Janice Raymond writes for The Guardian: “Those working against the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children know that ‘tolerance zones’ in countries that have legalized prostitution — which is actually legalization of brothels and pimping –…
Anna Holmes writes for The Washington Post: “Rapid-fire, image-based appraisals of women’s worth — what I call ‘objectify first, ask questions later’ — have become so commonplace that they are less exception than rule. Perhaps even more troubling, the i…
Stephanie Simon reports for Reuters: “Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, will cut off birth-control coverage for its employees in July, a move that has divided faculty members and students on the Cincinnati…
Anna Holmes writes for The New Yorker: “On Tuesday, February 28th, a twenty-nine-year-old Canadian male fan of Suzanne Collins’s dystopian young adult trilogy, ‘The Hunger Games,’ logged onto the popular blogging platform Tumblr for the first time and cr…
Katha Pollitt writes for The Nation: “Katniss is a rare thing in pop fiction: a complex female character with courage, brains and a quest of her own. She’s Jo March as coal miner’s daughter in hunting boots, the opposite of Bella, the famously drippy, lo…
