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Welcome to Feminism/Gender Watch,

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

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
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
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’
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
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
Gordon: From Mowing the Grass to Cutting the Flesh

How Young Women Learn to Hate Their Genitals
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
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
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
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
Spade: Women Now Run the Military-Industrial Complex

That’s Nothing To Celebrate
Monbiot: The fear that lies behind aggressive masculinity

Fearful masculinity harms both men and women. There are better ways of growing up
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
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
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
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
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
: Our bodies are a battleground

Reports on women fighting back against Iran's morality laws
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
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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ZMag Fem/Gender

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.
McAlevey: #MeToo & Labor

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
Slaughter: Low-Wage Harassment

Sexual harassment doesn’t happen just to glamorous women in glamorous industries
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
Tax: United Fronts

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.
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.
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
Podur: Women Rise Up

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.
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
Cole: Trump’s Plan for Women

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.

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Video Fem./Gender

Strike - UK: Why We Strike

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
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
Eisenstein: Race, Gender and Socialism

A discussion on race, gender, feminism, and socialism
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
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

Armitstead: Rosa Luxemburg

In International Women's Week, the Guardian asks 'who are the heroines of literature?'...
Shiva: The Rights of Mother Earth

Dr.Vandana Shiva, India’s preeminent environmentalist, eco feminist, author, and winner...
Folbre: The Socialist Feminist Imaginary

NANCY FOLBRE is Professor of Economics at the University of...
Sienema: Mujeres Creando

This song was very difficult to write because I had...
Shalom: System Upgrades

If part of the Left’s agenda involves building a new...