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Beauvoir’s text to a realm of secondary importance. Yet, even if Beauvoir never unequivocally answered the question she posed, she provided the terms of a debate which remains intensely contested. As Beauvoir’s tombstone turns 24, her legacy—whether fully or pseudo feminist??commands our continued attention...
...argued that Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader convinced Friedan and Steinmen to take up their pro-choice cause. Jeremiah D. Braunlin—who recently graduated from the Harvard Extension School—said he thought that Foster’s definition of the word “feminist?? was interesting. “When I think of the word ‘feminist?? I think of Foucault, J.S. Mill, or Katherine McKinnon, not necessarily a pro-life organization, but I think it was a politically cunning move to use that word because it drew together...
Politicos tend to present the abortion debate as an unbridgeable divide: One can either be for the rights of the fetus or for the rights of the woman. In a clever reversal, the self-termed “pro-life feminist?? movement, spearheaded by the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) is attempting to have it both ways. They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women. Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than...
...absolutist pro-fetus stance makes the choice for women, rather than allowing them to choose for themselves. Failing to recognize the central tenet of feminism—that women are the sovereigns over their own bodies and lives—makes the use of the word “feminist?? as pro-women as the “pro-life feminist?? movement gets...
...Muslim women living in the more liberal Indonesia alone). By creating a singular entity of Muslim women, Horowitz allows himself to adopt the voice of the “Muslim woman” and use her oppression for his political aims. The cruel irony that the “feminist?? Horowitz fails to realize is that in protesting the “silence about the oppression of women in Islam,” he himself both silences and oppresses Muslim women, depriving them of agency...