
Elissa Strauss
Elissa Strauss writes about the intersection of gender and culture for TheWeek.com. She also writes regularly for Elle.com and the Jewish Daily Forward, where she is a weekly columnist.
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Thank god Amy Poehler is not very niceopinion "I am not as nice as you think I am," Poehler says in her new book Yes Please. This is important and uplifting.
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Dear Arianna Huffington: I don't want to thriveopinion I just want to live a fulfilling life
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How formula-feeding made my husband a better fatheropinion Breast is best — except for equal parenting
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Face it, ladies: We can't all be beautiful
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How the Kardashians' neighborhood became the most notorious suburb in Americaopinion Why did sleepy Calabasas become reality TV's Hollywood?
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The cult of natural childbirth has gone too faropinion It's childbirth, not performance art
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Our obsession with parental happiness is making us miserableopinion Why do today's harried parents need a happiness validation?
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Welcome to the age of ambivalent feminismopinion Self-identifying feminists now feel safe to air their doubts and contradictions — and that's a good thing
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5 reasons why you should just shred that holiday letteropinion A case against seasonal bragging
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Too many women have close-call assault stories. Here's what I learned from mine.opinion It often takes the manifestation of evil in an extreme form to shed light on the more mundane appearances of that evil in our lives
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'Having it all' has officially jumped the sharkopinion A once-thoughtful discussion is now just navel-gazing about managing abundance
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The myth of the stay-at-home dadopinion They're all over the news, but the data shows they're not statistically significant
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The absurd lie that celebrity moms love to tell usopinion Sorry, Scarlett: There's no way you lost that weight from breastfeeding alone
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The feminist battle that too many women ignoreopinion Why fair treatment for pregnant women at work should be a new rallying cry
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Why feminists should cheer the feminism backlashopinion It's time for the movement to get back to business
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Feminism has a 1 percent problemopinion When a seat at the table costs $500 a head
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Is it no longer OK to buy your daughter a doll?opinion 'Tis the season for anxious parenting
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Sorry, Esquire, lusting after 40-year-old women isn't progressopinion Allow me to womansplain
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In defense of family dinneropinion Let's not give up on home-cooked meals; let's just ditch the many factors that make them a pain
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How income inequality invaded high fashionopinion The elite turn to understatement in the age of Piketty
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Why PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi just gave the interview of the yearopinion Brutal honesty about motherhood has never been more necessary
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In defense of Gwyneth Paltrowopinion Love her or hate her, Paltrow is refreshingly honest
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That 'world's toughest job' ad is actually full of horrible lessons on motherhoodopinion Please politely decline Cardstore.com's viral invitation to a pity party
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Your daughter needs to know that mom makes less than dadopinion Don't just brush your home's inequality under the rug. Girls need to know what they're up against.
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