The feminist movement in the United States and abroad was a social and political movement that sought to establish equality for women. The movement transformed the lives of many individual women and exerted a profound effect upon American society...

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In spite of an appearance of apathy in social feminism, many strong voices are calling for a new activism and vision in global feminisms today. bell hooks speaks about community, and also about "feminist movement," which implies constant mobility--thinking as action, movement, and...

Feminist film is essentially a discipline that began as a movement and appears to be developing into an increasingly accepted as an area of study rather than as a sphere of action. Author B. Ruby Rich's volume 'Chick Flicks: Theories and Memories of the...

Mike Buday isn't married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers. But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn't simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.As in most other states,...

A recent ban on all abortions is putting women's lives at risk in Nicaragua, where doctors are now unwilling to attend to some obstetric emergencies and women are too afraid to seek help, doctors and a U.S. human rights group said Tuesday.Abortions already were rare...