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Items in this update:
o Rapist's parents to go on trial
o Prisons push ban on nudie magazines
o DNA, new abortion litmus test?
o The sad, perilous lives of Afghan women
o Few private doctors offer controversial RU-486
o Woman's rights activist witnesses Afghan violence
o Seizing the cars of 'johns'
o Ovary implanted in arm? A joke?
o Anti-abortion escapee vows to kill
o A different view of women under Taliban
o Women, the Taliban's bravest opponents
o Questioning identity politics
o Men are stupid
o Mommy liberty packs a gun
o Pro-anorexia sites are part of PC backlash
o Artist fights for women left out of the Torah
o Strip City -- book review
o Women likely to suffer most from war
o A Muslim Pakistani woman speaks
o Support Bill Maher
o National Coalition against Domestic Violence
o An introduction to individualist feminism
o Negar -- created by Afghan and French women
o First 24-hr help line for men
o Eight steps toward solving child custody problems
Hello ifeminists:
Calling all aspiring columnists! It's time for The Charlotte
Observer's seventh annual Columnist Search for a writer to provide monthly
editorials. <http://www.charlotte.com/observer/opinion/0909colsearch.htm>
Thanks to Linda Rader for forwarding this heads-up. And, please, if any of
you are successful in applying for a column, let us know so that we can
feature your work on a monthly basis.
I have received a request for an ifeminist presence, as follows...."I
am a producer for counterSpin, a national debate show on CBC Newsworld. I am
looking for intelligent and informed participants in our studio audience for
our show tonight, Wednesday, October 3rd in downtown Toronto." The show will
be live, at the CBC building in Toronto at 25 John St. (corner Front) on
Wednesday, October 3rd. Audience members need to pre-register. If you are
able to contribute to the show by your presence, contact Leslie Stojsic,
Audience Producer, at (416) 646-5211.
I am still writing columns on war, not feminism, for FOX News (even
though the column runs under the title "the ifeminist") and I am posting
separate weekly pieces on the ifeminists.com site which address feminist
issues directly. I make the separation consciously because each member's
stand on the War is a matter of her or his own conscience and I do not
introduce it as a litmus test.
The wisest words I know..."If you want peace, work for justice."
Now...onto the main event.
-- Wendy McElroy, mac@ifeminists.com
==> News Reports <==
Rapist's parents to go on trial
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"The parents of a convicted rapist will go to trial on
charges that they helped keep their son's criminal past
a secret." (09/24/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/493154351.html
Prisons push ban on nudie magazines
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"Hardcore pornography is already banned in state prisons.
Now corrections officials want to extend that ban to
almost any publication featuring nudity, including ...
magazines such as Playboy." Officals offer the typical
feminist argument that porn desensitizes men. Meanwhile
prisons are under attack for not stopping gay rape.
(09/24/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/947271744.html
DNA, new abortion litmus test?
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DNA paternity testing has become a popular technology in
Moscow, where it is used to determine whether to keep a
child, who should retain custody, whether a Visa should
be issues...among other questions. (10/01/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/480326170.html
The sad, perilous lives of Afghan women
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In Afghanistan, educated, once-professional women remain
sealed behind closed doors, stripped of their rights by
the Taliban regime. (10/01/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/442846325.html
Few private doctors offer controversial RU-486
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"A survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation
concludes only 6 percent of gynecologists have offered
RU-486 to patients." 40 percent of the doctors surveyed
did not offer the pill because they opposed abortion.
(09/27/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/45849708.html
Woman's rights activist witnesses Afghan violence
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"In early September, the [feminist] activist, Barbara Bick,
was in northern Afghanistan to observe women's progress
in the region controlled by anti-Taliban forces."
Instead, she was in the area when an anti-Taliban leader
and (she claims) a man dedicated to women's rights were
killed in an attack. (09/27/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/32118777.html
Seizing the cars of 'johns'
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Officials in a Michigan couty are readying a plan to seize
-- and possibly keep -- the vehicles of men arrested for
soliciting prostitutes. Officials call the plan for
civil forfeiture "innovative." It would also be
lucrative. (09/24/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/158853483.html
Ovary implanted in arm? A joke?
