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The
F Word
The word "feminist" still raises hackles. Is
claiming this word all about age, race, and class? |
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MS.CELLANEOUS:
-What?
-Just
The Facts
-Word: Impossible
-Women to Watch
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Zero
Balance
Those entering middle age are discovering--sometimes too
late--that women get the short end of the stick when it
comes to retirement benefits. |
YOUR
HEALTH:
-Healthnotes
-Women's Bodies are Finally Being Studied |
The
Abortion Pill
Making mifepristone available in this country took decades
of struggle and remains fraught with controversy. |
-Editor's
Page
-Letters
-The Guerilla Girls
-No Comment
-Poetry
-News
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Portfolio:
Romaine Brooks
Lesbian society in Paris at the turn of the 20th century
is captured by this groundbreaking portraitist. |
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Women: Rosario Robles' Bold Agenda |
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Books:
-The
Serpent Slayer by Katrin Tchana, Illustrated
by Trina Schart Hyman
-Desirada,
Maryse Conde
-Glory
Goes And Gets Some, Emily Carter
-The
Moon Pearl, Ruthanne Lum McCunn
-Kiss
My Tiara, Susan Jane Gilman
-Motiba's
Tattoos, Mira Kamdar
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-First
Person: By Any Other Name
-Columns: Daisy Hernandez, Patricia Smith and Gloria
Steinem |
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women of color I interviewed for the book I'm working
on felt disillusioned with white feminists. Many said
they had a na.ve hope that feminism would be a safe space,
a space to forge solidarity with other women, gain access
to social power in institutions. What they found was that
white women often get positioned as the gateway through
which access is monitored. |
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the personal connection is lacking. White women are not
investing their lives and emotions in women of color.
There is no culture of care across racial lines. There
are white women reaching out, but that's the exception,
not the rule. And the white women know it. Two white women
I interviewed cried. They are sitting on a mound of emotional
baggage and guilt. But the discontent could be used to
maneuver change. |
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