By Ann • 16 years ago

Weekly Feminist Reader

A new survey shows working women are deeply divided about the value of maternal employment. Judith Stadtman Tucker explains what’s going on behind the research.
Didn’t get sex ed in school? At least you can get it in SecondLife.
The Nation takes down Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild.
A Kurdish woman’s father and brother are found guilty of “honor killing.”
Latest Carnival of Feminists!
Dr. Drew hearts the IWF.
The case for a “women’s page” in the newspaper.
A virtual tour of feminist art in DC.
Why can’t people shut up about Hillary Clinton’s clothes?
NPR on problems facing female military vets.
How the new movie I Now Pronounce You ...

A new survey shows working women are deeply divided about the value of maternal employment. Judith Stadtman Tucker explains what’s going on behind the research.
Didn’t get sex ed in school? At least you can

By celina • 16 years ago

Nicole Nelson: Soul & Muse


Singer and songwriter Nicole Nelson recently returned to New York City after a long run in Boston, MA where I first saw her perform. Her voice and music are often compared to the artistry of Eva Cassidy, Donny Hathaway, Gladys Knight and Erykah Badu; and her style and poise are often compared to those of female greats well beyond her years.
I thankfully caught up with Nicole over email amidst her hectic schedule. Here’s Nicole…


Singer and songwriter Nicole Nelson recently returned to New York City after a long run in Boston, MA where I first saw her perform. Her voice and music are often compared to the artistry ...
By Ann • 16 years ago

Careful, or you’ll regret not reproducing.

For once, I’m not talking about the anti-choice movement. American Sexuality magazine has a piece describing one young woman’s travails in finding a doctor willing to perform a tubal ligation on her. She’s in her early 20s, and absolutely, positively, 100% certain she never wants children. Never.
Seems perfectly logical to me that she’d want her tubes tied. After all, birth control is expensive. And can be a nuisance. If you know you won’t want kids, why wait another 10 years to have this surgery? Maybe because doctors are refusing to perform it on her:

“[Planned Parenthood of Boston**] said it was much too permanent and weren’t going to give it to me, plus my insurance wasn’t going to cover ...

For once, I’m not talking about the anti-choice movement. American Sexuality magazine has a piece describing one young woman’s travails in finding a doctor willing to perform a tubal ligation on her. She’s in her early ...
By Jessica • 16 years ago

CNN’s Larry Smith: Dog fighting a worse crime than rape

You’re going to love this. In a Nancy Grace segment last night about Atlanta Falcons’ Michael Vick and his recent arrest for running a dogfighting ring, CNN sports anchor Larry Smith said that Vick’s crimes were worse than rape. Yeah.
The below transcript followed a short clip of Kobe Bryant proclaiming his innocence, which Grace used to make a point about how Vick should speak up in the media:

SMITH: Yes, well, that’s — he’s been in a lot of trouble lately, when you think about all the other incidents, and this is just the worst one of all. Keep in mind, too, that while Kobe Bryant is a situation we can sort of ...

You’re going to love this. In a Nancy Grace segment last night about Atlanta Falcons’ Michael Vick and his recent arrest for running a dogfighting ring, CNN sports anchor Larry Smith said ...
By jen • 16 years ago

She Should Run – Maybe you should run!

Hopefully you’ve already heard of She Should Run. It’s a project of the Woman’s Campaign Forum, trying to gather nominations for 1,000 pro-choice women to ask to run for political office. There was a dust-up a few weeks ago about why more women didn’t get elected in 2006. She Should Run says that’s the wrong question. More women need to run for office. Because the more of us there are on ballots, the more likely we are to be able to overcome the sexism that female candidates face, and get into office. Gender-based attack ads and questions about being “taken seriously” are hard to deal with. That’s why we need tough women to try.
So, I took ...

Hopefully you’ve already heard of She Should Run. It’s a project of the Woman’s Campaign Forum, trying to gather nominations for 1,000 pro-choice women to ask to run for political office. There was a dust-up a ...

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