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A former cancer patient has made medical history by having
a fully functioning ovary implanted in her arm. Or
that's the report.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/715906404.html
Anti-abortion escapee vows to kill
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"Clayton Lee Waagner vows to kill as many Americans as
possible connected with abortions -- doctors,
bookkeepers -- it makes no difference. The
self-described terrorist claims his mission is God's
will." (09/28/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/936551031.html
For more News Reports see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/news/
==> Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews <==
A different view of women under Taliban
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by Patricia Pearson
A more complex view of women under Taliban and their
resistance to it. (09/27/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/955360304.html
Women, the Taliban's bravest opponents
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by Janelle Brown
An excellent account of the life of women under the Taliban
through an analysis of the documentary "Behind the Veil"
and an interview with Fatima, a representative of the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
(10/02/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/83294346.html
Questioning identity politics
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by Wendy Kaminer
As she often does, the iconoclastic liberal Kaminer
provides insightful analysis of a social phenomenon. This
time it is "identity politics": "even if the collective
political preferences of racial minorities, women, or
gay people could be discerned, the preferences of
particular individuals are unpredictable." (10/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/535452233.html
Men are stupid
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by Will Lee
An unexpected source argues that women are smarter than
men, based upon current educational stats. Researchers
such as Christina Hoff Sommers and Judith Kleinfeld have
argued persuasively that gender bias favoring women in
education is responsible. (11/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/622822731.html
Mommy liberty packs a gun
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by Eliza Gauger
A 17-year old high school student's drawing of Mommy
Liberty spread across the Internet in the wake of the
September 11 attacks on the U.S. Hopefully it will strengthen a
woman's right to own a gun in self-defense rather than
strengthening militarism. (09/26/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/243551284.html
Pro-anorexia sites are part of PC backlash
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by Sekai Mutunhu
Sites "promoting" anorexia are causing consternation among
feminists and experts who liken them to pornography.
What they seem to miss is that the sites are a rebellion
against the imposition of political correctness on
women's bodies. (09/24/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/166484284.html
Artist fights for women left out of the Torah
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by Michael Paulson
Helene Aylon -- raised in the Orthodox Jewish tradition,
which she loves -- is taking every page of the Torah,
and noting where women are excluded or slighted. Then,
she is turning her reactions into art. (09/21/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/154003254.html
Strip City -- book review
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by Darcey Steinke, reviewer
In a complex, gritty, and insightful review of the novel
"Strip City" by Lila Burana, Steinke writes, "Women have
just as many motives for stripping as they do for
becoming lawyers." (09/26/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/532694301.html
Women likely to suffer most from war
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by Justin Burke
Religious revival has not been kind to women and military
action is likely to hurt women most. (09/30/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/937931992.html
A Muslim Pakistani woman speaks
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by Asra Q. Nomani
A Muslim Pakistani woman, raised in America, speaks of her
life experience and her family. (09/30/01)
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/964760779.html
For more Commentary, Opinion, and Book Reviews see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/commentary/
==> Action Opportunities <==
Support Bill Maher
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November 30, 2001
Bill's Maher's show "Politically Incorrect" may be
cancelled due to "anti-American" remarks he allegedly
made during a broadcast. Sign the petition to protest
the possibility and any comments you make will be sent
to appropriate executives; then, if you have a TV show,
it can be cancelled too.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/291971896.html
For more Action Opportunities see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/actions/
==> Online Resource Directories <==
National Coalition against Domestic Violence
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Domestic Violence Awareness Month -- October -- evolved
from the first Day of Unity observed in October, 1981 by
the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. The
NCADV is a springboard for more information but slights
male victims of violence.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/491476933.html
For more Online Resource Directories see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/homepages/
==> Introductions and FAQs <==
An introduction to individualist feminism
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by Wendy McElroy
A basic introduction to ifeminism that distinguishes the
tradition from the contemporary mainstream.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/34988943.html
For more Introductions and FAQs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/brief/
==> Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs <==
Negar -- created by Afghan and French women
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"Negar is a relay for the female Afghan associations which
have been broken up by the Taliban militia and whose
members have been remaining secretly active, so as to
put them in contact with the Afghan diaspora and to
support their actions.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/38749215.html
For more Institutes, Organizations, and Clubs see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/organizations/
==> Games, Surveys, and Tools <==
First 24-hr help line for men
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Australia has announced what it calls the "world's first"
24-hour family-related help line specifically for men.
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/86744448.html
Eight steps toward solving child custody problems
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For example, "Start by making child custody a 'revenue
neutral' privilege....Determine the pure extra cost to
raise the child(ren), split it equitably between the
parties and get rid of those ridiculous state
'guidelines!'"
URL: http://www.free-market.net/rd/94254610.html
For more Games, Surveys, and Tools see:
http://www.ifeminists.com/information/directorybycategory/games/
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