I very much appreciate the manifest content of Eugene Genovese’s piece, although I’m impatient with its deeper import. As for the first, I agree entirely that it remains difficult, often impossible, to discuss publicly within the sociable circles and academic …
Christine Stansell: The Tea Party and Reproductive Rights
Christine Stansell: Shelter for Afghan Women
Christine Stansell: Comrade Duch
In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s election brought the New Right to Washington. For feminists, it was the culmination of a series of devastating setbacks. The new administration gave the green light to an anti-feminist agenda that the Moral Majority, the Hyde …
Christine Stansell: A Response to Linfield
The First 100 Days: Christine Stansell
Day After: Christine Stansell – I Was There
Think back to a year and a half ago, to spring 2007, when this all began. Despite Hillary Clinton’s advantages in connections and money going into the primaries, those in the know cited a multitude of reasons she would fall …
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In early September 1968, American feminism announced its arrival to the nation, when a hundred women demonstrators from New York traveled down to Atlantic City to disrupt the Miss America pageant. The protest on the boardwalk was more or less …
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Katha Pollitt’s Learning to Drive.
Three Rwandan women in a village outside Kigali. Photo: Robert Guerra Nothing, I remember nothing,” the middle-aged witness insisted to the court. “I was sick during the genocide.” She was standing before a man accused of multiple murders, an audience …
The Lost Executioner: A Story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop and Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak by Jean Hatzfeld, translated by Linda Coverdale
