General Women & Feminism Articles

Bridging Social Justice and Science for Trans Women Athletes by Tuti Scott Moving Money for Impact by Tuti Scott Now’s Our Chance: After a Tumultuous Year, Women Leaders Share 8 Ways to Rebuild a Better World by Marianne Schnall Reframing Women�s History Month by Tuti Scott Lessons From a Siege: What I Learned From the Women in Bosnia That Can Help Us Today by Kathy LeMay Interview With Fran Hauser, Startup Investor by Julie Zeilinger Interview With Lynn Harris, Founder and Executive Director of GOLD Comedy by Julie Zeilinger Interview With Nadya Okamoto, Founder and Executive Director of PERIOD by Julie Zeilinger The Rising Activism in Women's Philanthropy by Marianne Schnall A Girl's Guide to Joining the Resistance: A Feminist Handbook on Fighting for Good (book excerpt) by Emma Gray On Dreaming and Practice: Donna Lopiano, Defender of Women's Rights for Four Decades by Tuti Scott 5 Lessons I Learned From My Interviews With Maya Angelou by Marianne Schnall Patriarchy is Contraindicated for Life by Carla Goldstein, JD Exclusive Insights From Four TEDWomen Speakers (Featuring Luvvie Ajayi, Justin Baldoni, Susan David and Sally Kohn) by Marianne Schnall Remember the Rainy Day Fund? It's Pouring. by Kathy LeMay Why We March: 15 Women Leaders Offer Strategies to Advance the Movement by Marianne Schnall 2016 Had Some Great Breakthroughs for Women in Politics by Jazmin Kay Activist Men React To �Locker Room Talk� by Marianne Schnall Women On The Collaborative Edge: Excerpt from COLLABORATIVE INTELLIGENCE by Dawna Markova and Angie McArthur Ignore the Exit Signs: Stepping In To Our Power by Elizabeth Solomon 2015: The Year of Business Women Gaining Public Power by Rebecca Sive 7 Reasons Why 2014 Was a Great Year for Feminism by Jazmin Kay Excerpt from WE SHOULD ALL BE FEMINISTS by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Staging Andrea's Last Words by John Stoltenberg College 101: The 3 Biggest Feminist Concerns About The College Experience by Julie Zeilinger Getting to the Root of the Problem by Niobe Way Get Off the Guilt Treadmill: It's Not Your Mamma's World by Marjorie Clifton Can Mothers Be Traders? by Susan Shaffer Solovay and Jacki Zehner Black Girl Lessons by Jamia Wilson A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Mammogram... by Blair Glaser Dance as if Your Life Depends on It by Kathy LeMay The Elephant in the Living Room by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner Women Moving Millions Marks First 'International Day of the Girl' with Bold Challenge Anne Frank's Many Sisters by Abigail E. Disney Excerpt from "A Little F'd Up: Why Feminism is Not a Dirty Word" by Julie Zeilinger Teaching Feminism in High School: Moving from Theory to Action by Ileana Jim�nez Excerpt from "Lulu in the Sky" by Loung Ung The White House Report on Women: Three Surprising Insights by Manisha Thakor Questioning Economic Success Through the Lens of Hunger by Devaki Jain Generous Thoughts by Kathy LeMay Pink Ribbons For the Whole Woman by Carla Goldstein Sex, Contraception, Motherhood & The Current Madness by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner How You Will Change the World with Social Networking by Deanna Zandt Sheryl Sandberg On Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders Thank You, Cherie Blair by Cheryl Saban Shirley Chisholm�s Birthday Wish by Glynda C. Carr Excerpt from The Generosity Plan by Kathy LeMay Race, Sex and Power: Anita Hill 20 Years Later by Glynda C. Carr "Miss Representation"�Poised to Advance a Media Movement by Marianne Schnall Is There a Fourth Wave? Does It Matter? by Jennifer Baumgardner Only One Woman on the "Super Committee"? Ouch! by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner Interview With Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words by Marianne Schnall Leading from the Inside Out: Elizabeth Lesser�s Keynote Address at the 2011 Women & Power Retreat by Elizabeth Lesser Excerpt from Manifesto for Young Asian Women by Shiuan Butler Excerpt from Joining the Resistance by Carol Gilligan This Father's Day, Celebrate Men as Advocates for Women by Natasha Lamoreux TEDWomen 2010: "Reshaping the Future" by Marcia G. Yerman Excerpt from Daring to Be Ourselves: Influential Women Share Insights on Courage, Happiness and Finding Your Own Voice by Marianne Schnall Of Two Minds, One Body (Excerpt from My Formerly Hot Life: Dispatches from Just the Other Side of Young) by Stephanie Dolgoff Excerpt from No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power by Gloria Feldt Feminist.com's archive of features from Omega Institute's Women & Power: Our Time to Lead Conference You're a Dead Woman... In the Pink Ghetto by Manisha Thakor Excerpt from The Best of Everything After 50 by Barbara Hannah Grufferman Putting Empowerment of Women and Girls on the Human Agenda by Cheryl Saban Interview