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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.
ZCom's Gender/Feminism Watch page seeks to present news, analysis, and vision bearing on the situation and activty of women to eliminate the subordination they have endured.
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Latest Fem/Gender
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Lennard: The Structural #MeToo Victories We Need
This week in New York, victory took the form of some of the most robust anti-harassment, gender equality legislation to be passed in the country
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Pember: #MeToo in Indian Country
Sexual harassment in Indian Country is an inconvenient and deeply uncomfortable truth
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Conley: ‘Unconscionable’ Abortion Bans
"What brings us together is our view that as prosecutors we should not and will not criminalize healthcare decisions such as these."
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Reyes: Alabama abortion fund buoyed by outpouring of support
Interview about what the ban's passage means for her organization's work and about the influx of donations in the wake of the ban's passage
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Gersen: Fetal Personhood Next Stage of the Abortion Wars
If fetuses are thought to have basic rights as persons do, then a future ruling might reach beyond overturning Roe. It might hold that it is unconstitutional for any state to allow abortions at all
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Yakupitiyage: The Escalating War on Reproductive Rights
Abortion has long been a contentious issue across the world, and the debate is only heating up, prompting women to stand up and speak out for their reproductive rights
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Kang-Brown: America’s Growing Gender Jail Gap
In the middle of her senior year at Pomona High in eastern Los Angeles County, Amber Rose Howard was arrested and booked into county jail. Howard had been accepted into several colleges when she was admitted to jail on felony charges
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Burk: The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades
Merely banning abortion isn't enough for some on the rabid right — a few are even threatening women with the death penalty
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Robinson: 99 Years In Prison For Providing Abortions Under New Law
Interview with Dr. Yashica Robinson, the medical director of the Alabama Women’s Center for Reproductive Alternatives, one of only three clinics left in the state that offer patients abortion services
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Boseley: Trump takes war on abortion worldwide as policy cuts off funds
While US statehouses pass extremist anti-abortion legislation, the Trump Administration has taken its war on abortion worldwide, cutting off funding to any overseas organization or clinic that will not agree to a complete ban on even discussing it
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Conley: Warren Introduces Plan to Protect Abortion Rights
"We must build a future that protects the right of all women to have children, the right of all women to not have children, and the right to bring children up in a safe and healthy environment."
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Marty: What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like?
As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It
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Russo: Locking people up won’t help combat sexual violence
We need look beyond individual punishment to tackle a crisis which pervades the fabric of our society
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Smith: Lies, Damn Lies, and Abortion
In a race to see who can be first to directly challenge abortion rights before the high court, their proxies in state houses across the country gleefully file legislation that can only be described as draconian
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Burk: The Most Dangerous Time for Women’s Rights in Decades
Since President Trump succeeded in elevating Brett Kavanaugh — an abortion foe, alleged sexual assailant, and mean drunk to boot — to the Supreme Court, his right-wing lynch mob has launched a laser-focused attack on reproductive freedom
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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
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...