Gender politics, Women in Media
Huffington Post | Today’s Princesses and Witches Are Taking Bitchy Back
“…it’s true; jealous stepsisters, evil stepmothers, shrews, she-devils, witches and other bitches are super fun to watch. But I’m glad those sorry-ass fables with binary options are on the wane.”
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A Q&A with Tracy Ullman for More Magazine
The San Francisco Chronicle| ‘Underbelly’ of being a perfect mom / New sitcom shows women rebelling against, and obsessing about, an impossible ideal
In the wake of the phenomenal success of “Desperate Housewives,” network executives are learning that women, as former Rep. Pat Schroeder once put it, have a brain and a uterus, and can use both.
San Francisco Datebook | New Cinderella trades in her glass slipper for a girl power tiara
The modern princess requires spunk and pluck. She’s still full of feminine grace, modesty and beauty in spades, but her sugary composition is spiced with a smidge of spirit.