Where Are You Going,
Arizona?
Hollaback Goes
Global
Plan B Gets Some
Competition
The Echoes of
Suffrage
Girls Love Robots,
Too
Short Takes
Calendar
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Ping-Pong Hell
No Turning
Back
Confronting Roma
Tradition
Hong Kong’s Glass
Ceiling
Short Takes
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Jailing Girls for Men’s Crimes |
BY CARRIE BAKER
Is an underage girl arrested for selling sex
a criminal—or a victim of trafficking?
Outraged activists want to send such girls
to safe harbors, not jail.
Feminism in a Mad World |
BY AVIVA DOVE-VIEBAHN
Mad Men’s women remind us how far
we’ve come, and how far we have to go.
The Feminist Food Revolution |
BY J ENNIFER COGNARD-BLACK
From farms to community gardens to
restaurants, women are taking food back
into their own hands. So why do men keep
getting all the credit?
The Right of
Every Woman |
BY BELLE TAYLOR-MCGHE E
In Uganda, where maternal
mortality is way too high, local
communities dramatically get
out the word about safe
motherhood. |
Man-Made, Woman-Saved | BY ANTONIA JUHAS Z
Guess who’s helping clean up
BP’s Gulf Coast oil disaster—
and working to prevent another
from occurring?
Cuba Puts Women
Forward, But... | BY MARTHA BURK
Even with government
support for gender equality,
there’s still a cultural double
standard.
There’s Nothing
Friendly About Abuse | BY R. DIANNE BART LOW
Children are at risk when custody
cases rely on a meritless theory of
parental “alienation.”
Snakes | BY DANI E L L E E VANS
A young mixed-race girl learns
painfully that “we are safe, with
our families, until we are not.”
The Fourth in 235 Years | BY DONNA BRAZILE
Elena Kagan, if confirmed, will
further bridge the Supreme Court’s
huge gender gap.
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Vivian Gornick on Mary Walton’s A
Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and
the Battle for the Ballot; Janell
Hobson on Beverly Guy-Sheftall and
Johnnetta Betsch Cole’s Who Should
Be First?: Feminists Speak Out on
the 2008 Presidential Campaign;
Helena María Viramontes on Cristina
García’s The Lady Matador’s Hotel;
Ebony Utley on Michele Norris’ The
Grace of Silence; Erin Aubry Kaplan
on Ntozake Shange and Ifa Bayeza’s
Some Sing, Some Cry
Great reads for summer 2010
Feminist films available for
home viewing
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