Holding Up the Entire Sky
September 2, 2011 by Maura Cunningham · Leave a Comment
When Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party took control of the country in 1949, they promised to change everything. Communism would eliminate “feudalism,” a term particularly identified with ...Read More
India’s Hidden Suffering: Women and the Agrarian Crisis
August 5, 2011 by Amy Williams · Leave a Comment
When we talk about the agrarian crisis in India and the quarter of a million farmers who have committed suicide since 1995, we tend to think about the men and the physical act of suicide–swallowing ...Read More
Feudals, Feminists and Foreign Ministers
August 4, 2011 by Rafia Zakaria · Leave a Comment
On July 19, Hina Rabbani Khar was sworn in as Pakistan’s youngest and first-ever woman foreign minister. It seemed like welcome news from a beleaguered country whose name evokes visions of misogyny ...Read More
Join the Fight to Help Burma
July 12, 2011 by Amy Borsuk · Leave a Comment
When the world last heard from Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning human rights activist and feminist hero from Burma (Myanmar), she had been released from a collective 15-year house arrest ...Read More
SlutWalk Delhi Starts “Immodest” Discussion in India
July 6, 2011 by Christie Thompson · 5 Comments
They’ve walked in Toronto, Boston, Los Angeles and Chicago. They’ve marched through London, Amsterdam, Sao Paulo and Stockholm. They’re even organizing in Cape Town. And now, women walking to ...Read More
Bend it Like Beckham–in Cambodia
June 8, 2011 by Jessica Mack · 1 Comment
It was Wednesday and the Mighty Girls had practice again. The late afternoon sun beat down on the field in Battambang, a charming river town of 250,000 that is Cambodia’s second-largest city. A ...Read More
Aung San Suu Kyi Speaks to Feminists
April 29, 2011 by Stephanie Hallett · Leave a Comment
On Tuesday evening, Nobel Peace Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi spoke, via video, to guests at the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Global Women’s Rights Awards. Suu Kyi was given the Eleanor ...Read More
Forget the Tea Cups, Think About the Women
April 22, 2011 by Anushay Hossain · 5 Comments
Just when you thought there could be no more bad PR for the war in Afghanistan, a crippling 60 Minutes investigation about celebrated author and humanitarian Greg Mortenson’s best-selling works, ...Read More
The Effort to End Acid Violence
April 8, 2011 by Shakthi Jothianandan · 4 Comments
“This is a form of gender terrorism,” says Sital Kalantry, director of Cornell Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic. “If we [women] deviate from what’s expected ...Read More
Click! My Grandmother’s Resistance
March 31, 2011 by Srimati Basu · 4 Comments
“How am I going to manage without you?” my maternal grandmother Pata wailed at the viewing of her husband’s recently deceased body. As a precocious and carefully inscrutable 12-year-old, I remember ...Read More
