Women's Issues

5 Ways The To Do List Is a Radically Feminist Film

A Guide to Decoding Its Girl-Power Clues

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

Cartoonists duke it out in a new anthology

Ladies' Choice

Cinekink presents a day of feminist porn

Q&A: Danielle Henderson, Author of Feminist Ryan Gosling : Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude

Despite launching a website featuring Ryan Gosling that became an overnight hit, and recently publishing a book filled with Gosling's broodingly sexy photos, Danielle Henderson is not a Ryan Gosling fan-girl. The New York native is actually a graduate student in women and gender studies at the Unive ... More >>

HEY, RYAN GOSLING

From a joke, to a meme, to a book

Women Have Finally Discovered Booze

​Back in the old days, before gender equality and such things, women who drank excessively were considered untoward, ill sots, the kind you wouldn't bring home to your mother, who only had a small sip of sherry when feeling poorly and then spat it out immediately. But today, the world has embr ... More >>

Q&A: Amy Klein, a/k/a Amy Andronicus, On Her Many Side Projects, And Why "Feminism" Is A Dirty Word

"I think empowerment is very sexy and cool, and there's no reason you can't believe that." ​Amy Klein is a busy woman. Her most high-profile gig is playing guitar for Thomas-Paine-for-the-Twitter-Generation art-punks Titus Andronicus, but she makes a diverse plethora of music on her own. Her ... More >>

Today Is Feminist Coming Out Day 2011

​In the midst of what seems to be America's war on women, a student-run group from Harvard University has organized a campaign they've dubbed "Feminist Coming Out Day." Today marks the second anniversary of the event, which, the website explains, "recognizes that mainstream feminism has not al ... More >>

Casualties of the Sex War: A Women's Lib Dropout

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 6, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 14 Casualties of the sex war By Karen Durbin Over the past six months or so, something peculiar happened to me and to many of my friends and acquaintances. Most of us might be described as having one foot ... More >>

Feminists and Prostitutes Gather, Fists Fly

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. December 16, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 50 Sisterhood & prostitution By Robin Reisig Last weekend feminists met with the prostitutes they had always said were their sisters, the women who were the symbol of what the women's movement was about ... More >>

Germaine Greer: Liberal, not Liberated

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. June 3, 1971, Vol. XVI, No. 22 Germaine Greer is a liberal woman By Minda Bikman Last August 26, after 50,000 women marched down Fifth Avenue, a panel of feminists gathered in the studios of Channel 13 for a televised discussion on the ... More >>

The Week We Talked About Sarah Palin's Tits

Heidi Montag has appeared on the reality show The Hills and performed some dance music. She is best known, though, for her various plastic surgeries, including spectacular breast implants, which she has craftily used to retain media attention. Montag's lifts and load-ins have been covered in natio ... More >>

"BLAZE THE FUCK PAST US": Jessica Hopper On The Lily Allen/Courtney Love War, a/k/a "The Blinded Nostalgia Trope Of The Aging Rock 'n' Roll Feminist"

Still a good song though right Pretty inspired mini-manifesto here about old-guard female rockers (looking at you, too, Cherie Currie) sassing the new, innovative, vastly underrated wave of female rockers, just because we're all too nostalgic for Liz Phair or L7 or whatever. Thesis in one line: "L ... More >>

FEMINIST AT 40

This party is Precious

A WOMAN'S WORK

Two exhibits focus on powerful women of the 1970s

Second-Wave Feminists Define an Era in The Heretics

Another Love TKO: Teens Grapple with Rihanna vs. Chris Brown

An unsettling conversation, to oft-disturbing and potentially lasting effect

P.S. 1 Hosts 'Wack!—Real Women Have Oeuvres

A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

The Case for Plan B

Fighting for Plan B

Do Men Take a Hit on V-Day?

Women and Badness

Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

Sex and the Pity: Dowd can't make up her mind, while Levy takes on pornification

Lust Horizons

The 'Voice' and the women's movement

Listings

Affordable health care and services for women

'No Women in Combat'? Tell It to the Kids

Letters

Get Back, Loretta

Bush's rollback of women's rights

A Crime of Compassion

Activists Break the Law in Support of the Morning-After Pill

Over the Hillary

Feminists Find It Hard to Stand By Their Woman

Stealth Misogyny

Bush's War on Women

NYC's Forsaken Future

An Alarming Report on the State of New York's Women of Color

Rage Before Race

How Feminists Faltered on the Central Park Jogger Case

Spaceballs

Hormonal Outrage

The Menopause Industry's Marginalized Critics Are Finally Proven Right

A Place at the Table

Afghan Women Debate Their Future

What Women Want

Feminists Agonize Over War in Afghanistan

No Rx Required

The Fight to Make Morning-After Pills Available Over the Counter

Limit Access, Stack the Court

The Right-Wing Map to Outlawing Abortion

Clit Club

V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden

Who Stole Feminism?

RU Pissed Off Yet?

After 10 Long Years, American Women May Finally Get the Abortion Pill—With Restrictions that Could Obliterate All It Has to Offer

Twice Soaked

For Women of Central Park, Official Outcry Obscures Unmentionables

Beating the Backlash

A U.S. Negotiator Details the Fight to Expand Feminist Gains at the UN’s Special Session on Women

Worldwide Women

Beijing+5 Looks at the Global State of Women’s Rights

The Brainy Bunch

Hostile Witness

Letters of Intent

bell's Lettres

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