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Items in this update:
o Social workers not bound by Constitution
o Must women in US military wear veils?
o Illinois prostitutes sound electronic alarm over sex cops
o Pro-lifers lose TV fight
o Alabama to outlaw prostitution
o Minnesota sodomy law struck down
o The United Nations wants your kids
o Rise in arresting and jailing of girls
o A review of 'Love and Economics'
o A guy marooned in women's studies
o Why is polygamy illegal?
o The house that Comstock built
o Who funds feminism?
o Domestic violence against men
o Individualist guide to abortion resources
o Politics of homosexuality
o Petition Yahoo to retain adult content
o Abstracts of new Journal of Ayn Rand Journal
o Gender Issues Research Center
Hello ifeminists:
Brad and I are fresh-returned from the Libertarian Futurist Society
<http://www.lfs.org/> Con that functioned under the umbrella of the larger
SF MarCon in Columbus, Ohio, over the Memorial Day weekend. I met several
ifeminists there, including Chris Baker, and had wonderful chats with
libertarian SF author Fran Van Cleave whose work was featured in Analog
recently. Way to go Fran!
The big news at ifeminists.com is that we are now offering a moderated
e-mail discussion list, entitled "Healing the Breach." It is intended to be
a first step in remedying the misunderstanding and ill-will that radical
feminism has created between the genders. Sign on at
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/ which *should* be active later
today. Please be patient. We're all making this up as we go along.
Meanwhile, the Bulletin Board
<http://www.ifeminists.com/interaction/forum/feminism0105/index.html>
continues to remain both active and civil, without being similarly
restrained. For the shy ... you can always post under a pseudonym,
e.g., anon, or give no name whatsoever. It is simple. When it comes to
the blank slot for entering you name, merely hit the space bar instead and
the program will accept that designation.
The ifeminist editorial for this week is "Battered Husbands"
<http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2001/0529.html>. Like
the moderated e-mail list, it is an attempt to establish a form of feminism
that addresses and takes seriously the many valid concerns of the Men's
Movement. At some point, the bitterness must end.
Now...onto the main event.
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Social workers not bound by Constitution
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"The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled against a
home-school family who said social workers are bound by
the U.S. Constitution. ... The agency had been called by a
neighbor who saw the Stumbo's two-year-old daughter run
out of her family's home without any clothes on while
chasing the family cat." (05/18/01)
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/5/182001d.asp
Must women in US military wear veils?
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Five Republican senators want a review the military's
strict dress code for women based in Saudi Arabia on the
grounds that making women wear a neck-to-toe robe known
as an abaya and a scarf when off base sexually discriminates
and violates their religious liberty. (05/28/01)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washdc/2001-05-29-dresscode.htm
Illinois prostitutes sound electronic alarm over sex cops
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After a DuPage County, Illinois, sex worker recognized an
undercover detective, she spread the alarm via Internet
and wireless communications, minimizing the number of
arrests in a multi-jurisdictional clampdown on the
consensual exchange of sex for money. (05/25/01)
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-0105250357,00.html
Pro-lifers lose TV fight
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"A pro-life political party has lost its High Court legal
challenge against the BBC who refused to transmit its
election broadcast because it did not meet taste and
decency guidelines." (05/24/01)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1349000/1349180.stm
Alabama to outlaw prostitution
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Alabama has no state law against prostitution, which has
made the trade quietly legal outside city limits
throughout much of the state. The legislature is moving
to close that small avenue of freedom. (05/23/01)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,25448,00.html
Minnesota sodomy law struck down
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A judge has ruled that Minnesota's sodomy law illegally
pries into people's private lives -- even when it is not
enforced. (05/21/01)
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/po/20010521/co/minnesota_sodomy_law_struck_down
_1.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
The United Nations wants your kids
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by Brad Edmonds
Documents prepared by the United Nations assert a power to
decide how you will be treated with regard to
everything, including how you interact with your own
children, and with the help of Agenda 21, even whether
you will be allowed to have children. (05/24/01)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/edmonds/edmonds38.html
Rise in arresting and jailing of girls
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by Sabra Ayres
"Experts say there's a pool of anger in violent, delinquent
girls, and their numbers are increasing dramatically."
(05/29/01)
http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/565
A review of 'Love and Economics'
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by Joseph R. Stromberg
"Instead of treating familial and societal relations of
human beings as 'given' -— that is, as background no
more significant than land and other resources -- she
focuses on how and why intact families are an essential
precondition to stable, free societies as well as to
greater human happiness." (05/23/01)
http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=685
A guy marooned in women's studies
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by Eric Adler
Eric Adler, a Ph.D. candidate in classical studies at Duke
University, details his tour through a women's studies
course in which he learns how to nod. (Spring 2001)
http://www.iwf.org/pubs/twq/Spring2001c.shtml
Why is polygamy illegal?
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by Jacob Sullum
The complications of the trial of Utah polygamist Tom Green
distract attention from the central issue of whether the
state ought to be dictating domestic arrangements among
consenting adults. (05/29/01)
http://reason.com/sullum/052901.html
The house that Comstock built
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by Christopher Gray
The former home of the 19th century vice crusader Anthony
Comstock is crumbling. Gray's commentary mixes a report
on its "corruption" with an overview of Comstock's role
in American anti-obscenity crusades. (05/29/01)
http://www.nytoday.com/articles/990121409173.html?nyt_webid=990121409173&nyt
_webasset=NYT_Article&nyt_webtype=News
Who funds feminism?
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by Evan Gahr
Too often, it is taxpayers. "Perhaps the most resilient
feminist boondoggle is the Women's Education Equity Act.
A sop to feminists, WEEA, which was passed in 1974, has
cost the taxpayer about $100 million." (05/24/01)
http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/gahr.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
Domestic violence against men
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This free online site is organized like a book with
chapters that offer advice to male victims of domestic
violence. Although the site focuses upon abuse in
Colorado, most of the information applies to any
location in the US.
http://www.dvmen.org/
Individualist guide to abortion resources
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by Thomas Grams
Gramstad has compiled a resource directory of articles and
documents that "argue the pro-freedom, pro-choice
position from an individualist or autonomy perspective:
the right to (one's own) life."
thomas@gramstad.no
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~thomas/po/abortion-links.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Audio and Video <==
Politics of Homosexuality
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The video/audio of Andrew Sullivan's excellent overview of
the politics of homosexuality, first delivered as a
lecture at Stanford. He calls for a re-evaluation. 90
minutes in length. Real Player. (Scroll down to link.)
http://www.andrewsullivan.com/
For more Audio and Video see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/multi/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Petition Yahoo to retain adult content
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Yahoo made a decision to remove "adult" content because
of negative feedback from 100,000 Yahoo users! If that
many people [and more] sign a petition to request them
to reverse that decision, it may happen. (05/28/01)
http://www.webmastercast.com/yahoo/petition.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Magazines and Periodic Columns <==
Abstracts of new Journal of Ayn Rand Journal
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The Spring 2001 issue of JAR is available, with free online
abstracts. It includes, "A discussion of Ayn Rand's
philosophy of art inspired by Louis Torres and Michelle
Marder Kamhi's 'What Art Is.' This is the first
comprehensive scholarly forum on Rand's aesthetics ever
published. (05/01)
http://aynrandstudies.com/jars/v2_n2/2_2toc.asp
For more Magazines and Periodic Columns see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/magazines/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Gender Issues Research Center
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Non-partisan website on gender issues that includes book
reviews, library, media center, public opinion polls,
statistics and search engine.
girc@gendercenter.org
http://www.gendercenter.org/
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
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