Feminism

Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary

Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary Take the Oath: A Critic of Marriage Gets Teary

What, to a critic of marriage, makes the ceremony itself so tear-worthy?

Mar 28, 2013 / Blog / Laura Flanders

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make?

What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make? What Difference Will Same-Sex Marriage Make?

Sooner or later, marriage equality will win. What happens to marriage then?

Mar 27, 2013 / Column / Melissa Harris-Perry

In Oral Argument, Justices Seem Ready to Rule on the Constitutionality of DOMA

In Oral Argument, Justices Seem Ready to Rule on the Constitutionality of DOMA In Oral Argument, Justices Seem Ready to Rule on the Constitutionality of DOMA

If so, there will be a definitive ruling on the constitutionality of the federal law barring recognition of same-sex marriages that are valid under state law. 

Mar 27, 2013 / Blog / Nan D. Hunter

Pro Sports Can Help End Rape

Pro Sports Can Help End Rape Pro Sports Can Help End Rape

Major sports leagues should enlist themselves in the funding of curriculum to break the connections between jock culture and rape culture.

Mar 27, 2013 / Blog / Dave Zirin

What’s So Funny About Steubenville?

What’s So Funny About Steubenville? What’s So Funny About Steubenville?

Decades of feminist work on rape awareness may have changed policy, but it has done little to change the culture.

Mar 22, 2013 / Blog / Jessica Valenti

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique Unreal Choices: On The Feminine Mystique

For Betty Friedan, feminism was humanism: a question of growth, maturation and identity.

Mar 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Julia M. Klein

Rape Is Not Inevitable: On Zerlina Maxwell, Men and Hope

Rape Is Not Inevitable: On Zerlina Maxwell, Men and Hope Rape Is Not Inevitable: On Zerlina Maxwell, Men and Hope

When you argue that it’s impossible to stop rape, what you’re really saying is, I don’t care enough to do anything about it.

Mar 12, 2013 / Blog / Jessica Valenti

This Week: Moving Feminism Forward This Week: Moving Feminism Forward

We’ve come a long way, but we’ve a long way to go in progress for women’s rights.

Mar 9, 2013 / Blog / Katrina vanden Heuvel

On IWD, Protect Funding for VAWA

On IWD, Protect Funding for VAWA On IWD, Protect Funding for VAWA

Tell your representatives that domestic violence victims cannot be used as bargaining chips. Demand that any deal to avert the sequester restores full funding to VAWA programs.

Mar 8, 2013 / Take Action / NationAction

What ‘Oz’ Owes To Early Radical Feminism

What ‘Oz’ Owes To Early Radical Feminism What ‘Oz’ Owes To Early Radical Feminism

No joke: Much of Oz’s matriarchal leanings come straight from a radical American feminist.

Mar 8, 2013 / Blog / Michelle Dean

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