Laura Liswood, Women's Media Center. November 30, 2009. The World Economic Forum reported some major progress in the lives of women and girls in some surprising places.
Eleanor Bader, RH Reality Check AlterNet: Rights and Liberties. November 16, 2009. "Life is not a playground," says Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas in The Kingdom Leadership Institute Manual. "It is a war zone."
Courtney E. Martin, The American Prospect. November 14, 2009. Many young men reject the trappings of traditional, sexist masculinity. But what's the alternative?
Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check. November 12, 2009. It's bad enough the media teaches my daughter harmful gender stereotypes. Does she have to get it at school, too?
Maureen Fiedler, Ms. Magazine. October 27, 2009. The Vatican's secretive investigations of American nuns is seen by many as attempts to intimidate outspoken, liberal nuns into submission.
Courtney Wilder, Minnesota Women's Press. October 14, 2009. Nothing -- especially nothing involving women and their bodies -- can remain politically neutral for long.
W. Scott Poole, Religion Dispatches. October 13, 2009. Has a new horror film about a murderous cheerleader subverted the mythos of woman as the source of evil or just the opposite?
Vanessa Richmond, AlterNet. September 25, 2009. By and large, women do far more housework than men and are better at it. It's creating a dirty situation.
Margaret Thompson, Women's Media Center. August 31, 2009. Women have been front and center in all of the massive peaceful daily marches opposing the regime, and military and police have responded with ever more violent repression.
Helen Boyd, On The Issues Magazine. August 11, 2009. When my husband transitioned, it made me face all of the terrible gender stereotypes I carry around.
Tana Ganeva, AlterNet AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. July 30, 2009. HBO is slated to take on a half-hour comedy starring Diane Keaton as a feminist icon.
Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check. July 13, 2009. We must continue to target the pressure, coercion, and social compulsion that affects how women dress. But we must never attack women themselves.
Barbara Crossette, The Nation. June 24, 2009. The pervasive presence of women in the Iran uprising have been cast into sharp focus by the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan during a street protest.
Lily Quateman, The Frisky AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. June 16, 2009. Porn star Grey, who has achieved success as a mainstream actress, has gotten tons of criticism for working in porn.
Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check. June 4, 2009. Every person who trots out vicious nonsense and misinformation about abortion played a part in the murder Dr. George Tiller.
Sal Renshaw, Ms. Magazine. March 11, 2009. There have been a lot of shout-outs to feminism on the "L Word", albeit not a consistent feminist politics that will please everyone.
Shannon Drury, Minnesota Women's Press. March 3, 2009. Many of the new wave of women stitchers and bakers see kitchen work as part of a lost culture that belonged only to women.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. January 29, 2009. We didn’t win the birth control battle, but the stimulus package is still very good for women.
