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Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Without Women There Is No Democracy

On the hundreth anniversary of suffrage, it’s time for gender equity in political office.

Jennifer M. Piscopo, Shauna L. Shames

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Gender & Sexuality

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

Sex Equality vs. Religion: What Should the Law Do?

A response to Susan Okin, "Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?"

Cass Sunstein

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

The Blues and Black Feminism

Invitations to danger and salvation that makes the blues the blues.

Jonathan Gill

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Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women?

Those of us who consider ourselves politically progressive have been too quick to assume that feminism and multiculturalism are both good things which are easily reconciled.

Susan Moller Okin

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Abortion: Whose Right?

The idea that a fetus has rights cannot be bypassed as nonsense. We have to take the idea seriously.

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

An Intervention

Out of the shadow of a wall 15 feet away a pair of men emerged and blocked the sidewalk. 

George Packer

Gender & Sexuality, Global Justice

A Walk Into Darkness

The repression of Iranian women.

Betty Sosnin

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

Exorcizing Pornography

It would be simpler to burn a few magazines than to explore the economic, social, and psychological factors of which both rape and pornography are symptoms.

Walter Kendrick

Arts in Society, Gender & Sexuality

An Interview With Grace Paley

Writer, teacher, and political activist.

Grace Paley, Gail Pool, Shirley Roses

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