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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.

Please send any ideas you may have for other or additional content from our database you think ought to appear in content boxes on this page to sysop@zmag.org.

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Latest Fem/Gender

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
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."
Marty: What Does a Post-Roe America Look Like?

As Anti-Choice Laws Multiply, Many Already Are Living In It
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
Durkin: ‘It Goes after Roe Directly’

Alabama's Abortion Bill Heads to State Senate
Bravo: Remaking 9 to 5?

What Today’s Working Women Want to See
Lunz: Feminist foreign policy

Imperative for a more secure and just world
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
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
Sturgis: The Texas fracking tycoon funding anti-abortion extremism

Number of abortion-restricting bills that have been introduced in state...
Wen: Trump’s “Pro-Life” Agenda Is Killing Thousands

State Laws Threaten to Ban Abortion
Beatley: Betting on Anti-feminism as a Winning Political Strategy

Unlike other European far-right parties, Spain’s Vox thinks fighting women’s rights is the key to success
Srebotnjak: Why feminists should focus on sorority and not independence

The “Feminist Republic” and the “Catalan Republic”, as they have been jointly sported on banners in recent pro-independence and feminist demonstrations, are a guarantee of nothing in themselves
Guimarães: Women are driving resistance to repression in Brazil

Women are the driving force behind the movement against increasing crackdowns on human rights in Brazil promoted by the new government
Rodriguez: Socialism Has to Be Feminist or It Won’t Be Emancipatory

Interview on how feminism intersects with the anti-imperialist and anticapitalist struggles
Hays: Abortion ban doesn’t reflect Kentucky values

I am fighting for the humanity for people to be treated with dignity and compassion as they make personal decisions and are given respect. These are the things I want my state to fight for and stand behind
Zulver: Women Weaving Life in Southern Colombia

In Colombia’s southern province of Putumayo, a group of women is stitching together social fabric despite an alarming number of ongoing threats and acts of violence against them
Pearson: Why You Shouldn’t Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty

We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies
MacLean: Sitting Pretty on a Sinking Ship: Neoliberal Feminism

What does it mean to be a feminist in the United States today?
Finley: VAWA and the NRA

That Congress has not already reauthorized the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is abhorrent

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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...