Barack Obama, Feminist in Chief?
Katha Pollitt : U.S. Economy
Obama should make gender equality a keystone of his presidency--and the economic stimulus is a great place to start.
2008
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Free Sarah Palin!
YouTube : Presidential Election 2008
CNN's Campbell Brown slams the McCain campaign for barring their own VP pick from speaking with reporters, a move Brown calls unequivocally 'sexist'.
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Sarah's Steel Ones
Amy Alexander : Presidential Campaigns & Elections
Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?
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Lipstick on a Wing Nut
Katha Pollitt : Presidential Election 2008
Ten tough questions for Sarah Palin. Really tough.
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Have Pantsuit, Will Travel
Patricia J. Williams : Convention 08
Hillary's signature attire is one phase in women's power-dressing; Michelle's sheath is another. But the shoes....
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Obama and the Sisters
Melissa Harris-Lacewell : Presidential Election 2008
His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.
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The Waitress Test
Connie Schultz : Presidential Election 2008
What does Barack Obama have to say to working-class women? Plenty. But he's got to prove he's willing to listen to their concerns.
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Let the Resurrection Begin
Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008
Hillary Clinton's moving speech cemented a place for herself and the feminist movement in the unfolding drama of the 2008 presidential election.
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Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves
Linda Gordon
The feminist health manual's message has evolved as its impact has spread globally.
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Hillary's Gift to Women
Barbara Ehrenreich : Presidential Election 2008
She's managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.
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Backlash Spectacular
Katha Pollitt
From campus to courtroom, longstanding gains for women are being eroded everywhere you look.
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Race to the Bottom
Betsy Reed : Presidential Election 2008
How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.
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Men of the Cloth
Katha Pollitt : Religion
When it comes to keeping women pregnant and in their place, polygamous Mormons and the Pope have a lot in common.
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Protecting the Women of Congo
Stephen Lewis : Congo
The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.
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Suffragist City
Mary Beth Norton : History
Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.
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Who's Got Game?
Robert Lipsyte : Sports
A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?
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John Q. Public
Katha Pollitt : Sex & Sexuality
Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.
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House of Cards
Patricia J. Williams : Racism & Discrimination
It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.
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Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins
Oswald Garrison Villard : Nation History
"Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."
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Morning in America
As voters choose sides in a momentous election, feminists call on women to reject the race-gender split.
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Wanted: More White Babies
Kathryn Joyce & VideoNation : Reproductive Rights
A look at a cynical Christian Conservative effort to export the U.S. culture wars.
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Ms.understanding
Katha Pollitt : Journalists & Journalism
The magazine walks into a trap labeled "political correctness," "left-wing anti-Semitism" and "multiculturalist Islam love."
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Black Women Talk Barack
Amy Alexander : African-Americans
It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.
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Bella's Way
Nona Willis Aronowitz : Biography
They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.
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