Posted in History, New York, Reproductive Rights, United States on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
The feminists at Feministing have picked up on an abortion ban currently being considered by the Lithuanian Parliament, under pressure from the Catholic Church, to ban abortion in their country. They make the most significant point that such abortion bans only truly affect lower-income women, and this has been the case throughout much of history. [...]
Posted in Gender, History, United States on April 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Forget the title, we should probably just take “masculine” out of the picture just as we take “feminine” out. What female wants to be described as “feminine” (shrinking, timid, ladylike, well-kept), and what male wants to be described as “masculine” (grunty, gruff, muscular, insensitive, sports-watching)? (To be fair, I can think of a few on [...]
Posted in Gender, History, New York, tagged Lusty Ruling Ladies, Spitzer, Women in History on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not like we haven’t been deluged with the whole Spitzer scandal, but I thought this post by Judith Shulevitz at Slate’s XX Factor really summed up many of my thoughts at the public airing of the proverbial dirty laundry. First, let me state, that I think Spitzer was right to step down from office. Not [...]
Posted in Gender, History, tagged Bonnie Smith, Gender History, Jill Lepore, New Yorker, Richard Evans on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
An Amateur Historian’s Response to “Just the Facts, Ma’am” in The New Yorker, March 24, 2008.
Harvard historian Jill Lepore wrote a fascinating critical essay in the New Yorker this week beginning with a very worthy question: what is all this fuss on history vs. fiction vs. memoir? Why do we crucify the James Freys of [...]
Posted in History, Reproductive Rights, Weimar Germany on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
As my friend (and brilliant future legal scholar) Lindsey pointed out the other day, another issue to query into when we address our society’s attitude toward abortion is the responsibility of the state.
Roe v. Wade argues that “a State may properly assert important interests in safeguarding health, in maintaining medical standards, and [...]
Posted in History, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, Weimar Germany on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
The other night I walked out of a panel on the RHPAA at Judson Memorial Church on Washington Square South to be met by two men (skeevy, skeevy men) who had been lying in wait for two hours to badger the women and men leaving the meeting. Inside the panel, I had witnessed a dude [...]
Posted in History, RHPPA, Reproductive Rights, tagged Activism, History, RHPPA, Your Author on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
No, that wasn’t a rhetorical question, but an an attempt at an introduction of sorts for this blog.
Namely, this blog was inspired by a fight that’s going on right now in that progressive of all states, New York, for the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act (RHPPA) that was announced in Spring 2007 following the [...]
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