearns</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Biblical birth control: The surprisingly contraception-friendly Old Testament

Elissa Strauss
Sheryl Sandberg, Anne-Marie Slaughter (Denise Applewhite)

I’m not ambitious, and that’s OK

Elissa Strauss
Taylor Schilling as Piper Kerman in "Orange Is The New Black" (Netflix)

“Orange Is the New Black”: Just an edgier version of “The Help”

Elissa Strauss
(Bravo/Giovanni Rufino)

The hipster racism of reality TV

Elissa Strauss

What “The Bling Ring” gets wrong about Valley girls

Elissa Strauss

Behind domestic workers’ new bill of rights

Elissa Strauss

“Sex and the City’s” friendship fairy tale

Elissa Strauss