Let the Resurrection Begin
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
Hillary Clinton's moving speech cemented a place for herself and the feminist movement in the unfolding drama of the 2008 presidential election.
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Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves
Linda Gordon
The feminist health manual's message has evolved as its impact has spread globally.
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Hillary's Gift to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich : Presidential Election 2008
She's managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.
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Backlash Spectacular
Katha Pollitt
From campus to courtroom, longstanding gains for women are being eroded everywhere you look.
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Race to the Bottom
Betsy Reed : Presidential Election 2008
How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.
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Men of the Cloth
Katha Pollitt : Religion
When it comes to keeping women pregnant and in their place, polygamous Mormons and the Pope have a lot in common.
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Protecting the Women of Congo
Stephen Lewis : Congo
The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.
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Suffragist City
Mary Beth Norton : History
Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.
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Who's Got Game?
Robert Lipsyte : Sports
A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
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John Q. Public
Katha Pollitt : Sex & Sexuality
Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
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House of Cards
Patricia J. Williams : Racism & Discrimination
t would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
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Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins
Oswald Garrison Villard : Nation History
"Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."
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Morning in America
As voters choose sides in a momentous election, feminists call on women to reject the race-gender split.
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Wanted: More White Babies
Kathryn Joyce & VideoNation : Reproductive Rights
A look at a cynical Christian Conservative effort to export the U.S. culture wars.
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Ms.understanding
Katha Pollitt : Journalists & Journalism
The magazine walks into a trap labeled "political correctness," "left-wing anti-Semitism" and "multiculturalist Islam love."
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Black Women Talk Barack
Amy Alexander : African-Americans
It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
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Bella's Way
Nona Willis Aronowitz : Biography
They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
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Long Roe to Hoe
Frances Kissling & Kate Michelman : Reproductive Rights
Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.
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Reconstruction Lessons
Eric Foner : African-Americans
Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.
2007
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David Horowitz, Feminist?
Katha Pollitt : Islam & Muslims
The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.
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It's Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week!
Barbara Ehrenreich : Racism & Discrimination
David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.
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Jessica Valenti: Full Frontal Feminism
A conversation with the author and Feministing.com founder about why the next wave of feminist activism will take place online.
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The High Price of Beauty
Virginia Sole-Smith : Working Conditions
A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.
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The Diana/Whore Complex
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.
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The Virginity Mystique
Nona Willis-Aronowitz : Sex & Sexuality
Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?
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Sanger vs. Sanger
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow : Reproductive Rights
Demonized for decades by ideological foes on the right and left, the mother of the birth control movement is finally able to speak for herself.
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Remembering Vilma Espín
A Cuban writer pays tribute to Vilma Espín, wife of Raúl Castro and Cuba's first lady, who fought tirelessly for the rights of women in a male-dominated country.
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Anything Boys Can Do...
The Dangerous Book for Boys does no boy a favor by resuscitating the Anglo-imperial manly ideals. And what about girls?
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What Women See When They See Hillary
Lakshmi Chaudhry : Hillary Clinton
Some of the same feminists who loved Hillary as First Lady are now fiercely opposing her bid for the White House.
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'Feckless'? No Way!
Katha Pollitt : Islam & Muslims
Who says American feminists have ignored the plight of Muslim women?
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'Democracy' Is Hell
In a gruesome marriage of technology and medieval barbarity, an Internet video records the stoning death of a 17-year-old Kurdish girl. Welcome to the new Iraq.
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The Supergirl Syndrome
The marketing-driven message of the perfect girl--smart, skinny, pretty, athletic and loved by all--is a model of perfection that's hard to live up to. Can't girls just be free to be?
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The Good Victim
Gary Younge : Racism & Discrimination
Why do we hand-pick seemingly pure and innocent victims of injustice--such as the Rutgers basketball players--in order to combat American racism?
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Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!
What aroused Imus's twisted admiration and antagonism was the reality of strong, determined, aggressive women.
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Rutgers Team Is an Instrument for Change
Carol Jenkins : Media Analysis
The fact that the media is astonished that the Rutgers athletes are articulate and smart is a tragedy.
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Don Imus and the State of Women's Sports
It's been thirty-five years since Title IX was passed, and women athletes are still battling the kind of sexism Imus espouses.
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The Care Crisis
Ruth Rosen : Children & Child Care
Working mothers can't pamper their stress away--their balancing act needs a political fix.
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Tillie Olsen: 1912-2007
Celebrating the eloquence of the feminist, activist and writer in whose work memory, history, poetry and prophecy converge.
