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JUSTICE NEWSLETTER #4
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace and Justice.
What’s at stake? “so many decades after
the modern feminist movement was launched, the gender wars (male version)
continue at levels that should shock anyone.”
Tomgram.
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Day.” The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 passage of ...
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Equality Day is
a day proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the
granting of the vote to women throughout the country ...
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White House
Aug 26, 2013
- This year on Women's Equality Day we commemorate the
93rd anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, which granted
women ...
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Women's
equality has
made positive gains but the world is still unequal. InternationalWomen's Day celebrates
the social, political and economic achievements ...
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Equality Day commemorates 26th August 1920 when votes to women
officially became part of the US constitution. This day marks a turning point
in the ...
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UNITED
NATIONS — After two weeks of heated debate, liberal and conservative countries
early Saturday approved a U.N. document to promote equality for women that
reaffirms the sexual and reproductive rights of all women and endorses sex
education for adolescents.
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[Special Request and Offer for
TomDispatch Readers: This
is a big day for TD. We’re releasing a spectacular new Dispatch Book,
Rebecca Solnit’s Men Explain Things to Me.
Believe me, it should be an instant classic of gender relations. In a rave prepublication review at the Canadian newspaper
the National Post,
Haley Mlotek hails Solnit’s writing as “one of the most vital tools we, as
readers, can use to understand the world we inhabit. I am glad to live in a
place where Rebecca Solnit will explain things to me.” Tomgram: Rebecca Solnit, The New Feminist Road Map We’re urging TomDispatch readers to lend us a hand in ensuring the book’s success and that Dispatch Books -- for which we have big plans -- has a future by buying at least one copy (today!). If you’re an Amazon customer, any book link in this piece will take you to that site, where, if you buy Men Explain Things to Me, you’re promoting our future (and also sending a few extra cents our way at no cost to you). Otherwise tell your local bookstore to order copies. That’s our fervent request. Now for the offer: for a donation of $100 (or more), money we desperately need to fund the kind of journalism we do, Solnit will sign a personalized copy of the book for you. Check out our donation page for more details, and please note that, because she will be on the road these next weeks, your signed copy will not be in the mail until early June. Tom] Here are two figures, and given how anyone who has been sexually assaulted is likely to feel about the experience, they have to be low-end estimates: the latest Pentagon numbers indicate that about 26,000 men and women (but mainly women) in the U.S. military “were sexually assaulted in 2011, up from 19,000 in 2010”; and the figure regularly cited, even by President Obama and Vice President Biden, is that one in five college women either experience an attempted sexual assault or are raped in their years on campus. While these numbers can be argued about, they are striking evidence that, so many decades after the modern feminist movement was launched, the gender wars (male version) continue at levels that should shock anyone. Or thought of another way: for a surprising percentage of women in the twenty-first century, every career path seems to end in the same grim place. a half-century later. She suggests that, whatever has yet to be won, by changing our assumptions feminists have already insured that the biggest battle of all is in the past. That women are equal to men and deserve equal rights as well, as Solnit points out, is no longer an earth-shattering idea, and that in itself is a great victory, even if getting institutions and individuals to abide by it is another matter. Featuring a famed essay which originally appeared at TomDispatch and gives the book its title, it ranges from a highly original inquiry into marriage equality to a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women and a moving exploration of how novelist Virginia Woolf embraced the mystery of not knowing. Simply put, Men Explain Things to Me is a must-read masterpiece. Tom Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police Force Feminism Has Just Started (and It’s Not Stopping Now) By Rebecca Solnit [This essay is from Rebecca Solnit’s new book, Men Explain Things to Me, and appears at TomDispatch.com with the permission of Haymarket Books and Dispatch Books.] The history of women’s rights and feminism is often told as though it were a person who should already have gotten to the last milestone or has failed to make enough progress toward it. Around the millennium lots of people seemed to be saying that feminism had failed or was over. On the other hand, there was a wonderful feminist exhibition in the 1970s entitled “Your 5,000 Years Are Up.” It was a parody of all those radical cries to dictators and abusive regimes that your [fill in the blank] years are up. It was also making an important point. Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earth -- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends. That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that everything is not permanently, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has 999 miles to go and will never get anywhere. It takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to stop everyone who’s moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great leap, find what we didn’t know we were looking for, and yet continue to contain contradictions for generations. Click here to read more of this dispatch. |
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Fortunately, in Men Explain Things to Me, just published today,TomDispatch regular Rebecca Solnit offers a striking and hopeful assessment of where the feminist movement is now, and of the ways of thinking it has made so antiquated that none of us can return to them, no matter the pressures. Her new book on the gender wars, from which today’s post is taken, offers a fresh look at feminism a half-century later. She suggests that, whatever has yet to be won, by changing our assumptions feminists have already insured that the biggest battle of all is in the past. That women are equal to men and deserve equal rights as well, as Solnit points out, is no longer an earth-shattering idea, and that in itself is a great victory, even if getting institutions and individuals to abide by it is another matter. Featuring a famed essay which originally appeared at TomDispatch and gives the book its title, it ranges from a highly original inquiry into marriage equality to a terrifying survey of the scope of contemporary violence against women and a moving exploration of how novelist Virginia Woolf embraced the mystery of not knowing. Simply put, Men Explain Things to Me is a must-read masterpiece. Tom
Pandora’s Box and the Volunteer Police
Force
Feminism Has Just Started (and It’s Not Stopping Now) By Rebecca Solnit
[This
essay is from Rebecca Solnit’s new book, Men Explain Things to Me,
and appears at TomDispatch.com with the permission of
Haymarket Books and Dispatch Books.]
The
history of women’s rights and feminism is often told as though it were a
person who should already have gotten to the last milestone or has failed to
make enough progress toward it. Around the millennium lots of people seemed
to be saying that feminism had failed or was over. On the other hand, there
was a wonderful feminist exhibition in the 1970s entitled “Your 5,000 Years
Are Up.” It was a parody of all those radical cries to dictators and abusive
regimes that your [fill in the blank] years are up. It was also making an
important point.
Feminism
is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in
many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and
most households on Earth -- and in our minds, where it all begins and ends.
That so much change has been made in four or five decades is amazing; that
everything is not permanently, definitively, irrevocably changed is not a
sign of failure. A woman goes walking down a thousand-mile road. Twenty
minutes after she steps forth, they proclaim that she still has 999 miles to
go and will never get anywhere.
It
takes time. There are milestones, but so many people are traveling along that
road at their own pace, and some come along later, and others are trying to
stop everyone who’s moving forward, and a few are marching backward or are
confused about what direction they should go in. Even in our own lives we
regress, fail, continue, try again, get lost, and sometimes make a great
leap, find what we didn’t know we were looking for, and yet continue to
contain contradictions for generations.
[A
positive review appeared in Yes!
Magazine (Fall 2014). –D]
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CONTENTS of
#1 2011
Republican
War on Women
Gender
Justice USA
Equal Rights
Amendment
ERA in Arkansas
Books, Films,
Plays
UN Support of
Women
Great Women:
Wangari Maathai
Terry O’Neill
US Aid to Yemen
19th
Amendment
Title VII
Title IX
Contents of #2 2012
19th
Amendment
President
Obama
Huffington
Post
Women and the
UN
Feminist
Films
Global
Victims
Violence
Against Women Act
Feminist
Heroines
Lily
Ledbetter
The Hunger Games
Margaret
Fuller
US Action
Plan March 2012
Contents #3 2013
President
Obama’s 2013 Proclamation
Library of
Articles
WAND: US
National Action Plan
National
Women’s History Museum
WORD: Women
Organized to Resist and Defend
League of
Women Voters
Burns, Women
in Combat
Bourgeois,
Support for Ordination of Women
Film, “Alice
Walker: Beauty in Truth”
END WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY NEWSLETTER 2014
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