Woman President v. Female President

Feminist Law Professors » Blog Archive » “Woman President” v. “Female President”
Language IS important.
Excerpt:
Robin Lakoff from Berkeley, has it right:
[It] suggests that a woman holding that position is marked — in some way unnatural, and that it is natural for men to hold it (so we never say ‘male doctor,’ still less ‘man doctor’). [...]

Pornography and the End of Masculinity

From an independent media siteAlterNet: Sex and Relationships: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
Author is Dan Hazen, executive editor of AlterNet. From the text:
“I have always been part of the collective liberal progressive libertarian value system that accepts pornography as a legitimate expression of the first amendment. Part of that thinking is that women [...]

Posting on the blog « BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

….AND PEOPLE WONDER WHY BLACK WOMEN ARE DEGRADED AND DISRESPECTED IN AMERICA?
A very eloquent response to the Isaiah Thomas issue.
Here are the lead paragraphs from the AP story:
Knicks Exec Explains Use of Vulgar Term
By PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writer
Tue Sep 18, 6:02 Am
NEW YORK – To New York Knicks coach Isiah Thomas, hearing a [...]

Pro-choice legal news: NJ Supreme Court decision

NYT blog: New Jersey’s Top Court Rejects Suit on Abortion
In its unanimous decision, the New Jersey court ruled that, contrary to what the woman’s lawyer had argued, her doctor had “no legal duty” to tell her that her six-to-eight-week-old embryo was “a complete, separate, unique and irreplaceable human being.”
Justice Barry T. Albin, who wrote the [...]

Women’s Studies Dissertations and Theses – Great research!

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Here’s a sample:
The [...]