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Category: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
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Women’s reproductive health advocate Carole Joffe reflects on the recent Hobby Lobby SCOTUS ruling and who, ultimately, pays the price for such setbacks in contraceptive policy.
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After vandals destroyed abortion provider Susan Cahill’s clinic, author and advocate Carole Joffe remember’s Cahill’s incredible contributions to abortion care in the US.
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Historian Erika Janik, author of ‘Marketplace of the Marvelous,’ profiles several women who were pioneers in the field of medicine.
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Deborah Jiang Stein’s memoir ‘Prison Baby’ follows the story of a young girl who discovers she was born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother. Though Stein eventually recovers from her own spiral into depression, addiction, and crime, many incarcerated women and their children are not so lucky.
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Columnist Rafia Zakaria on Malala Yousafzai’s global impact, and what it means for Muslim feminism.
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A new law in Kansas essentially treats abortion providers like sex offenders.
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When anti-abortion groups secretly film in doctors’ offices, what kind of effect will it have on trust between patients and providers?
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Women’s hatred of the way they look didn’t just appear out of thin air. It was implanted in us in a variety of ways, but primarily through advertising.
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The story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks gets a rave New York Times review, and author Jeanne Theoharis appears with another civil rights pioneer on Democracy Now.
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