Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf
Naomi R. Wolf is an American author, journalist and former political advisor to Al Gore and Bill Clinton...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
goodnight good-night good-luck
In the U.S., the '50s and '60s marked the documentary's golden age, especially at CBS, where pioneering television journalist Edward R. Murrow, immortalised in George Clooney's 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' produced such landmark investigations as the CBS Reports programme 'Hunger in America.'
risk documentary-films documentaries
Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
men average america
How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
strong smart democracy
It is never smart, even in a strong democracy, to declare some debate off limits. In a weakening democracy it is catastrophic.
firsts usual quiet
The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.
america president gone
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
thinking feminist tests
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
baby war feminist
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
kings long peaceful
Democracy is disruptive. Around the world, peaceful protesters are being demonised for this, but there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. Protesters ideally should read Gandhi and King and dedicate themselves to disciplined, long-term, non-violent disruption of business as usual - especially disruption of traffic.
sex vacation expression
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'
self-esteem air identity
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
self-esteem eye men
Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.
self-esteem body aging
At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition