Arts and Entertainment Editor Zachary Zahos '15 reviews Pixar's latest masterpiece, Brave, a triumph of animation, entertainment and profound storytelling.

There has been an ugly backlash to HBO's new hit, Girls, and Jason Goldberg '14 calls out the haters.

Brandon Ho '12 appreciated Margaret Cho's stand-up performance at Bailey Hall last Friday, and laughed a whole lot, too.

Audrey Flack comes to the Johnson Museum to discuss art, history and feminism.

The Vagina Monologues come to Bailey Hall; Sarah Angell gives her take.

Maggie Henry '14 argues that most jobs today perpetuate anti-feminist societal notions. 

Women’s biological clocks start ticking before birth, causing a decline in their ovarian reserve of eggs. According to a recent Scottish study, women lose 88 percent of their eggs by age 30, and by age 40, only three percent of their eggs remain. Should college girls be paying more attention to this declining fertility while making their life plans?

Some of Carolee Schneemann’s most famous artworks involv­­e naked bodies eating raw chickens (“Meat Joy,” 1964), a film of her and her boyfriend having sex from her cat’s vantage point (“Fuses,” 1965) and a performance where she unravels a poem stuffed up her vag (“Interior Scroll,” 1975). That is, she’s the type of exhibitionistic performance artist that your mother likely finds objectionable and that you probably find passé — though her work speaks, then and now, about the conflicting ideals that render womanhood passive and that make motherhood objectified.

Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy infamously stated that the burqa was “not welcome” in his country, triggering a contentious debate between Muslims, secularists and everyone in between, I’ve been struggling to identify what exactly is at issue. Women’s rights? Secularism? National security? French culture? Is the French parliamentary panel’s proposed ban on full-veils — the burqa and the niqab — legitimate legislation or the latest form of Islamophobia?

You know the story: Girl starts middle school as “mean girl.” Poetic justice intervenes, and after mean girl-related trauma in high school, girl swears off other girls for life. Because girl has mostly male friends, other girls deem girl a slut. Girl retaliates by deciding all girls suck, declares that she hates other women, makes the requisite “woman make me a sandwich!” jokes, and tells her mother, spitefully, that she is anti-feminist. (Girl clearly does not know what this means. Mom throws up hands in air.) Then: girl goes to college, meets cool women-folk, starts studying feminism, joins sorority. 3.5 years later, girl has more female than male buds, gets over-reactive to the same sexist jokes she used to make, and has been writing papers about vaginas, columning about breasts and even devoted her entire THESIS to ze wimyns.