Rebecca Traister (page 18)

Rebecca Traister is a senior writer at Salon.com, where she has covered women in politics, media and entertainment since October of 2003. Prior to that, she was a reporter at the New York Observer, where she wrote about the film business. Traister has also written for Elle, the Nation, Vogue, Glamour, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Nerve, and elsewhere. Her book about women and the 2008 elections, “Big Girls Don’t Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women,” will be published in September by Free Press.”

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Rebecca Traister (page 18)

Money troubles

Good night and good frock?

Warsaw contention

Jessica Alba vs. Playboy

God to Margaret: Always with wings!

Pornographic persuasion

Octavia Butler dies

What else we’re reading

Holy Mary, mother of women’s studies?

Gray ladies

Choice fashionism!

Getting over happiness

Topless bodies found in brainless magazine

Slippery slope

An unmarried woman

The Daily Female

Are female boomers getting any, or not?

Pregnancy and antidepressants

Friedan’s farewell

Feminism 101

Losing our leaders

A Broadsheet correction

Rated G for guys

Fashion faux pas