Repression against feminists for speaking out on behalf of women as an oppressed sex class has been increasing at an alarming rate. An extensive compilation of victims in various countries and situations is available here. Ann Menasche, a feminist lawyer in California who was…
Category: Reproduction
Is Your Local School Teaching the Pseudoscience of Gender Ideology?
by Kathy Scarbrough Just when it looks like some progress is being made against transgender ideology infringement on women’s hard won rights—at least in the UK and in Spain—we were alarmed to learn of the inroads it is making in…
A “Poverty Draft” for Women Only?
New York Legalizes Commercial Surrogacy by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch As Kathy Sloan predicted in an article we published in 2017, NY State just joined most other states in the U.S. by passing provisions enabling the well-off to use…
Women’s Unpaid Labor in Political Economy* Revisited
by Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough *Generally, Marxist Political Economy comprises an integrative analysis of the economy, society and politics. These three fields are not considered as isolated but as interdependent structures that evolved historically. The analysis of class struggle,…
Birth Strike: A Review
Birth Strike, The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work by Jenny Brown Reviewed by Colette Price When a woman gives birth, she goes into labor, it’s work, usually hard work. At the end she delivers the product, a baby. It’s…
Chilean Feminists Respond to “Birth Regret”
Some reflections and opinions about repentance of having given birth by Feminists Lucid, Santiago, Chile September 2017 In our group we have translated the discussion about motherhood and the repentance of giving birth [Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling].…
Stunning Rise in Maternal Deaths in U.S.
By Carol Hanisch On the heels of our Mother’s Day post on “Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling” comes a chilling report that not only do more women in the United States die of complications from childbirth than in any other…
Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling
A Consciousness-Raising Discussion about Motherhood and Birth Regret The public is often harangued with stories of supposed “abortion regret”. A recent on-line discussion resulted with its opposite: birth regret. Women discuss their often mixed feelings about having given birth —…
Surrogacy in the United States
by KATHY SLOAN for presentation to the UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN– CSW 61 “TRADING ON THE FEMALE BODY” MARCH 14, 2017 The practice of commercial surrogacy in the United States is growing by leaps and bounds with…
“Viagra for Women” Pill Fails to Perform
The “little pink pill”, sometimes referred to as the “Viagra for women”, is having a hard time performing up to its corporate claims. When the drug flibanserin (brand name: Addyi) was approved a year ago by the FDA – supposedly to help women’s…