Colleen Dealy, Taylor Baldwin, Huffington Post. May 16, 2008. A survey reveals that a majority of married moms are not sexually satisfied in their marriages. Many are making up for it on the side.
Lindsay Beyerstein, Majikthise AlterNet: PEEK. May 12, 2008. Washington University honored conservative operative Phylis Schlafly with a degree at their 2008 commencement.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: MediaCulture. May 7, 2008. How the media's use of the passive voice skews coverage of violence against women.
Lucinda Marshall, Feminist Peace Network AlterNet: MediaCulture. May 6, 2008. Once again women didn't make the cut in Time Magazine's list of the most influential leaders.
Lisa Gabriele, Nerve.com. May 1, 2008. For an institution associated with a 50 percent failure rate and bad sex, marriage still has surprisingly many takers -- not me.
Jenny Block, Huffington Post. April 4, 2008. Young women are still told that their worth hinges on guarding what's between their legs. It's time for all women to own their sexuality.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: PEEK. April 2, 2008. It's not ok to ignore feminist theory or throw women under the bus in order to promote animal welfare.
Claudine Zap, Huffington Post AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. April 2, 2008. Women never burned their bras. To understand how this happened, we need to go back to 1968, Atlantic City. To the Miss America Pageant.
Ali Frick, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. April 1, 2008. The absence of rigorous prosecution perpetuates a culture tolerant of sexual assault — an attitude that says "boys will be boys."
Russell Wellen, AlterNet AlterNet: Sex and Relationships. March 22, 2008. Sarah Jessica Parker challenges Maxim magazine's offensive ranking of her as the "Unsexiest" Woman Alive.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: PEEK. March 17, 2008. Brett Favre teared up at his retirement press conference, Laura Ingraham decided this was a good opportunity to call Favre a woman.
Satyam Khanna, Think Progress AlterNet: War on Iraq. March 15, 2008. Reports of sexual assault reports had jumped by about 24 percent in 2006 and nearly 40 percent in 2005.
Jill Filipovic, Feministe AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 14, 2008. I'm not sure that we want to turn reproduction into a service industry.
Vicki Haddock, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. March 13, 2008. Women can dream bigger than ever before. But social progress has plateaued short of true gender equity, keeping many of those dreams out of reach.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. March 12, 2008. I’m not suggesting that the cheated-upon wives should leave their husbands—but this politically calculated cliché needs to be abandoned.
Danna Harman, Christian Science Monitor. March 10, 2008. Not willing to let men or Westerners speak for them, Middle Eastern female filmmakers get behind the camera.
Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Video. March 6, 2008. One should never underestimate the lengths to which wingnuts will go to control female sexuality.