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  • Yet Another Feminist Friday

    Romney If you think Romney’s economic plan is complicated (I’m looking at you, Herman Cain), just wait until you get to female anatomy. Romney recently emphasized that he would fully support a Constitutional amendment defining conception as the beginning of life. However, the distinction between conception (i.e. sperm meets egg) and implantation (zygote attaches to…

  • Feminist Friday

    Big news out of Saudi Arabia this week: not only has King Abdullah overturned a court ruling sentencing a woman from Jeddah to ten lashes for driving, but Saudi women will soon be allowed to vote. Each of these big announcements should be taken with a grain of salt—Saudi Arabia is still the only nation…

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  • Politics of Prostitution

    Dobrý den, readers! I have returned from my time abroad in Prague and Brussels, chock-full of new insights about gender relations in a post-communist society and stories from sessions of the European Parliament’s Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, ready to lend some feminist flair to WUPR’s online columns. I missed you all. It’s…

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  • Waterworksgate

    As the 112th United States Congress kicks off with a fresh infusion of legislators and a newly-overhauled leadership, one simple fact has failed to escape notice: Boehner cries. A lot. This is not to say that the newly-minted Speaker of the House should show no emotion,  far from it in fact. At the same time,…

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  • A Great Education

    There’s so much more to education than the basic curriculum. Gender socialization occurs in many ways, but perhaps the most profound socialization occurs in school. From the earliest stages, children create their own sets of norms, values, and expectations and, most importantly, enforce them. (For more on gender norms, see my column from a few…

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  • Bringing Women into the Public Sphere

    There are few things better than getting re-inspired about a cause you believe in. Nicholas Kristof’s speech at Washington University last week did exactly that. Kristof, noted New York Times columnist and all-around BAMF (for proof of his BAMF status, read the text of his interview with WUPR here) was promoting his recent book Half…

  • Feminism Today

    Feminism isn’t dead. Though many different groups and the stigma of the word itself have tried to nail its coffin shut for decades, feminism is alive and well. That’s not to say that there aren’t still problems associated with the movement; the fight for gender equality is far from over, both in the U.S. and…

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