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Category: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality
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Patricia Harman looks at the personal costs of political battles over women’s health.
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A new book argues that “love and passion are not defined by biology.”
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What about abortion gives it staying power as the central issue in domestic politics, even in the period of the worst economic situation since the Great Depression of the 1930s?
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The Obama administration overruled the FDA’s recommendation to make Plan B an over-the-counter for teenagers. Carole Joffe looks at how this decision echoes earlier restrictions.
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In See Me Naked, Amy Frykholm explores the complex, intimate intersection of sexuality and spirituality as it affects the lives of ordinary Christians.
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The number of women in prison has grown 832% in the past few decades, and society tends to demonize girls in the system as irredeemable.
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There is another 99 percent group in our country, distinct from but inextricably entwined with the now more familiar 99 percent evoked by Occupy Wall Street.
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The history of this day dates back to 1998, when Rita Hester was brutally murdered in her home, and her friend, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, launched the Remembering Our Dead web project.
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Transgender Day of Remembrance is November 20th.
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Carole Joffe looks at how one target of anti-choice bullying used his opponents’ tactics to strike back.
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