The Year in Feminism The Year in Feminism
Amid the bad news for women, the year had its bright moments.
Dec 30, 2013 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Please Don’t Call it ‘Rape Insurance’: Michigan’s Anti-Choice Bill Hurts All Women Please Don’t Call it ‘Rape Insurance’: Michigan’s Anti-Choice Bill Hurts All Women
The term “rape insurance” does a disservice to women—and to the reproductive justice movement.
Dec 12, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
Nelson Mandela, Feminist Nelson Mandela, Feminist
Few people know that Mandela was a global leader on reproductive freedom.
Dec 9, 2013 / Ilyse Hogue
Why the Anti-Choice Movement Is Attacking My Play, ‘MOM BABY GOD’ Why the Anti-Choice Movement Is Attacking My Play, ‘MOM BABY GOD’
Based on two years of undercover research, MOM BABY GOD explores the student arm of the anti-choice movement.
Dec 6, 2013 / StudentNation / Madeline Burrows and StudentNation
The Progressive’s Guide to Holiday Giving The Progressive’s Guide to Holiday Giving
Want to help Texas women? African AIDS orphans? Here's how.
Dec 4, 2013 / Column / Katha Pollitt
Birth Control Coverage: It’s the Misogyny, Stupid Birth Control Coverage: It’s the Misogyny, Stupid
These cases are not about religious freedom or employer’s rights. They’re about misogyny.
Nov 26, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
‘We Had One Enemy; Now We Have Three’—A Conversation With Malalai Joya of Afghanistan ‘We Had One Enemy; Now We Have Three’—A Conversation With Malalai Joya of Afghanistan
US forces used the plight of Afghan women to justify war—but twelve years later, women are still suffering.
Nov 13, 2013 / Dani McClain
Q&A: Texas Passed a Law Restricting Abortion Rights—Meet One of the Women Fighting Back Q&A: Texas Passed a Law Restricting Abortion Rights—Meet One of the Women Fighting Back
Texas Equal Access fund Executive Director Merritt Tierce says the fight against Texas’ new abortion laws will continue and intensify.
Nov 5, 2013 / Jessica Valenti
‘After Tiller’: The Abortions No One Wants To Talk About ‘After Tiller’: The Abortions No One Wants To Talk About
The acclaimed documentary turns an compassionate lens on a complicated, multi-faceted issue.
Nov 5, 2013 / Laura Flanders
The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist The Notorious Life of a Nineteenth-Century Abortionist
Novelist Kate Manning richly reimagines Madame Restell as a defender of women from the horrors of poverty, male privilege and their own physiology.
Oct 9, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Katha Pollitt