Eleanor M. Johnson

Dec 20, 2024 | damemagazine.com | Eleanor M. Johnson

Today marks 40 years since the NY State Supreme Court’s landmark decision to criminalize marital rape. Despite yesterday’s sentencing, Gisèle Pelicot’s case in France reveals that little has changed, for it’s the courageous survivors, not the abusers, who repeatedly have to prove their humanity and the facts of the horrific crimes. This article was made possible because of the generous support of DAME members. We urgently need your help to keep publishing.

Oct 31, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Eleanor M. Johnson |Charlotte Rosen

Oh, Alien franchise. How I love you, and how bad you treat me sometimes. But never, ever so bad as this. I’m going to do something I rarely do. I’m going to review a movie I hated. It pains me to do this, but do it I must: because this film is terrible in ways that are important for the history of horror and for contemporary feminism. First, let me list the not important things about Alien: Romulus that don’t work.

Apr 22, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Eleanor M. Johnson

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Apr 22, 2024 | lithub.com | Eleanor M. Johnson

Most climate-change deniers in the United States are devout Christians. believe either that the earth is getting warmer naturally and benignly, or that isn’t getting warmer at all. They dismiss climate change science for the simple reason that God created the earth for mankind to use, and He wouldn’t destroy it, because was made for us.

Dec 13, 2023 | publicbooks.org | Eleanor M. Johnson |Carolyn Dever |Charlotte Rosen

This essay is part of a Public Books capsule by Eleanor Johnson on feminism and horror. 1973 was a banner year for American feminism. Roe v. Wade was decided in the Supreme Court in January. The Equal Rights Amendment had passed through Congress. News media decried wage disparities between men and women. Grassroots feminist activists were working to raise awareness about domestic violence—then called “wife-battery”—and to change public attitudes and policies about it.