Latest Fem/Gender

• Riddiough: Women: The Longest Revolution

  Mitchell takes a great leap in proposing that the oppression of women must be seen as coming from a matrix of origins: production, reproduction, socialization of children and sexuality
• Jones: Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense

  The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl...
• Mercer: Never mind a second chance. Our incarcerated women need a first one

  The US imprisons more women than any other country. But many of them had every odd stacked against them
• Coffey: The Limits of Excellence

  A feminism based on lionizing hyper-successful women obscures the unjust structures that need to be dismantled
• Biehl: Review: A Road Unforeseen — Women Fight the Islamic State

  “Any movement for real transformation must make the demands of women central,” argues Meredith Tax in her book on the Kurdish women’s struggle.
• Kann: How A Right-Wing Media Myth About Planned Parenthood Could Hurt Florida’s Fight Against Zika

  Anti-choice lawmakers instead invoked a right-wing media myth to attack Planned Parenthood and block its efforts to help combat a potential outbreak
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  Chen: Women Day Laborers Are Tired of Waiting for Work, and for Justice

  In Brooklyn, a new study shows that women face an underground labor market fraught with hidden risks
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  Street: Political Correctness: Handle with Care

  Racial, gender, and ethnic diversity matters, of course, but political correctness (PC) tied to bourgeois identity politics can be deadly to Left thinkers and activists and to the causes of peace and social justice
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  Fletcher: Changing the Paradigm: Women, National Liberation & Revolution in the 21st Century

  A review of A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State, by Meredith Tax
• Bever: ‘You took away my worth’: A sexual assault victim’s powerful message to her Stanford attacker

  She’s known in local newspapers as 23-year-old “Emily Doe” —...
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  Sturgis: A win for women’s rights in landmark Texas abortion case

  Rank of the South among regions where women face some of the most severe restrictions on abortion: 1
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  Levinson: Veterans lead fight against sexual assault in the military

  What support can be provided to survivors and how can change in the military be pushed forward?
• Solomon: I Assumed It Was Racism—It Was Patriarchy

  Why are some women more invisible than others? To grow new anti-patriarchal movements like Black Lives Matter, we need to start opening our eyes
• Braatz: The Confessions of Brock Turner and a Culture of Punishment

  To understand the influence of the culture of punishment, imagine a culture obsessed with rehabilitation instead
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  Chemaly: When It Comes to Orlando Massacre, Domestic Violence is the Red Flag We Aren’t Talking About

  In a new article for Rolling Stone, journalist Soraya Chemaly...
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  Jones: The Tyranny of Trump

  Millions of Women See Through Him, Even If the Media Don’t
• Buhle: This Feminist is #Still Sanders

  A single woman in higher office pales before the vision of a social democracy that brings a higher standard of life to so many
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  Cole: Welcome to the Party, America! 11 Muslim women who have been PM or President

  Hillary Clinton gave a victory speech Tuesday night positioning herself...
• LaFrance: When Will the Internet Be Safe for Women?

  The fight to make law enforcement take online threats seriously
• Atencio: Peru: In Defense of Land, Culture and the Female Body

  Rooted in an ancestral cosmovision of their indigenous communities, a central struggle has been the fight for their subsistence, in maintaining land, water and seed sovereignty

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