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Women don't just hold up half the sky. They constitute half of all that is under the sun and moon. And their subordination, in any manner at all, is, of course, completely unacceptable to all people, male or female, who are serious about justice and equity.
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Latest Fem/Gender
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Grossman: Women Marchers and Absentees
How good it was to see so many young people on the move, with an amazing variety of placards, signs, flags and posters, mostly hand-made, with countless clever slogans, aggressive against patriarchy
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Contributors: Massive marches in Spain display the strength of the feminist movement
Demonstrations on International Women’s Day, brought out an estimated 350,000 protestors in Madrid and 200,000 in Barcelona
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de Almeida Teles: Brazilian feminists resist ‘attack on our fundamental rights’
‘In the war against democratic progress, our very bodies are the territory being fought over’
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Dickson: International Women’s Day Has Its Roots in Socialist Feminism
The fact that International Women’s Day has gotten so much traction as a marketing tactic is particularly ironic, given that it basically runs counter to the origins of the holiday, which has its roots in the anticapitalist, U.S. socialist movement
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Busk: Chile’s feminist movement is here to stay
Over the course of 2018, Chilean feminists established their movement through student resistance and the transnational fight for legal abortion
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Vigo: The Crisis of Online Feminism Today
There are serious problems within feminism online activist circles that have revealed serious issues of elitist narratives that seeks to dispossess others from having a seat at the table
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Aljazeera: Trump to bar abortion referrals by family planning clinics
Reproductive rights groups decry Trump's latest announcement, saying it further restricts women's rights
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Busk: Chile’s feminists inspire a new era of social struggle
Feminism has a long history in Chile, but 2018 gave rise to a movement that was far more powerful than anyone could have expected
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Finley: 2019: The Year to Examine Toxic Masculinity
“Traditional” masculinity, or what sociologists have called hegemonic masculinity, which emphasizes stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression, is bad for both men and women
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Monbiot: The fear that lies behind aggressive masculinity
Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up
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Paarlberg-Kvam: For Women, A Contradictory Peace in Colombia
So long as Colombia’s peace accords fail to contend with the liberal economic order or challenge extractivism and militarism in the country, they will fall short of achieving true gender justice
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Prashad: 5.5 Million Women Build Their Wall
On Jan. 1, 5.5 million women in the Indian state of Kerala (population 35 million) built a 386-mile wall with their bodies
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Raina: Women Walking Into Sabarimala First of 2019’s Watershed Moments
The mega-mass event will go down in India’s contemporary history as a blow on the behalf of reason and constitutional rights and crowns a year of concerted mass determination to obtain gender justice in the cultural-religious domain
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Finley: Congress Must Reauthorize VAWA
Sadly, this isn’t the first time that Republicans have attempted to block VAWA, literally using women’s lives as a bartering tool
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La Duke: Call for Indigenous-Led “Green New Deal”
Interview on the indigenous-led fight against destructive oil pipelines and the revolutionary potential of the Green New Deal
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Antilla: Mandatory Arbitration for Sexual Harassment Claims
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently sent a memo to employees saying arbitration would now be “optional” for individual claims of sexual harassment and sexual assault. Facebook announced a similar policy the next day
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AFP: Trump tries but fails to block UN #MeToo Resolution
The United States failed on Monday to water down a UN resolution on combatting sexual harassment and violence against women despite backing from Russia, China, India, several Muslim countries and the Vatican
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Black Smith: #Hashtag Me TOO: Reflections on Women’s Solidarity
5 percent voted to elect the over 70, sexually aggressive, “pussy-grabbing” unproven and under-qualified man to the most powerful political office in the country.
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There’s enough wealth in this country to allow the rich to be rich and still eradicate most barriers to a genuine women’s liberation, which starts with economic justice in the workplace
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Slaughter: Low-Wage Harassment
Sexual harassment doesn’t happen just to glamorous women in glamorous industries
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Okun: Men And Sexual Assault in the Age of Trump
Sexual assault is not a women’s issue; it’s a community issue, and men, ready or not, we have to break our silence
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do we want a feminism for the 99 percent? Or a feminism of the 99 percent? And how can we know Clearly what we need now is a very big and powerful women’s movement, a united front of women, with room for different interests and organizations and politics.
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Finley: A Feminist Perspective on Trumpcare
Although the American Health Care Act (AHCA) of 2017 is rife with problems, one of the most disturbing is its shocking gender bias.
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Windham: Working Class Feminism
Young women are leading the most exciting and dynamic aspects of the 21st-century progressive movement, and they’ve been at this for a while now
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imagine when women in such a society decide that they are going to change this. Even some victims will oppose them—there is serious internalization of sexism as there is with racism.
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Menos Collective: The International Women’s Strike
The October 19 strike was the first women’s strike in the history of Argentina and Latin America. A strike was called for one hour, in all possible spaces: workplaces, educational spaces, domestic spaces, neighborhood ones, etc. The following mobilization was truly enormous: more than 250,000 people in Buenos Aires and more marches all over the country
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The Hill reports that the Trump budget may well slash Federal funding for the 25 programs that grew out of the Violence against Women Act.
Video Fem./Gender
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On 8 March 2018 women across the world are going on strike. This is a call to action for women in the UK to join the strike. We will refuse to work. We will be on the streets. We will shut things down and disrupt business as usual
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Graham: Women March in Defiance
In Baltimore and around the world the second anniversary of the Women's March on Washington prompted calls for unity in resisting the policies of the Trump Administration
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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"
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...
Intro & Classics
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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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...