Jezebel: Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf's Vagina Will Tell All This Year

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:20:00 EST

One of the things to look forward to in 2012? The release of Naomi Wolf's Vagina: A Biography. Hopefully we'll learn all about Vagina's childhood, where she went to school, the key to her success, and how she met Penis. More »

Men Are More To Madonna Than Just 'Sexual Appendages'

Jenna Sauers — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:40:00 EST

In possibly the most entertaining matching of reporter and subject perpetrated by a ladymag this year, Harper's Bazaar got Naomi Wolf to interview Madonna for its latest issue. What did they talk about? Body hair, sex, high school — and the movie Ms. Ciccone is promoting. Wolf also sneaked a peek at one of Madonna's bathrooms: "I would swear," writes Wolf, it had "a wall covering made of teal duck feathers." More »

Naomi Wolf Arrested At Occupy Wall Street Protest

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:30:00 EDT

A familiar face was among the dozen or so people arrested last night at Occupy Wall Street. Naomi Wolf, who writes for the Huffington Post, was attending an event where New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was presented with the site's "Game Changer of the Year Award." About 50 protesters showed up and when Wolf heard police telling them they needed a permit to use a megaphone, she intervened to say that the permit requirement wasn't true. Wolf was warned several times that she'd be arrested for demonstrating without a permit, and when she didn't back down she was cuffed. More »

Today In Assange: Olbermann Returns, Naomi Wolf Defends Herself

Irin Carmon — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:24:52 EST

If you thought talking about Julian Assange was terrible last week, welcome to today, when Keith Olbermann re-emerges to drastically lower the standards of debate, and Naomi Wolf says siding with Assange's accusers is "not respecting women." More »

Eating Disorders Aren't Just About Beauty

Carrie Arnold — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:11:00 EDT

Writer Naomi Wolf was the keynote speaker at the National Eating Disorders Association conference this year. She's super-articulate, very intelligent, and she knows her stuff. I very much respect her and what she has to say. However... More »

It's Not Just Men Who Are Objectifying Women

Kelly Harris — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:30:00 EDT

Earlier this month, Hugh Hefner was asked whether he objectifies women. His answer says a lot about our culture's confused attitude to female beauty. More »

—Naomi Wolf

Irin Carmon — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:40:00 EDT

the writer/activist on a piece she did for More addressing the notion that feminism made women unhappy, at a lunch yesterday. [Twitter, WSJ, More] More »

Prominent Feminist Explains Why Angelina Jolie Is Best Thing, Ever

Sadie Stein — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Angelina Jolie was named Forbes' "most powerful celeb in the world" last week. Naomi Wolf, in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar (?) thinks it's cuz Brangie "brings together almost every aspect of female empowerment and liberation." Or something like that. More »

Comic Confrontations: Judge Judy Vs. Feminists, Part 2

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:20:00 EDT

Feminists love bickering about feminism. And as more women join the conversation, it gets nastier…and better! But it's time Judge Judy kept some order. (Continued from Part 1.) More »

NYT Writer Finds Out Jerks Still Exist In Academia

Anna North — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:40:00 EST

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A distinguished, sixtyish writer arrives to address a graduate program. He praises another university for its "hot students" and disses his wife ("sleep with one student and wake up 17 years later married to her"). He says a female prof "eats like a man," and he seems to like the word "beaver." Sounds like a tale from the 1970s, right? Or at least the early 80s, when Naomi Wolf (at left) experienced sexual harassment at the roving hands of Harold Bloom? J.D. Nordell, writing in last week's Times, thinks so too, except it happened to her this year. Her experience with the Visiting Douchebag reminded her how lucky she is that his crap is no longer widely tolerated — and how unfortunate we all are that it still sometimes exists. More »

Who's To Blame For Little-Girl Voices?

Anna Holmes — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:12:03 EDT

They say women pick clothes to impress women, but do they pick voices to impress men? That's the question we were left with after listening to reporter Ashley Milne-Tyte's segment on NPR's 'Marketplace' about the disturbing — and apparently growing — trend of adult women who sound like little girls. Like Monica Goodling, the 33-year-old, right-wing Justice Department official with a suspicious law degree, bad ethics and the voice of a twelve-year-old. Seems that we weren't the only ones cringing during Goodling's Legally Blonde-like testimony before Congress last month: In fact, Milne-Tyte started off her Marketplace segment with an audio snippet of Goodling's remarks before the mostly-male House Justice Committee, then spoke to business and communication experts about this sort of vocal dumbing-down among female professionals. The theory behind it is that some women are either so scared of their own professional shadows or so afraid of being labeled feminists that they "overcorrect" by speaking and/or acting like young girls. Take Emily Longrio, a female professional who says she took voice training at the request of her boss. And what did Longrio learn? The power of "um"!

Making declarative statements is kind of intimidating. It's a lot easier to say "Um, I'd like to talk about our annual report today," than "I'd like to talk about our annual report today.