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A Clinton County woman put her baking skills to the test at the Pennsylvania Farm Show and took home a first-place prize.

Editor’s Note: This article is a review and includes subjective thoughts, opinions and critiques. With the plethora of nightmares plaguing our society — tax cuts for the rich, the exuberant wealth of ...

Ms. Bechdel is a cartoonist and a Professor in the Practice at Yale University Alison Bechdel is a cartoonist and a Professor in the Practice at Yale University. The Times is committed to publishing a ...

Detail of Alison Bechdel’s seminal “The Rule,” which inspired the rating system. (© Alison Bechdel) (via Flickr) Four Swedish film organizations are banding together to fight sexism by applying a ...

In 1985, Alison Bechdel introduced the world to a simple test used to measure the representation of women in fiction, now commonly known as the Bechdel Test. In order to pass the Bechdel Test, a piece ...

Have you ever read a book and thought, "Women's bodies don't really work like that" or "I've never seen a woman actually do anything like this"? Well, you wouldn't be alone. For most of history, ...

You know about the Bechdel test, right? It's the famous and very simple test that is used today to assess the gender bias of films, TV series and books. It's actually very simple - to pass this test, ...

The Bechdel Cast is a podcast about the representation of women in movies. Each week, hosts Jamie Loftus and Caitlin Durante plus a special guest examine a different movie through an intersectional ...

The latest book from Vermont cartoonist Alison Bechdel is a funny reflection on her life in late middle age. “Spent: A Comic Novel” lies somewhere between fiction, memoir and a commentary on ...

Alison Bechdel's "Spent" arrives with little fanfare but considerable weight. Not because it demands to be called a masterpiece, but because it doesn't. It steps lightly, tentatively, into questions ...

Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, 272 pages. $32. Credit: Courtesy The Bolton cartoonist’s ...