Archive for 'women’s rights'
You Have the Right to Fewer Choices.
Right. So I said I’d take a break, and I haven’t slept in a while, but this bears repeating: They’re passing a TRAP law in Wisconsin (curtsy to Pandagon ). Basically, this means that women who are trying to get abortions and abortion providers will both need to jump through more hoops to “prevent women [...]
Posted: November 7th, 2007 under ACLU, Carhart, Justice Kennedy, Louise Melling, Misogyny, Pandagon, Supreme Court, abortion, abortion providers, abuse, anti-choice, birth, bullshit, carhart vs. gonzales, childbirth, coercion, consent, danger, dark humor, domestic violence, feminist, freedom, government, gynecologist, gynecology, health care, human rights, informed consent, insult, joke, justice, law, legislation, mandatory wait periods, motherhood, power, rape, stupid, terrorism, terrorists, trap law, waiting period, wisconsin, women, women's rights.
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Every (Male) Sperm Is Sacred.
. . .That’s pretty close to the text of a new bill introduced to the Ohio legislature by Republican John Adams, who suggests that women who are trying to get an abortion should have to get written permission from their fetus’ fathers in order to abort. Yep, that’s right. The Record Courier reports that the [...]
Posted: August 3rd, 2007 under Department of Justice, Feministing, Jessica Valenti, John Adams, NARAL, Ohio, abort, abortion, abortion ban, anti-choice, bill, birth, dominance, father, fetus, financial responsibility, freedom, human rights, incest, intelligence, justice, law, legislature, man, parents, partial birth abortion, paternal permission, paternity, paternity test, permission, police, police report, politics, privacy, pro-choice, rape, rapist, record courier, reproductive rights, republican, sex, sperm, sperm bank, unborn children, women's rights.
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Power Dynamics: Is Feminism the Crack of the Academy?
This is a long one. If you’re not interested in theory or crack, you might like this instead. I’ve been writing a lot about the machismo present here in Buenos Aires, and I’ve been looking at it from a pretty unilateral and experience-based place. So it was interesting to read Jo Doezema’s article, “Ouch! Western [...]
Posted: July 4th, 2007 under Amsterdam, Andrea Dworkin, Britain, Buenos Aires, Catherine MacKinnon, Coalition Against the Trafficking of Women, Female Sexuality, Japan, Jo Doezema, Once Plaza, Ouch!, Sheila Jeffries, academy, anthropology, autonomy, class, communion, crack, culture, feminism, feminist, first world, geisha, health care, human rights, human rights caucus, identification, injury, kathleen barry, machismo, men, moral autonomy, objectification, oppression, political, power, power structure, prostitute, sex, sex partner, sex positive, sex positivity, sex work, sex worker, sexual objectification, sexual subordination, social stigma, stripper, the state, the west, theory, thesis, third world, white, whore, women, women's rights, wounded attachment.
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We're Not Taking This Sitting Down: The Standing Committee on the Status of Women
Okay, okay, I’m not Canadian, and at this rate, I probably won’t be. But Canada is at a commendable stage of self-examination right now: a stage that the U.S. is actually still in. Oh, okay, you’re saying, Marinara over there is hitting the sauce a little too hard for a Sunday morning in Buenos Aires. [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2007 under Adisa Banjoko, Canada, Civil Rights, Congress, Equal Rights Amendment, Yasmin Ratansi, amendment, black, canadian MP, consititution, cultural criticism, english, equal pay, french, gender culture, gender equality, heterosexual, hip hop, law, legislation, love, muslim, pay, pregnancy, race, sex discrimination, sexism, sexual harassment, unequal, violence, violence against women, women's rights.
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Hey, Boys!
So I spent this evening hanging out with my brother watching NBA final game three, and I wound up spending more time thinking about men and masculinity, and how their gender roles confine them as individuals as well. A commentator pointed out that Gibson’s choice to pass instead of shooting made this a game of [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under Cynthia Cooper, NBA, WNBA, basketball, brother, commercial, feminism, feminists, gender, gender power, gender roles, homoeroticism, masculinity, myfaves, sports, t-mobile, women's rights.
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Who cares if you got raped: stop staring at my dog!
Holy shit, check out this horrific story from Rawstory.com: I don’t know what to say. The horror is heightened by the fact that I know and love Chelsea, VT. Also, to lighten things up: (thanks, Danno!)
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Vermont, alternative justice system, cartoon, dog, get your war on, jurisprudence, police, rape, sexual assault, shoetying, terrorism, theft, women battering, women's rights.
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The Jessica Valenti Rapport
So last night, the guest on the Colbert Report was none other than Feministing.com‘s executive editor, Jessica Valenti, talking about her new book, Full Frontal Feminism. Read the rest of this entry for video of Jessica on Colbert. Sorry so grainy.
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under Colbert Report, Female Sexuality, Gloria Steinham, Jane Fonda, Jessica Valenti, Mardi Gras, Misogyny, Pornography, Stephen Colbert, Women and Gender Studies, birth control, femininity, feminism, gender, gender bias, mental health, objectification, rape, sexual harassment, sexual inequality, shemale, standard of beauty, violence against women, women's rights.
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