with Maria Shriver: On Her Women's Conference and March on Alzheimer's, Aging, and Her Message to Women and Girls by Marianne Schnall How to Make the World a Better Place Despite the Roadblocks and Naysayers (excerpt from Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists) by Courtney Martin Eve Ensler’s Mission: Awaken the Girl Self by Marianne Schnall Both Halves of the Sky: How Women of the Global North and South Make Each Other Whole by Gail Straub From Media Blitz to Women’s Conference: Has Maria Shriver Discerned a Watershed Moment? by Marianne Schnall Feminist.com's Archive of Features from Omega's Women & Power: Connecting Across the Generations Conference Excerpt from Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn On Becoming a Grandmother by Elizabeth Lesser Excerpt from Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen Excerpt from Marrying George Clooney: Confessions from a Midlife Crisis by Amy Ferris Women Connecting Across the Generational Divide: from Gloria Steinem to Courtney Martin Featuring inspiring quotes from amazing women like Elizabeth Lesser, Courtney Martin, Ana Nogales, Gloria Steinem and Helen Thomas Excerpt from The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future by Carol Gilligan and David A. J. Richards Excerpt from Opting In: Having A Child Without Losing Yourself by Amy Richards Excerpt from Returning To My Mother's House: Taking Back the Wisdom of the Feminine by Gail Straub Both Halves of the Sky: How Women of the Global North and South Make Each Other Whole by Gail Straub Excerpt from We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light In a Time of Darkness by Alice Walker Excerpt from Insecure At Last: Losing It In Our Security Obsessed World by Eve Ensler Excerpt from Jane Fonda's Words of Politics and Passion "Women and Men and the Head/Heart Business" Speech by Jane Fonda From Ode Magazine The Real Meaning of Security by Eve Ensler Our obsession with protecting ourselves makes us less safe. That’s the message from Eve Ensler, who travels the globe to end violence against women.

Excerpt from Urgent Message from Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. Excerpt from My Life So Far by Jane Fonda Women of the World by Marie Wilson Female leaders can change the course of our political and economic future—for the benefit of everyone. Talking with the Enemy For years, leaders on both sides of the abortion debate have met in secret in an attempt to better understand each other. Now they are ready to share what they have learned. Speeches from the Omega & V-Day "Women & Power" Conference (featuring transcripts of keynote talks with Jane Fonda, Gloria Steinem, Sister Joan Chittister, Johnnetta Cole, Iyanla Vanzant and Marion Woodman) The Revolutionary Next Door (Excerpt from Grassroots: A Field Guide for Feminist Activism) by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amelia Richards What is Feminism? (Excerpt from Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future) by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amelia Richards "Remember the Ladies" Women's History Column by Janelle Collett Feminism: The Dynamite Perspective by Ruth Dynamite Preface to "The Good Body" by Eve Ensler Privitization of Social Security: A Threat to Women by Edith U. Fierst Beyond Gender by Betty Friedan Introduction (Excerpt from Kiss My Tiara) by Susan Jane Gilman The Spitzer Debacle: Standing By Your Spouse Doesn't Need to Be a Public Act by Nichola D. Gutgold From Silence to Prominence; The Story of Women is Evident in Their Television Images by Nichola D. Gutgold Dinner for Two by Sandra Hurtes The End of Feminism's Third Wave by Lisa Jervis (from Ms. Magazine) Failing Girls in Schools An opinion piece sparked by the recent violence by Andrea Johnston Excerpt from Hot Flashes, Warm Bottles: First-Time Mothers Over Forty by Nancy London Excerpt Fighting Words Excerpt from Robin Morgan’s new nonfiction book Montage (Excerpt from Saturday's Child) by Robin Morgan Excerpt from The Burning Time by Robin Morgan Celebrating Women of Courage Vision National Women's History Project Women Pioneering the Future National Women's History Project Women Sustaining the American Spirit National Women's History Project Taking a New Look At the Woman Suffrage Movement National Women's History Project Notes of a Feminist Long Distance Runner (Excerpt from Sisterhood is Forever) by Eleanor Holmes Norton Feminism's Spiritual Wave by Pythia Peay (from Utne Magazine) Cyberfeminism: Networking on the Net (Excerpt from"Sisterhood Is Forever") by Amy Richards and Marianne Schnall Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth Imagining Life Without Andres (A Tribute to Andrea Dworkin) by John Stoltenberg Loving Your Tree by Nina Utne (from Utne Magazine) The Untold Story of the Iroquois Influence on Early Feminists by Sally Roesch Wagner