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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” brings second-wave feminism dramatically back to life without any false sainthood. It links all of us together and intimates that it’s time for us third- and fourth-wave feminists to take to the streets, too.
We declare that the bodies of our brown and black girls and women are not just collateral damage in places such as Ferguson, Mo. And we demand more from the recent White House report on women and girls of color, which is still no match for the My Brother’s Keeper initiative.
Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election will certainly be scrutinized to determine if his policies impacting women–from closing Planned Parenthood clinics to repealing the state’s pay equity law–are a harbinger of national social change.
Muslim women’s rights activists say Islam and feminism are often viewed as an impossible combination in western countries. “Muslim feminists are denied existence here,” says one woman.
She thought she would be taking care of orphans in Aleppo, says her brother, referring to one of the most war-damaged cities in Syria. “Now, she watches children of fighters.” In the past month, a network of jihadist recruiters have been exposed in Turkey and France.
For these urban transplants, the symbolic candidate Selahattin Demirtas is best. But Erdogan is also courting them with the possibility of a ceasefire and peace.
The heckling of an unmarried female assemblywoman in Tokyo highlights a work-life imbalance problem that is tied to delayed motherhood.
The prime minister’s statements against abortion and in favor of large families have something like the power of unwritten law. That’s why some women have joined the anti-government protests and others follow his pronouncements with worry.
New York lawmakers just blocked Gov. Cuomo’s efforts to make the state a beacon of women’s equality. But they did agree to recognize the historic importance of the suffrage wagon, which started rolling 100 years ago today.
That’s because he didn’t face any. In this interview, Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi explains how Iranian women keep registering as presidential candidates to protest the Guardian Council’s decision to disqualify women for not meeting its definition of “rejal.”