Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Author at Public Seminar

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Re-Dressing “No More Miss America”

The construction of fashion and feminism as antagonistic has been used to undermine the movement’s goals and to obscure fashion as a liberating political tool

September 9, 2018 • by Einav Rabinovitch-Fox

Fifty years ago, over a hundred women gathered on the boardwalk of Atlantic City to protest the Miss America Pageant. The demonstration, which was organized by the feminist group New York Radical Women (NYRW), protested the exploitative and racist nature of the pageant (black women were not allowed to participate ...

Feminists have long had a fraught relationship with fashion. But the pussyhat looks set to change that.

Almost a year ago, a day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, hundreds and thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the president’s policies towards women, LGBTQ, Muslims, immigrants and other minorities. The world looked on with awe at the sea of pink that formed on the Great Lawn; in ...