by Janet Benshoof American women need legal tools to fight patriarchy. Women outside of the U.S. are pushing for and getting far reaching gender equality guarantees,
by Merle Hoffman We asked leading thinkers to describe New Revolutions We Need for a feminist and progressive future. Here’s one response. Oscar Wilde, writing in The Soul of
by Marion Banzhaf What can feminists expect, or demand, from foundations in the coming years? Foundations lost approximately 30 percent of their assets in 2008, according
by Mary Lou Greenberg Much of women’s lives has to do with terror – living with it, facing it, and most importantly, overcoming it. The
By Melynda H. Barnhart Feminist debates about sex work, prostitution, and sex trafficking raged long before the debate was enshrined in federal law through the
by Angela Bonavoglia In the wake of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s stunning fall from grace in March 2008 for spending some $80,000 on call
by Alexis Greene “You will not fight your battles on my body anymore.” Thus speaks the character of the Congolese prostitute Salima in Lynn Nottage’s
by Ann Jordan Between March and June, scores of women in Cambodia were rounded up and held in detention where they report being robbed, beaten
By Penelope Saunders In late 2004 and early 2005, the Mayor of Washington, D.C. proposed several new laws to augment the city’s already stringent anti-prostitution
By Nicole Witte Solomon In 2004, Rachel Aimee, Rebecca Lynn and Raven Strega hit upon a radical notion. The media sensationalizes sex work — services
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