FEMINISM LITE

  • The US’s first women’s museum opened in Dallas last month, but visitors are unlikely to walk away with a broad knowledge of women’s accomplishments, artistic or otherwise. “[The Women’s Museum] is an institution as notable for what it omits as what it contains, a watery survey of female accomplishment that for the most part glosses over the conditions – i.e., a couple of centuries of sexual inequality and its attendant ills – that make such an institution necessary in the first place.” Salon