2006
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Double, Double Toil and Trouble
"Is it just my imagination, or are women wreaking more evil than usual these days?"
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction
Christine Smallwood : Non-Fiction
Laura Kipnis's The Female Thing takes women to task for perpetuating the notion that they're vulnerable.
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Ellen Willis, 1941-2006
Friends and colleagues remember Ellen Willis, political essayist, journalist, rock critic and valued contributor to The Nation, who died November 9.
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Questions for Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt answers questions about feminism, politics and her new book, Virginity or Death! And Other Pressing Social Issues of Our Times.
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Legal Weapon
International law offers protection to the oppressed. In Are Women Human?, feminist legal scholar Catharine A. MacKinnon exposes the hypocrisy of not extending the same protection to women.
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Mommy Wars, Round 587
Antifeminists engage in moral discourse while feminists tend to speak in the language of personal choice. But what happens when choice is a bad idea--for yourself, other women or society?
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The Motherhood Manifesto
Joan Blades & Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner : Wages & Hours
Mothers in America are in serious need of a new deal to remedy a profound wage gap with other working women and men, and an outdated family support structure.
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Erasing Whiteness
Silja J.A. Talvi : Racism & Discrimination
If women expect to shed the cruel and calculating artifice of race in our lifetimes, we must contribute to the emerging generation of literature that deconstructs racial categories.
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The Normalcy of Fear
Rachel Corbett & Anja Tranovich : Iraq War
A delegation of Iraqi women is traveling the country in an effort to convey the grim realities of the US occupation.
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Three Who Made a Revolution
Rebecca Solnit : Environmental Activism
Rachel Carson, Betty Friedan and Jane Jacobs opened vast new possibilities for social transformation by writing about widespread attacks on nature, women and the poor.
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Macho, Macho Militarism
Cynthia Enloe : Peace Activism
On this year's International Women's Day, antiwar feminists take note of how our society has become increasingly militarized as a cult of masculinity has tightened its grip on American politics.
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In a Lonely Place
Elizabeth Cady Stanton's legacy as both an admirable revolutionary and a profound thinker is brought to life in Vivian Gornick's The Solitude of Self.
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Betty Friedan, 1921-2006
Betty Friedan lived a big life and wrote a big book that helped change our world, in every way, for the better.
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Prochoice Puritans
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
As prochoicers seek to reframe their arguments, injecting more moralism into the antiabortion debate will not keep abortion legal and accessible.
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When Will US Women Demand Peace?
Medea Benjamin : Peace Activism
Polls show large numbers of American women have grave doubts about the Iraq War: But where are they? A new campaign aims to mobilize American women for global protests March 8.
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Girls Against Boys?
Katha Pollitt : Higher Education
Women now outnumber men at colleges and universities, but higher education has not become the fluffy pink playpen of feminism that some conservatives envision.
2005
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Nancy Has Two Mommies
Brenda Wineapple : Non-Fiction
Nancy Drew has been a fixture in young girls' lives since 1930. But the continuing appeal of this spunky American icon--never sad, wrinkled or misunderstood--is both heartwarming and a little scary.
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Eggs vs Ethics in Stem Cell Debate
Emily Galpern & Marcy Darnovsky : Stem Cell Research & Human Cloning
Reports of ethical breaches in the harvesting of human eggs for stem cell research in Korea has focused attention on the need to protect the health and welfare of women who might be pressured into becoming donors.
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President Thelma
Richard Goldstein : Television
Is Commander-in-Chief softening up the country for President Hillary? Americans may not not be ready to put a woman in the White House, but they may have calmed down enough to contemplate the pleasures of female power.
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The World According to Dowd
Maureen Dowd has done her best to declare feminism dead. But by insisting that men are scared of spunky successful women, it doesn't occur to her that she is promoting, rather than reporting on, the problem she describes.
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Madam President, Madam President
As the backlash against women gets daily more open and absurd, our real-life female politicians seem paralyzed. It's up to television now: Run, Geena, run!
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If Not Miers, Who?
Dear Karl Rove: Just in case Harriet Miers doesn't work out, why not nominate me?
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Spreading the Dough
Ruth Conniff : Campaign Finance
How can the left build a new majority? EMILY's List has a big piece of the answer.
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Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League?
Katha Pollitt : New York Times
Why does the New York Times feel compelled to perpetuate the myth that smart, striving women are increasingly opting out of a career to be stay-at-home moms?
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Theocracy Lite
Katha Pollitt : Foreign Affairs
How can women be equal before Islamic law, according to which they are unequal?
