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Infidelity and Feminism: Can Cheating Be A Feminist Choice?

By Mandy Van Deven, RH Reality Check

October 26, 2009 - 9:11am

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In Cheating on the Sisterhood: Infidelity and Feminism, Lauren Rosewarne’s details her own personal struggles as a willing participant in an illicit relationship that resulted in another woman's devastation, as well as her own. It is a political look at the motivations that fuel situations of betrayal and the justifications one provides oneself from the inside.

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Nostalgia for Those Louts: A "Mad Men" Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 12, 2009 - 7:00am

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Astute and unflinching examination of gender politics has proved to be the secret of the rise of "Mad Men" in popular culture. RH Reality Check is hosting a salon on the program.

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Breastfeeding Is a Feminist Issue

By Amie Newman, Managing Editor

August 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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August is National Breastfeeding Awareness Month. It's time to look at the ways in which feminism and breastfeeding are related and how health care reform can address this public health imperative.


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From Bikinis to Burqas, the Feminist Politics of Clothing

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

July 10, 2009 - 7:00am

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How can so many American feminists have come out against a burqa ban in France? The answer is that singling out the burqa as the only article of clothing patriarchal enough to merit legal regulation is racist.

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Our Forgotton Foremother: Matilda Joslyn Gage

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

June 3, 2009 - 1:56pm

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Nearly 150 years after their radical ideas helped to begin the first
wave of feminism, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are still
household names. However Matilda Joslyn Gage, the outspoken journalist
and early advocate for civil rights who worked closely with them on the
day to day operations of the National Woman Suffrage Association, has
largely been left out of the story.


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Geishas and Whores

By Atlasien, Racialicious

May 26, 2009 - 8:00am

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A lot of people, especially white people, are invested in defending geisha, in putting them on a pedestal. And when they do that, it does harm to Japanese-American women and to all Asian-American women.

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Gender Cop Dowd's Plagiarism Kerfluffle

Reader diary posted by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

May 18, 2009 - 11:53am

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This
revelation of Dowd's thoughtless use of words is far from new. She's been
a perennial thorn in the side of feminists and everyone who would like to move beyond Mad Men-era
perceptions of gender.


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On Asia McGowan: Why We Need Feminism in Community Colleges

Reader diary posted by Anna Clark, RH Reality Check

April 15, 2009 - 1:22pm

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Asia McGowan, a 20-year-old student at Henry Ford Community College outside Detroit was murdered on campus by a man who'd stalked her. Why aren't feminist resources for domestic violence and stalking available at community colleges?


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Feminism and the New Great Depression: What's Next?

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

March 19, 2009 - 10:24am

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Looks like feminism’s at a crossroads, and there’s a very surprising group that could hold the key to the future of the movement: men. (So does this mean I should go buy my goldfish a new bike?)


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The Feminist Blame Game

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

March 12, 2009 - 3:25pm

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If the previous generation wants to talk to young feminists, they should stop assuming that we are all members of the “Pole-dancing, walking around half-naked, posting drunk photos on Facebook, and blogging about [our] sex lives” sector, and realize that we’re still working — we’re just doing different things.


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