Christine Cupaiuolo, the founder of PopPolitics, is planning on joining the blog in the next couple of days (although she has been working long and hard behind the scenes on the technical stuff of bringing the site back).

I thought it was worth mentioning right now, though, the writing she has been doing this week as her alter ego: the author of ms.musings, a daily weblog on women, media and culture, which is part of Ms. Magazine online.

In recent entries she has been providing a unique dissection of the gender relations at the Republican National Convention. In an era where the most assertive female presence in the media are the token conservative talking heads, Christine and all the editors and writers at Ms. are some the few remaining voices that speak uncompromisingly about a feminist politics that can transform women’s lives.

Is that a shameless plug? Maybe, but I’ll let Christine’s insights speak for themselves. First and foremost, check our “Muscles, Myth and Masculinity,” an analysis of what the precisely-crafted image of actor/governor Arnold Schwarzenegger offers Republicans. Also, see her entry on the president’s “manhood.”

She also looks at the construction of Laura Bush, the role of first ladies in American politics, the Republicans’ political exploitation of the struggle of women in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the performance of the Bush twins.

Enjoy.