Latest Fem/Gender
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Coffey: The Limits of Excellence
A feminism based on lionizing hyper-successful women obscures the unjust structures that need to be dismantled
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Biehl: Review: A Road Unforeseen — Women Fight the Islamic State
“Any movement for real transformation must make the demands of women central,” argues Meredith Tax in her book on the Kurdish women’s struggle.
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Kann: How A Right-Wing Media Myth About Planned Parenthood Could Hurt Florida’s Fight Against Zika
Anti-choice lawmakers instead invoked a right-wing media myth to attack Planned Parenthood and block its efforts to help combat a potential outbreak
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Chen: Women Day Laborers Are Tired of Waiting for Work, and for Justice
In Brooklyn, a new study shows that women face an underground labor market fraught with hidden risks
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Street: Political Correctness: Handle with Care
Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to Left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice
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Fletcher: Changing the Paradigm: Women, National Liberation & Revolution in the 21st Century
A review of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax
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Bever: ‘You took away my worth’: A sexual assault victim’s powerful message to her Stanford attacker
She’s known in local newspapers as 23-year-old “Emily Doe” —...
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Sturgis: A win for women’s rights in landmark Texas abortion case
Rank of the South among regions where women face some of the most severe restrictions on abortion: 1
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Levinson: Veterans lead fight against sexual assault in the military
What support can be provided to survivors and how can change in the military be pushed forward?
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Solomon: I Assumed It Was Racism—It Was Patriarchy
Why are some women more invisible than others? To grow new anti-patriarchal movements like Black Lives Matter, we need to start opening our eyes
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Braatz: The Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment
To understand the influence of the culture of punishment, imagine a culture obsessed with rehabilitation instead
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In a new article for Rolling Stone, journalist Soraya Chemaly...
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Buhle: This Feminist is #Still Sanders
A single woman in higher office pales before the vision of a social democracy that brings a higher standard of life to so many
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Cole: Welcome to the Party, America! 11 Muslim women who have been PM or President
Hillary Clinton gave a victory speech Tuesday night positioning herself...
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LaFrance: When Will the Internet Be Safe for Women?
The fight to make law enforcement take online threats seriously
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Atencio: Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body
Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty
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Zirin: Meet Two Women Tackling Misogyny in Sports Journalism
Women don’t want white knights to ride and and defend us. We just want a voice to defend ourselves
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Lloyd: Women and the War on Drugs
The War on Drugs condones a form of macho violence
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Aurora: Biting lions: remembering the Grunwick strike 40 years on
The legacy and lessons for today
ZMag Fem/Gender
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Finley: Changing the Conversation About the “Woman Card”
The “woman card.” It’s so much nonsense. Donald Trump is merely the latest to accuse a woman of playing identity politics because she, well, actually discussed the fact that the U.S. still has much to improve in terms of gender equality.
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: Argentine Women Call Out Machismo
The term “femicidio,” which encompasses the murder of women by domestic violence, in honor killings and in other categories of hate crime, has now entered our everyday language in Argentina. “The cause is our country’s macho culture,”
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LaTour: Feminism Unfinished; What Women Want
Two terrific books have arrived at the same time and serve as complementary entry points to a similar topic. Feminism Unfinished...
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Williams: Capitalism, Ecology, and the Official Invisibility of Women
Capitalist social relations continue to be damaging to women
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Cole: The Missing Story from the Middle East
The "Arab Spring" has received great attention in the U.S....
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Contributors: Net Briefs – April 2011
"Not Now" [email protected] emailed an article by...
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In Jo Sol's film Fake Orgasm, the protagonist Lazlo...
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Berkowitz: The Criminal Justice System’s Dirty Secret
In June 2005, Marilyn Shirley told the National Prison Rape...
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News: Resisting Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex
Victoria Law is a long-time prison activist and author of...
Video Fem./Gender
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Sarkeesian: Feminist Frequency – XOXO Festival
Talk at XOXO, an arts and technology festival in Portland, Oregon celebrating independent artists using the Internet to make a living doing what they love
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Solnit: The Santa Barbara Massacre & Viral Response to Misogynist Violence
"Violence doesn’t have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender"
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Kirollos: Fighting Sexual Assault in Egypt
Interview with one of the founding members of Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, a group that patrols the streets during protests and fights off men as they attempt to encircle and assault women
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Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the...
Audio Fem./Gender
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In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
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Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth
Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
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Folbre: The Socialist Feminist Imaginary
NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of...
Fem/Gender Books
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: Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory
About the Book Palestinian Women is the first book to...
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Abramovitz: Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
This critical historical analysis of U.S. social welfare policy argues...
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As its title suggests, Sheila Rowbotham’s A Century of Women:...
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Ehrenreich: For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert...
Fem/Gender Blogs
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Dominick: Down with (‘Occupy’) Materialism, Up with Diversity and Holism
Cross posted from Future Economy Blog. It’s barely secret that...
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Greeman: Violent Crackdown in Morocco Fails to Halt Movement
After posting this optimistic report, we received disturbing news of...
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Dominick: NY Times’s Sympathy for the Devils
I've spent my entire adult life writing media analysis, so...
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: Wisewords Bookclub: March 2011 – EVERY WEDNESDAY in MARCH.
On Wednesday 9 March Carol Dyhouse discusses her book "Glamour:...
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Black: Beyond Parts Per Million
Here is a great publication that I helped to put...
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Forte: Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation by the Taleban?
Is TIME’s Afghan “cover girl” really a victim of mutilation...
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Black: G20 fightback campaigning in London, Ontario, Canada
Since the G20 Summit in Toronto, activists here in...
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Black: Inter-gender and inter-sex solidarity ?
Three photos from the local university campus — with written...
