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Toward an Independence Day for All to Celebrate

By Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich ● Arts & Culture ● July 4, 2001

Black suffrage leader Sojourner Truth was excluded from a statue commemorating women’s suffrage installed in the Capitol Rotunda four years ago. This author argues now is the time to correct this egregious omission.

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New Texas ‘Janes’ Mark Roe v. Wade Anniversary

By Nancy Schaadt ● Arts & Culture ● January 22, 2001

Before there was Jane Roe winning a landmark Supreme Court case, there was Jane, a Chicago-based feminist group that provided abortions for an estimated 12,000 women in the Midwest. The Jane spirit is alive today and well in Texas.

Women Getting Moral Equivalent of Lumps of Coal

By Caryl Rivers ● Arts & Culture ● December 20, 2000

Ho! Ho! Ho! Ladies. Commercialism, our culture and the courts have denied you the gifts that empower. Instead, you get a few drops of testosterone, a frumpy housedress, pregnant chads that deny your vote and a hatpin for protection–you’ll need it.

This Holiday Season, Give What You Are

By David Sadker & Phyllis Lerner ● Arts & Culture ● December 19, 2000

Holidays can be a season for meaningful actions that challenge sexist and other stereotypes, de-emphasize materialism, teach our children and families, open ourselves to diversity and emphasize recycling, helping and sharing.

Thanksgiving Recipe Guaranteed to Make the Day

By Rita Henley Jensen ● Arts & Culture ● November 23, 2000

Women are working working working at paid jobs in this economic boom. And hurray for our economic independence. But, by the way, who is doing the shopping, cooking and cleaning for this holiday? Here are some ingredients to lighten the load.

In Jordan, the Price of Honor Is Women’s Blood

By Jamal J. Halaby ● Arts & Culture ● November 14, 2000

In a desert nation of conservative Bedouin tribes, activists are trying to scrap the time-honored law that gives men light sentences for murdering female relatives for offenses to family honor. The new king opposes these “honor killings.”

Moms Sending Message On This Mother’s Day

By Kristin Choo ● Arts & Culture ● April 21, 2000

The organizers of the Million Mom March are demanding much stronger gun controls than political leaders have suggested so far.