Another step toward military equality

A female Marine goes through an obstacle course, one of the tasks of the combat endurance test. (Photo: H. Darr Beiser, USA TODAY) http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/23/panetta-women-combat-pentagon/1859221/ Less than a week after President...

Roe vs Wade: 40 years on

AP Photos http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2012/08/23/roe-v-wade-to-planned-parenthood-the-history-of-abortion-rights-in-america-photos.html On January 22nd, 1973, the United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision on the issue of abortion. In the case of...

Women and Power in Crisis

Image from http://eyesonpower.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/fairer-sex.html On Saturday October 13th I attended a debate put together by The Fawcett Society on the subject of “Power in Crisis – what would more women bring...

Lisbeth Salander: A new breed of heroine?

Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander Baldur Bragason/Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. The Millennium Trilogy by Stieg Larsson is, without doubt, a publishing phenomenon.  Initially a word-of-mouth success, sales had reached an incredible 65 million by...

Being a Girl in an Anti-Woman Backlash: Organizing and Protesting

In the last few weeks, the anti-woman backlash has gotten newly energized and especially vicious and this re-emergence has become readily apparent on my college campus at Florida State University. Whether it is large-scale anti-choice demonstrations,...

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