Weekly Feminist Reader

How the state can go wrong when it tries to “save” Muslim women.
Courtney warns, “Don’t call it a he-cession.”
Redefining “vagina music” as a positive thing.
Is impregnating a woman against her will a form of intimate-partner violence?
A really moving essay on Michael Jackson.
Did you know Rhode Island’s official name is actually “State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”? There’s now a push to remove the “Province Plantations” part by folks who say it is a reminder of slavery.
The complicated history between women in Iran and women in the West.
The growing backlash against evolutionary psychology.
In Missouri, “a husband who consents to his wife’s insemination with donor semen is the father of the child she conceives” — but that rule apparently does not apply to same-sex couples.
Megan on “the dichotomy between the ways we view women in the developed world and those in the developing world who chose to sell access to their bodies.”
A great post by fillyjonk on women’s bodies as allegories.
The Organization of American States approved a resolution protecting human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity.
An op-ed advocating women adopt the title “Ms.” — published in 1901!
Why LGBTQ and HIV-positive voices need to weigh in on the health care debate.
A studio exec claims “women don’t go to movies.”
“The modern LGBT-rights movement owes its existence to the heroes of Stonewall. And while much has been gained in the intervening decades, a certain crucial something has been lost.”
What have you all been reading/writing this week?