Naomi Wolf played a leading role in so-called “third-wave” feminism and as an advocate of “power feminism,” which holds that women must assert themselves politically in order to achieve their goals. She advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Her books include The Beauty Myth, The End of America and, most recently, Vagina: A Biography.
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Naomi Wolf
Commentaries by Naomi Wolf
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A Wiser America
NEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen. Twelve years after the atta…
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America’s Zombie Prison
NEW YORK – Why add to something that is not supposed to exist?The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for …
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Sheryl Sandberg’s Good Fight
NEW YORK – Is it always offensive to advise women to change something about themselves in order to ensure that they can achieve their goals?…
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America the Unequal
PARK CITY, UTAH – The last documentary film that used dry charts and statistics to make an abstract argument about a global issue and noneth…
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Ending India’s Rape Culture
NEW YORK – The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days after having been raped for more than an h…
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A Death in Galway
NEW YORK – The case of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist from India who had moved, with her husband, to Ireland, continues to rever…
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Kill and Let Die
NEW YORK – By a strange but fitting coincidence, US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, held their final deba…
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The Vagina Chronicles
NEW YORK – Has there really been a sexual revolution? One of the themes that I explore in my new book, Vagina: A New Biography, is that…
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Sweden’s Other Rape Suspects
NEW YORK – It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful…
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Arming the Asylum
NEW YORK – The horror has become almost routine. This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused sh…
A Wiser America
Hemant K Chitale: Yet, the closure of a city was an "over-reaction". Contrast this incident with those of school shootings or the shooting at the New Orleans Mother's Day Parade.
A Wiser America
Earl Staelin: It's probably too early to conclude there was or was not a conspiracy in this case. The media, as usual, for the most part have been disseminating a single narrow line about the Boston Marathon bombi…