Women v. Trump
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Hostility against women is moving from the basement trolls to the mainstream.
Arts & Culture
Pregnancy ‘Out of the Closet,’ But Now Sexualized
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Images of pregnant women have become eroticized as they have become more mainstream, says Kelly Oliver in this excerpt from “Knock Me Up, Knock Me Down.” Media attention to pregnant celebrities has also created a new cult of motherhood.
Commentary
After Costly Cancer-Gene Testing, Treatments Add Up
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Angelina Jolie’s surgeries to prevent breast cancer are widely known. But how do most women handle the bills for prophylactic mastectomy, hospitalization, reconstructive surgery? Second of two stories on costs of BRCA testing and treatment.
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie Raises Big Question of Coverage
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What if you decide to follow the Hollywood star’s example and get genetic testing for your chances of developing breast cancer? Then you face the questions of whether you’re covered and meet reimbursement criteria. First of two stories.
Abortion
Obama: Soldier Rapes Hurt U.S.; Comfort Women Dissed
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Obama says that the U.S. military’s sexual assaults are “dangerous to our national security.” A mayor says the Japanese military’s “comfort women” were necessary.
Angelina Jolie
Cambodian Wonders ‘What If’ About Angelina Jolie
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Lida moved from a subsistence existence in rural Cambodia to a senior staff job at a women’s advocacy organization in the city. But she still wonders what would have happened if she had said “yes” to a beautiful foreigner at a pagoda three years ago.
Arts & Culture
‘Blood and Honey’ Is Cathartic for Bosniak Actor
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Vanesa Glodjo, a film actor and Bosniak survivor of the war, says having a role in Angelina Jolie’s “In the Land of Blood and Honey” brought catharsis. Now, she writes, war wounds that were too-tightly bandaged by silence have a chance to heal.