A campaign, Lose the Lads’ Mags, has been launched against supermarkets in the U.K. that stock magazines featuring naked women in sexually explicit poses on their covers. Lawsuits are being […]
Author: Natasha Turner
NEWSFLASH: Women’s Health Victory in Indiana
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed without comment an appeal of the Seventh Circuit Court decision to block an Indiana state law that would ban Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funding. […]
10 Historic Challenges That American Women Still Face Today
Our blog post “10 Things That American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s” has prompted amazing responses from Ms. blog readers. Feminists of the 1960s and 1970s worked tirelessly to […]
Rape-splaining: 10 Examples of Victim Blaming
TRIGGER WARNING: discussions of rape, abusive and offensive language. The tragic case in December of 2012 of a 12-year-old girl raped at gunpoint by three teenage boys in Chicago sparked […]
10 Things American Women Could Not Do Before the 1970s
It turns out that before the 1970s, an American woman could not…
NEWSFLASH: Court Strikes Down Arizona Abortion Ban
On Tuesday, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Arizona’s ban on abortion at 20 weeks, calling it unconstitutional because a woman has a legal right to terminate […]