Nation Topics - Gender Issues | The Nation

Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.

Advocates of African-Americans and women achieve more by working together than by fighting.

The oppression of Muslim women is a major theme among the Islamofascistly aware. If only they felt the same about other women on earth.

David Horowitz serves up a witch's brew of Cheney-style anti-jihadism, mixed with anti-feminism and a sour dash of anti-Semitism.

A conversation with the author and Feministing.com founder about why the next wave of feminist activism will take place online.

A scourge of health problems has nail salon workers wondering about the industry's safety standards.

The lovelorn, fragile women the media once revered have given way to skank posses of the skinny, the slutty and the overindulged.

Wendy Shalit's new book pits "good girls" against "girls gone wild." But where's the middle ground?

Demonized for decades by ideological foes on the right and left, the mother of the birth control movement is finally able to speak for herself.

A Cuban writer pays tribute to Vilma Espín, wife of Raúl Castro and Cuba's first lady, who fought tirelessly for the rights of women in a male-dominated country.