Latest Fem/Gender
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Lalaguna: When did rape become entertainment?
Destroying gender inequality once and for all, is an essential precondition for both race and class equality to be achieved
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Facet: A feminist outpouring shakes the Spanish state
Interview on the background to the uprising and what it means for future organizing
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Speri: Detained, Then Violated
1,224 Complaints Reveal a Staggering Pattern of Sexual Abuse in Immigration Detention. Half of Those Accused Worked for ICE
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Sweeny: Indiana law makes abortion part of a permanent record
New abortion law requires doctors to keep records that can follow patients through life
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Abdul-Jabbar: The NFL’s plan to protect America from witches
The NFL’s cheerleader problem shows exactly what’s wrong with the league’s management: They insist on being the self-appointed guardians of America’s mythological vision of itself
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Hess: Zapatista women inspire fight against patriarchy
What the event last month demonstrated to many of those who were present, was the need to create safe spaces for all women
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Pember: ‘It’s Time for Indian Women to Be Heard’
The Promise and Problems of the Tribal Law and Order Act
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Hawkins: Nurses Are Calling #TimesUp on Domestic Abuse
Emergency room encounters reveal the work that remains to be done to curb intimate partner violence
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Pope-Weidemann: Women are the resistance
Meet the women activists from around the world taking up the fight for social justice
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Coppens: ‘If we stop, the world stops’
Behind the millions-strong women’s strike that shook the Spanish state
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Gies: “Don’t Surrender, Don’t Sell Out”
The Zapatistas’ First International Gathering of Women Who Struggle
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Solnit: #MeToo, Mass Movements and “Men Explain Things to Me”
Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about. … Every woman knows what I’m talking about
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Ransby: Hollywood Won’t Save Us
Instead, Let's Build a Revitalized Radical Feminism
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Carrión: In Spain, Women Launch Nationwide Feminist Strike
We call for rebellion and a struggle against the alliance of the patriarchy and capitalism that wants us to be obedient, submissive and quiet
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Bhattacharya: Emancipation Comes Through the Rejection of Capitalism
From Afghanistan to the Philippines to Mexico to Spain, women across the globe are taking to the streets to mark International Women’s Day
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Durkay: It’s been a long time coming
What this year's Oscars tell us about where movies are headed
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Contributors: Kurdish Women call for a global women’s movement
Kurdish women call on women around the world to come together to build a radical movement for women's liberation
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Jeong-eun: Korea’s fight against sexual violence
In Korea, much like the rest of the world, the #MeToo movement created the space to bring forth one’s experiences of sexual violence demanding to be shared with the world
ZMag Fem/Gender
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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
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Slaughter: Low-Wage Harassment
Sexual harassment doesn’t happen just to glamorous women in glamorous industries
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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...
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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Black: Beyond Parts Per Million
Here is a great publication that I helped to put...
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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...
