Gender

The New Misogyny: What It Means for Teachers and Classrooms

By The Editors of Rethinking Schools / Rethinking Schools

The vilification of K-12 teachers is part and parcel of the growing misogyny we are witnessing in today's United States.

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Accusations of Same-Sex Hanky-Panky Provoke Bigoted Response, Then Apology, From Florida's Anti-Gay Lt. Gov.

By T.F. Charlton / AlterNet

Nationwide Boycott of Hyatt Hotels Launched; LGBT and Feminist Organizations Join Unions to Fight for Workers

By s.e. smith / AlterNet

5 Food Companies Run by Radical Right-Wingers

By Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

Debunking the Latest Smear Effort by the Rabidly Anti-Choice Personhood Campaign

By Lara Riscol / Religion Dispatches

'Crisis Pregnancy Center' that Made Couples Study the Bible Now Suing for Taxpayer Dollars

Stephen Colbert Mocks Absurd Fox News Piece About the Sexual Revolution and Non-Existent 'War on Men'

5 States Where GOP Extremists Are Pushing Repugnant Anti-Women Laws

Gender

Should Women Have the Right to Go Topless in Public? An Interview With NYC's Topless Activist

Shiuan Butler / AlterNet

'We're Here, We're Queer, and We're Not Going Shopping!' Protesters Call Out Corporate Sponsorship at Pride Parade

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Eating Disorders Aren't Just for the Young: Anorexia Killed My Grandmother

Claire Glass / xojane

How About This for Supporting the Troops: Help Our 55,000 Female Homeless Veterans

Jin Zhao / AlterNet

Not Even God Can Stop Teens from Having Sex: Do Evangelicals Finally Realize This?

Erin Gloria Ryan / Jezebel

Imagine Never Having to Have Your Period Again? The Truth About Menstruation

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

Combatting Anti-Gay Bullying Through Young Adult Fiction

Eleanor J. Bader / AlterNet

What Happens When You Can't Afford Your Children?

Naomi Cahn, June Carbone / AlterNet

A Closer Look at Louis CK's Shocking Rape Scene

Claire Lobenfeld / AlterNet

Fifty Shades of Capitalism: Pain and Bondage in the American Workplace

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

What About the Men? Why Our Gender System Sucks for Men, Too

Noah Brand, Ozy Frantz / The Good Men Project

Will Mitt Romney Choose a Woman for a Running Mate?

Lizz Winstead / Comment Is Free

3 Cases of Crass Sexual Exploitation by Misogynist Internet Manipulators

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd / AlterNet

The 3 Parent Family -- Conservatives Freak Out Over a Different Model for Healthy, Happy Kids

Tracy Clark-Flory / Salon

How Do We Get More Women Into The Sciences?

Michael Keller / Txchnologist

Let's Declare Independence From Religious Health-Care Restrictions

Frances Kissling / Religion Dispatches

Salvation Army Learns What Oreo Cookies Already Knows: Americans Like Groups That Support Gay Rights

Lauren Kelley / AlterNet

War No More: What Afghan Women Are Yelling to the Global Elite

Lisa Savage / AlterNet

Stop Calling it a Sex Scandal

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

Exposing "The Invisible War" on Women in the Military

Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon

The 7 Most Anti-Gay Congressmembers

Josh Israel, Adam Peck / ThinkProgress

Family Meltdown: Why the Nuclear Family Is Not the Model for Women Leaders' Success

Cynthia Liu / AlterNet

Why Are Women Mostly on the Sidelines for Political Fundraising Battles?

Amy Schiller / AlterNet

Finally, Some Subversive Action Princesses in New Films: "Snow White" and "Brave"

Jaclyn Friedman / Comment Is Free

Ripped Off by Smugglers, Groped by Border Patrol: The Nightmares Women Migrants Face

Erika L. Sanchez / AlterNet

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