Beware the Believers Blog, May 27, 2012 While many of us who fought ferociously for women’s rights in the 60s were busy climbing career ladders, raising our children, pampering our grandchildren the religious zealots on the right were equally busy desperately trying to find ways to roll back the gains that were made! The religious […]
May 14, 2012
First Post, May 14, 2012 by Nivedita Menon There is a complicated relationship between abortion as such and the selective abortion of female foetuses. This dilemma is one with which the women’s movement in India has been grappling since the late 1980s. In my discussion of this dilemma, I would like to move away completely […]
May 11, 2012
Washington Post, May 11, 2012 by Rebecca Traister When Phyllis Schlafly is forced to concede that not all feminists are ugly, it’s clear that something has gone awry on the right. Sure enough, in April, Schlafly, a conservative crusader who has been peddling stereotypes of women’s activists as physically and socially unappealing for decades, thought […]
April 24, 2012
Huffington Post, April 24, 2012 by Barbara Hannah Grufferman Believing in the full social, political, and economic quality of women, which is what the dictionary says “feminism” means, is enough to make a revolution in itself. – Gloria Steinem Some people think about joining revolutions. Others start them. And American women, it seems, are ready […]
April 19, 2012
New York Times, April 19, 2012 by Eve M. Kahn Anecdotes keep emerging about how American female artists would battle misogyny, skeptical relatives and heavy skirts to paint somewhere remote and possibly dangerous. A dozen recent and forthcoming publications and exhibitions cover such art heroines of a century and more ago. National Academy of Design, […]
April 17, 2012
CNN, April 17, 2012, Sandra Fluke Editor’s note: Sandra Fluke is a third-year law student at Georgetown University Law Center and has served as president of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice. She gained national attention when she testified in February before a congressional committee on behalf of greater access to contraceptive coverage. (CNN) — […]
March 31, 2012
Seattle PI, March 31, 2012 by Erin Solaro A conservative (more or less) correspondent wrote to me of his dismay and despair about the freak show that is the Republican Party’s contenders for president. Even though I’m not sure birth control is a right, what do we get out of calling Sandra Fluke a slut […]
March 25, 2012
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March 15, 2012
Examiner.com, March 15, 2012 by Jacquie Piasta Rallies and protest marches will take place across the United States and territories on April 28th. This movement, Unite Against the War on Women, has been gaining momentum across the nation. Events are scheduled at state capitols and major cities in all fifty states, Washington, D.C., American territories, […]
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