The W Effect: Bush's War on WomenLaura Flanders Feminist Press at CUNY, 2004 - 294 pages In this unique and essential collection, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd, Maria Hinojosa, and a host of other frontline thinkers, journalists, and activists employ wit, outrage, and cold, hard facts to expose the "W Effect,"a comprehensive incursion into women's rights. In recent years, women around the globe have come under attack-both literally, in the case of war and punitive repression, and more subtly, in the case of eroded rights and economic power. Yet this dangerous trend has not, to date, been comprehensively documented and deconstructed-in part because women are finding it harder to gain access to the mainstream media. Both a harsh reality check and a hopeful starting point for new action, The W Effect brings together the premier feminist voices to provide cutting-edge reports; fresh, empowering analyses; and engaging, provocative ideas for the future-including a resource guide for information and activism. At this pivotal time, The W Effect is a necessary book for feminists of all ages and genders, for all progressive activists, for students, and for anyone interested in current politics and the future of women's rights and women's lives in America and around the world. With reports on: affirmative action, the Patriot Act, welfare "reform," sexual freedom, reproductive rights, the impact of the religious right, education funding and Title IX, public health policy, globalization, international HIV/AIDS policy, the International Court and the U.N., and more. Journalist and broadcaster Laura Flanders was the founder of the Women's Desk at FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting), where, for 10 years, she hosted the syndicated radio program CounterSpin. Flanders currently hosts "Working Assets Radio" and is a contributor to The Nation, The Progressive, Ms. and In These Times. She is the author of Real Majority, Media Minority, The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting and Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species (April 2003). |
Table des matières
Today I Fear My Own Government More Than I Do Terrorists | 3 |
Who Needs the Christian Coalition When Youve Got the White House? The Religious Rights Covert Crusade | 5 |
Fuhgedaboutit | 11 |
Dont Gut Title IX Until You Know What It Does | 15 |
Orphaned by the Drug War | 19 |
Better Safe? | 24 |
WAR | 27 |
An Interview with Masuda Sultan | 29 |
Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers | 152 |
Social Security Is a Womens Issue | 156 |
Womens Priorities Would Be Sacrificed to Pay for Bush Tax Cuts | 158 |
Latina Girls High School DropOut Rate Highest in US | 165 |
Is the Religious Right Compromising Your Health Care? | 167 |
WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS | 173 |
Why the President Had to Show His Balls | 175 |
The US Medias Hug and Run Affair with Afghan Women | 177 |
A Young Man Contemplates Going to War | 36 |
The Militarization of usCulture | 38 |
WorkingClass Women as War Heroes | 39 |
Reading Tracing and Locating Gender in 911 Detentions | 41 |
Upstanding Native Women | 45 |
An Epidemic of Domestic Violence When Troops Return from War | 47 |
A Cautionary Tale from Kosovar Women to Women in PostWar Iraq | 54 |
Girl Blog from Iraq | 56 |
WEDDINGS WOMBS AND WHOOPEE | 63 |
Roe in Rough Waters | 65 |
Wedding Bells and Welfare Bucks | 70 |
Women on Welfare Talk About Marriage | 78 |
My LateTerm Abortion | 81 |
Sex Lies and Abstinence | 85 |
UN Report Documents the Failures to Curb AIDS | 91 |
Teens Talk Back About Abstinence Education | 94 |
Why We Need SameSex Marriage | 96 |
WORLD | 103 |
Economic Globalization Has Become a War Against Nature and the Poor | 105 |
An Interview with Rhonda Perry | 111 |
The Price of Silence | 114 |
Conservative Christians and the Bush Administration Are Aggressively Pushing a Controversial ProFamily Agenda on the International StageAnd Th... | 121 |
The Unequal AIDS Burden | 128 |
WAGES AND WELLBEING | 131 |
and the Poor Get Poorer | 133 |
An Interview with Ellen Bravo | 138 |
WalMart Values | 145 |
The Thong vs the Veil | 180 |
On Rescuing Private Lynch and Forgetting Rachel Corrie | 182 |
Celebrating the Many Roles of Women | 185 |
Unsung Heroes | 187 |
The Truth About Women and the Recession | 189 |
They Are Everywhere but We Refuse to See Them | 193 |
Whatever Happened to the Gender Gap? | 198 |
WOMEN TAKE ACTION | 205 |
Four 911 Moms Battle Bush | 207 |
Against the War but Married to It | 214 |
Arab Women Staying Alive | 220 |
Women of the Promised Land | 223 |
Security Council Resolution 1325 in Afghanistan | 229 |
Liberals with Backbone | 235 |
On the Road With a Welfare Warrior | 240 |
Mighty in Pink | 244 |
WHATS ON THE HORIZON | 251 |
Whose Security? | 253 |
No Place for a Woman | 258 |
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War | 263 |
A Mystery of Misogyny | 268 |
Will Sex Ever Make Us as Smart as Race When It Comes Time to Vote? | 271 |
An Interview with Dorothy Roberts | 273 |
Claiming Independence Asserting Personal Choice | 280 |
War on Terror or War on Women? The View from Latin America | 285 |
CREDITS | 291 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
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