March 27, 2013
Girl power—raising feminist daughters
A mother of three young daughters, Kirsten Penner Krymusa, writing for Geez magazine, says, “I never imagined being both a feminist and a mom would be difficult. I knew I’d raise my girls to be strong and creative. . . . How hard could it be?” Much harder than she ever expected, she says. Why? Because she finds herself “doing battle with an ugly and monstrous girl culture.” Read about what she means. The concerns she voiced reminded me of a humorous song folk-singers Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer recorded in the mid-1990s called “Daughters of Feminists.”
