The XX Factor : personal essays, divorce

The Mommy Wars, Repurposed?

Dahlia Lithwick — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:57:00 GMT

Forgive me for wondering whether the whole “women-who-crave-divorce-in-print” boomlet we’re contemplating here is yet another manifestation of the “mommy wars” phenomenon. That is the media-created dustup wherein approximately 18 women (all of them upper-middle-class...(read more)

Better Than the Train Tracks

Hanna Rosin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:05:00 GMT

Well, I suppose that through a certain feminist lens everything looks like progress (From Anna Karenina to Ellen Tien). There was a time when any literary heroine who attempted some escape from the confines of a dull, loveless marriage wound up dead or...(read more)

Clubbing the Plankton

Emily Bazelon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:09:00 GMT

Ann and Meghan , when I tried to come up with male journalists and essayists who run down their wives last night, Norman Mailer kept popping into my head. Wrong era (and maybe wrong kind of misogyny). The men's companion volume to The Bitch in the House...(read more)

Divorce, Anyone?

Hanna Rosin — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:35:00 GMT

I want to take advantage of what Maureen Dowd dubs the celebrity divorce moment (Christie Brinkley, Madonna) to talk about how this great American pastime figures for the rest of us. When David and I did the Slate V feature in which we spent a day no...(read more)