We've been remiss here at not noting the death of the great Shulamith Firestone. Although her life ended up in a sad decline of mental illness and death by cancer, Firestone shown bright in the early 1970s as a groundbreaking radical feminist, connecting patriarchy to...
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...because when I awoke and finally got a look at the "latest" transcript from the Republican's 2/22 debate in Arizona, this is what I heard: KING: Governor Romney, both Senator.
You probably thought this was about some other sexist academic, but it's actually about Vincent Hendricks, a philosopher who posted this on his website. Unlike that other sexist academic, Hendricks.
Somehow I missed the fact that a group of C-List conservative bloggers turned on themselves over the issue of propriety at CPAC. At the same event in which this high-minded little event took place, it was reported that the female attendees "looked like two-bit whores." That's...
Far be it for me, a lowly adjunct so depressed by the market he let his MLA membership lapse, to criticize Michael Bérubé, the current President of the MLA, but his.
Congratulations to our friends at Feministing for receiving a richly deserved Sidney Hillman Foundation award. Oddly, the foundation used the metric of reading the blog's content rather than the conservative.
Have indeed long been a NYT specialty. This week's, though...basing your latest Dowdesque nutty gender theory on...a scene from a (10 year-old!) TV show is particularly special.
On Monday at 3:09 p.m., Donald Douglas belittled Roy Edroso's feminist credentials for publishing at the Village Voice alongside a link to a bikini burlesque slide-show that a web-editor had.
Bad:For military women, who lack all rights to medical privacy, facing an unplanned pregnancy is a daunting obstacle. Thanks to anti-abortion forces in Congress, military hospitals are banned from providing.
A friend tips me off that the Friday after next (December 4) will be the 20th anniversary of the Women's Information Network, a DC social network organization for young, professional pro-choice women. The anniversary will be celebrated at the K Street Lounge. Details available here,...
Tom Philpott at Defense Tech:Women should be allowed to serve aboard America’s fleet of nuclear submarines, the nation's top military officer, Adm. Michael Mullen, quietly has told the Senate Armed.
For those who think that the threat John McCain poses to American women is the anti-Roe median vote he would try to put on the Supreme Court, Kate Sheppard and.