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Women's Issues

  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    The New Misandry: Man-Hating in 1972

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 12, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 41 The new misandry by Joanna Russ Gee, isn't it awful for women to hate men? Of course lots of men despise women, but that's different; woman-hating isn't serious -- at worst it's eccentric, at best s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 10, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 19, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    "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 >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    FEMINIST AT 40

    This party is Precious

  • Voice Choices

    January 26, 2010

    A WOMAN'S WORK

    Two exhibits focus on powerful women of the 1970s

  • Film

    October 6, 2009

    Second-Wave Feminists Define an Era in The Heretics

    Two exhibits focus on powerful women of the 1970s

  • Music

    April 1, 2009

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

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

  • Art

    February 26, 2008

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

    A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2006

    Ellen Willis, 1941-2006

    A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2006

    The Case for Plan B

    A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

  • NYC Life

    June 13, 2006

    Fighting for Plan B

    A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2006

    Do Men Take a Hit on V-Day?

    A vast, retrospective look at the roots of feminist art

  • Art

    January 3, 2006

    Women and Badness

    Phyllis Chesler: prominent second-wave feminist—and neocon

  • Books

    November 8, 2005

    Girls Just Want to Have Fun

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

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    A New Kind of Abortion War

    Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Lust Horizons

    The 'Voice' and the women's movement

  • People

    October 11, 2005

    Listings

    Affordable health care and services for women

  • News

    January 4, 2005

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

    Affordable health care and services for women

  • Specials

    December 14, 2004

    Letters

    Affordable health care and services for women

  • Art

    July 27, 2004

    Hardcore Curriculum

    Film-theory students focus on porn and other fringe fare. But can they get a job?

  • News

    April 20, 2004

    Get Back, Loretta

    Bush's rollback of women's rights

  • News

    February 10, 2004

    A Crime of Compassion

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

  • News

    June 17, 2003

    Over the Hillary

    Feminists Find It Hard to Stand By Their Woman

  • News

    March 4, 2003

    Stealth Misogyny

    Bush's War on Women

  • News

    February 18, 2003

    NYC's Forsaken Future

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

  • News

    October 15, 2002

    Rage Before Race

    How Feminists Faltered on the Central Park Jogger Case

  • Books

    July 16, 2002

    Spaceballs

    How Feminists Faltered on the Central Park Jogger Case

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    Hormonal Outrage

    The Menopause Industry's Marginalized Critics Are Finally Proven Right

  • News

    December 25, 2001

    A New Kind of Abortion War

    Stealth Pro-Life Campaign Erodes Reproductive Rights

  • News

    December 4, 2001

    A Place at the Table

    Afghan Women Debate Their Future

  • News

    October 30, 2001

    What Women Want

    Feminists Agonize Over War in Afghanistan

  • News

    April 3, 2001

    No Rx Required

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

  • News

    March 6, 2001

    Limit Access, Stack the Court

    The Right-Wing Map to Outlawing Abortion

  • News

    February 13, 2001

    Clit Club

    V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden

  • Books

    October 10, 2000

    Who Stole Feminism?

    V-Day’s Charismatic Cuntism Rocks the Garden

  • News

    August 29, 2000

    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

  • News

    June 20, 2000

    Twice Soaked

    For Women of Central Park, Official Outcry Obscures Unmentionables

  • News

    June 13, 2000

    Beating the Backlash

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

  • News

    May 30, 2000

    Worldwide Women

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

  • Books

    January 4, 2000

    The Brainy Bunch

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

  • Books

    June 22, 1999

    Hostile Witness

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

  • Books

    March 23, 1999

    Letters of Intent

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

  • Books

    February 2, 1999

    bell's Lettres

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

  • Music

    November 18, 1997

    Of Course

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

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