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Three summers ago, as an intern at the Feminist Majority Foundation, I cut out little squares of blue mesh fabric, the same fabric that formed the peepholes through which Afghani women wearing a burqa saw the world. I distributed these cloth emblems to Americans, to wear as tokens of remembrance for and solidarity with the women oppressed by the Taliban...
...LITTLE BIT NUTTY, AND A LITTLE BIT SLUTTY: In March, Scribner will publish "Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of Promiscuity" by Emily White. Says her publisher, "With a feminist voice as bold as Susan Faludi's or Naomi Wolf's, White explores the timeless phenomenon of the archetypal high school slut and the culture that creates...
...Washington two weeks ago, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and the President's Special Counselor, Karen Hughes, met with Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, and Mavis Leno, who has long worked to bring attention to the problems of Afghan women. "We asked the Administration to make returning women to equal status under the law a nonnegotiable issue in forming any new government," says Leno, wife of Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "That's pretty much the language Colin Powell used when he spoke at the State Department [last week], so it appears the government is going...
...Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was the custom to bury alive unwanted female newborns; Islam prohibited the practice. Women had been treated as possessions of their husbands; Islamic law made the education of girls a sacred duty and gave women the right to own and inherit property. Muhammad even decreed that sexual satisfaction was a woman's entitlement. He was a liberal at home as well as in the pulpit. The Prophet darned...
...RAWA] have evolved as a political humanitarian, peaceful, anti-fundamentalist, feminist organization,” Tameenah said. The group, established in 1977, has the objective of involving an increasing number of Afghan women in social and political activities aimed at acquiring women’s human rights, and contributing to the struggle for the establishment of a government based on secular and democratic values...