Jill Filipovic

Jill Filipovic
Born c. 1983 (age 32–33)[1]
United States
Nationality American
Alma mater New York University Law (2008)[2]
Occupation Attorney, writer
Known for Blogging at Cosmopolitan, The Huffington Post, Feministe
Website www.jillfilipovic.com

Jill Filipovic (born c. 1983}[1] is a New York attorney and feminist author. She was hired by Cosmopolitan to write for the cosmopolitan.com blog in April, 2014.[3] Prior to that she was a columnist for The Guardian,[4] and blogger for The Huffington Post,[5] and, since 2005, Feministe, one of the largest feminist blogs.[6][7][8] She has written articles for the New York Times,[9] Washington Post,[10] and Time. [11]

Opinions

Men's rights groups

Filipovic has been an outspoken critic of A Voice for Men.[12] Michelle Goldberg, writing in The Washington Post, said she had been "singled out by [men's rights groups]" for her criticism.[13] She was also cited in Hate Crimes in Cyberspace as a victim of hate crime for her feminism.[14] According to Kerryn Goldsworthy, she has been Googlebombed by her detractors. [15]

TSA and civil liberties

A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screener was fired after Filipovic used her blog to describe an incident in which a handwritten comment was left in her luggage. She later wrote "I would much prefer a look at why 'security' has been used to justify so many intrusions into our civil liberties". [16]

Beauty pageants

Filipovic has been noted for her writing about beauty pageants, saying "the norms that these contests promote are unfortunately not ... obsolete ... we pay lip service to women's rights, but focus more on how good women look in a bathing suit".[17]

Name change

Filipovic's opposition to name change for women who marry (published in The Guardian) was cited as recommended reading on the social construction of gender in Critical Encounters in Secondary English: Teaching Literacy Theory to Adolescents.[18]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Filipovic 2013.
  2. ↑ Annual conference: speakers, NYU Law Center for Reproductive Conference, 2014
  3. ↑ Nicole Levy (April 25, 2014), Cosmopolitan.com hires Jill Filipovic, burnishes feminist cred, Capital New York
  4. ↑ "On Gender and Other Agendas", The Guardian, retrieved 2015-07-20
  5. ↑ Filipovic index, The Huffington Post
  6. ↑ Twitter, Feminism and Race: A Roundtable, NPR, August 26, 2013
  7. ↑ "About Jill", Feministe (blog), retrieved 2015-07-20
  8. ↑ Chittal, p. 356.
  9. ↑ Filipovic, Jill (2015-09-10). "The Pope’s Unforgiving Message of Forgiveness on Abortion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  10. ↑ Filipovic, Jill (2015-06-12). "How a new generation of activists is trying to make abortion normal". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  11. ↑ Filipovic, Jill. "Sex and the Single Boomer in Fear of Dying". TIME.com. Retrieved 2015-12-21.
  12. ↑ Anna Merlan (October 24, 2014), "Men's Rights Idiots Impersonating Domestic Violence Prevention Group", Jezebel
  13. ↑ Michelle Goldberg (February 20, 2015), "Feminist writers are so besieged by online abuse that some have begun to retire", The Washington Post
  14. ↑ Citron 2014, pp. 111–112.
  15. ↑ Kerryn Goldsworthy (March 27, 2007), "Jill Filipovic and the Googlebomb", Pavlov's Cat (blog)
  16. ↑ TSA fires Newark Airport screener for personal note in luggage, Reuters, October 28, 2011
  17. ↑ Day 2015, p. 197.
  18. ↑ Appleman 2014, p. 85.
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