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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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Aguilar: ‘We’re unstoppable’: Meet the women leading Myanmar’s protests
These are some of the bold and brave women who have taken to the streets to protest against the military coup and demand a return to democracy
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Gutiérrez: Mexican feminists raise their voices against patriarchy
Faced with an epidemic of femicides and government inaction, Mexican feminists are turning to increasingly radical tactics in their collective quest for justice
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: Essential Strike Manifesto for March 8
A transnational network of radical feminist collectives is calling on all those who share their vision and demands to join the essential strike on March 8
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Jensen: ‘A simple boy from the prairie’
Radical feminism helped me understand how deeply patriarchy is woven into the fabric of everyday life and how central it is to the domination/subordination that defines the world
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Dispatch: Protests set to intensify across Poland as abortion ban comes into effect
The National Women’s Strike in Poland called for countrywide protests after the controversial judgment by the Polish constitutional court banning abortions in case of fetal defects came into effect on Wednesday
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Badash: Biden’s LGBTQ Executive Order Is Just the Start
Here Are the Other Pro-Equality Actions the Administration Is Taking
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Tognola: Argentina’s long history of struggle for legal abortion
After many years of campaigning, Argentina’s feminist movements booked a historic victory at the end of 2020 when abortion was finally legalized
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Raina: CJI Bobde’s Remarks on Women Protesters Are Patriarchal Diktat, Not Concern
When women fly planes and go up in space shuttles our hearts swell with pride, but when they lead protests and question, we deny them agency and express solicitude
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Pearson: Absence of Abortion Rights is Depriving Latin America of Agency and the Right to Thrive
Maybe if we were able to have complete agency and autonomy over our individual and collective lives, our self esteems would be stronger, love would be less broken, and we’d all get better at making good decisions
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Phillips: Argentina Legalizes Abortion in Landmark Moment for Women’s Rights
The victory is the result of five years of mass protest marches by Argentina’s grassroots women’s movement, which began as a Twitter campaign against gender violence
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Littlefield: With Abortion Rights Under Attack, Activists Urge Biden to Strike Hyde Amendment
“As our country undergoes a racial reckoning, I want to be very clear: the Hyde Amendment is a racist policy.”
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Benjamin: Feminism Not Militarism
Interview on the Movement to Oppose Michèle Flournoy as Pentagon Chief
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The Covid-19 global pandemic has illuminated the stark reality of whose labor it is that sustains our families, our communities, our clinics, our schools, our eldercare institutions, farms and food chains
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Karlis: Why Biden’s free childcare plan is a worthy feminist reform
Beyond the social element, there's a strong economic argument to be made for such a policy
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Jorden: Police Fire on Femicide Protest in Cancún
The details were sickening and at the same time so familiar. Another young woman missing, raped, murdered and mutilated
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Davidson: Post-Election Reckoning: New Hypotheses for the Road Ahead
The politics of this race do not make any sense unless one factors in racism and revanchism, the seeking of revenge
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Okun: Patriarchy’s Post Election End Days
We may have begun to acknowledge that racism has its knee on the necks of Black people, but to fully heal America we’ll have to admit patriarchy has its other knee on the necks of women
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Kolhatkar: How Coronavirus Exposed the Flaws of the Childcare Economy
The pandemic has revealed the barbaric nature of an economy that has largely left the care of children to the whims of market forces. The well-being of children, women, and especially women of color is at stake
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Walker: Barrett Decried Roe’s “Barbaric Legacy,” But Now Says She Doesn’t Have an Agenda
Amy Coney Barrett refused on Tuesday to give a straightforward answer on the question of whether she believes a landmark abortion case should remain intact or not
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Laven: The Menacing Threat of Hate and Political Violence
Rights for all races, all ethnicities, all religions, all sexual identities—all are vital in our America. We must defend our communities against the forces of division
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Susskind: A Feminist Blueprint for Saving Democracy in the U.S.—and Beyond
Feminists know that building transnational solidarity is often crucial when trying to counter domestic oppression
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Sargent: There’s No Such Thing As Legitimate Rape, Because There’s No Such Thing As Rape
For weeks on end, we heard about no pregnancy rape, bad weather rape, no rape in marriage, forced rape, gray rape—sex that falls between consent and denial—and date rape.
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Gordon: The Future May Be Female
Photo by Diegyms/Shutterstock.com Before I found myself “sheltering in...
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Benjamin: Saudi’s Brave Women Pull Back the Curtain on Crown Prince MBS
The bogus trial against Loujain al-Hathloul should compel governments around the world to put more pressure on the Saudis and demand al-Hathloul’s immediate and unconditional release
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Corbett: Millions of Women in Mexico Join “Day Without Us” Strike to Protest Gender-Based Violence
“In Mexico it’s like we’re in a state of war; we’re in a humanitarian crisis because of the quantity of women that have disappeared or been killed”
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Evans: Rising for a global feminist future with the movement to elect Bernie Sanders
All across this country and globe, women and children have been working toward a shift in collective consciousness
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Mazzarino: Women and Trauma in the Trump/Putin Era
Photo by Ms Jane Campbell/Shutterstock.com Last month, as hundreds...
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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
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...