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The Dutch-Muslim Culture War
Deborah Scroggins : Islam & Muslims
The debate over women and Islam is polarizing Dutch society.
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Hail Mary
A new biography of one of the Enlightment's most remarkable thinkers.
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A Crime to Dream
Edwidge Danticat : Domestic Violence
Women seeking refuge in the United States receive a cold welcome.
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Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005
Katha Pollitt : Sex & Sexuality
I never thought I would miss unfair, infuriating, over-the-top Andrea Dworkin.
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Summers of Our Discontent
Katha Pollitt : Racism & Discrimination
As the saying goes, behind every successful woman is a man who is surprised. Harvard president Larry Summers apparently is that man.
2004
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Down and Out in Discount America
Liza Featherstone : Wages & Hours
It's the poor who make Wal-Mart tick.
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Red Sluts, Blue Sluts
Richard Goldstein : Television
Desperate Housewives is liberal on the surface but conservative at the core.
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Stop Crying, Start Working
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
How long did it take Republicans to write their thank-you note to the Christian right? About five minutes.
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Southern Ms.
Ashley Sayeau : Activism & Organizing
A gathering of feminists is an occasion to commiserate and to strategize.
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Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter
Has the Christian right really so little to show for its self-sacrifice?
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Letter From Afghanistan
The strange story of the Herati shelter girls shows the limits of "liberation."
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The Girlie Vote
Katha Pollitt : Presidential Election 2004
Since when are women--51 percent of the population--a special interest?
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The Rules of Attraction
Hillary Frey : Marriage & Divorce
Why Ms. Independent still wants to get hitched.
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Marching for Women's Lives
Hillary Frey : Reproductive Rights
Anyone who thinks the contemporary women's movement is dying, over or simply irrelevant will have to think again.
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Down and Out in Texas
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
Did you know that since January 1, women in Texas have not been able to obtain abortions from the sixteenth week of pregnancy on?
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Pregnant and Dangerous
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
This is what we've come to in America: failure to produce a live, healthy, non-drug-exposed baby can land you in prison.
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Silence=Rape
While the world looks the other way, sexual violence spreads in the Congo.
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Kristof to the Rescue?
Katha Pollitt : New York Times
Nicholas Kristof is once again accusing American feminists of ignoring Third World women and girls.
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We're Not Sorry, Charlie
Jennifer Baumgardner : Reproductive Rights
If abortion were connected to actual women perhaps the mounting restrictions wouldn't pass so handily.
2003
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Strip Till You Drop
Teen girls are the target market for a new wave of stripper-inspired merchandise.
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Phallic Balloons Against the War
Katha Pollitt : Peace Activism
March 3 saw the emergence of a new kind of protest against war.
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Mighty in Pink
Liza Featherstone : Peace Activism
A clever new wave of feminist antiwar activism manages is sweeping the nation.
2002
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'Stakes Is High'
Jeff Chang : African-Americans
As the central marker of urban youth of color authenticity, rap music has become the key to the niching of youth culture.
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Where Were the Women?
Anna Greenberg : Voters & Voting
This November women were less enthusiastic about the Democrats, a situation that, unless corrected quickly, suggests serious trouble ahead.
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Wal-Mart Values
Liza Featherstone : Working Conditions
Wal-Mart is not only a horrifyingly stingy employer: Many workers say it is also a sexist one.
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Wanted: A Few Good Girls
Karen Houppert : Conservatives & The American Right
Right-wing foundation seeks eligible young women for meaningful relationship.
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Join the EC E-mail Campaign
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
The main barrier to EC use is that most women don't know what it is.
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Beauty Tips and Politics
Lauren Sandler : Media Analysis
Hot media news: Women want hard-hitting reports on issues that affect them.
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Backlash Babies
Katha Pollitt : Children & Child Care
More equality and support, not lowered expectations is what women need at work and at home.
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An Uneasy Peace
Afghan women are free of the Taliban, but liberation is still a distant dream.
2001
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Where Are the Women?
The notion that Afghan women are too depleted to play a leading role in government should be forever dispelled after Brussels.
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Women in War
Women's participation in the peace process is crucial to insuring peace and stability for all of Afghanistan.
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Where Are the Women?
Now more than ever, RAWA, which opposes both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance as violent, lawless, misogynistic and antidemocratic, deserves attention and support.
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Vaginal Politics
If feminists don't talk about sex in a fun, accessible, inspiring, nonpuritanical way, who will?
2000
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This week: Can Barack Obama be a "People's President," or is his move to the center for good? Betsy Reed, Doug Henwood, Jo-Ann Mort, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Gary Younge debate. (13mb mp3)
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