Focus on the Fetus
Katha Pollitt : Reproductive Rights
The trouble with protesting the Tim Tebow ad: all most people see is pro-choicers trying to shut up a brave mother and her son.
2010
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The Second Sex at the Super Bowl
Jaclyn Friedman : Sports
The Tim Tebow commercial is no departure at all for viewers of the big game.
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Honor Killing by Any Other Name
Anna Momigliano : Human Rights
To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.
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Free Nazia Quazi
Katha Pollitt : Human Rights
How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?
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Alice's Wonderlands
Jana Prikryl : Film
The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.
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The Decade for Women: Forward, Backward, Sideways?
Katha Pollitt
Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.
2009
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Pregnant, in Prison and Denied Care
Incarcerated women have achieved a string of victories against inhumane treatment in childbirth. But what about access to healthcare for all pregnant women in prison, not just those in labor?
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Feminism's Face-Lift
Alexandra Suich : Health Care Policy
Can a tax on breast enhancements and liposuction be channeled to benefit the public good?
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Last Column About Sarah Palin--Ever
We can't stop looking at our first female political train wreck.
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Women Ski Jumpers Grounded
A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.
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The World's Women Stuck in the UN's Blind Spot
Barbara Crossette : United Nations
"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?
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Keeping Focus on Fighting Genital Mutilation
Is the campaign to fight female genital mutilation meeting new resistance not only in traditional societies but among Western anthropologists?
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Where's the Birth Control?
Sharon Lerner : Health Care Policy
Another complication in healthcare reform legislation has emerged: so far, it fails to require insurers to cover basic preventive services for women, including contraception.
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Working Women: Strength in Numbers
First feminism was dead because it was a "failure"; now it's dead because it was such a success.
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Remember the Women?
Women belong at the center of the debate over the Afghan war, not on the margins.
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A Female Economics Laureate: Why Only Now?
The first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics serves as both a landmark and an alarming reflection of the limited role of women in the physical sciences.
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Beyond Rescue
The campaign against forced prostitution works when it addresses victims' needs.
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