Pages tagged with Social Change

  • Ehrenreich-fromcreativewell2_small

    Opinion

    A Homespun Safety Net

    The New York times, July 11, 2009

    If nothing else, the recession is serving as a stress test for the American safety net. How prepared have we been for sudden and violent economic dislocations of the kind that leave millions homeless and jobless?   More

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    Opinion

    Opinion

    Shakesville Blog, August 20, 2009

    From whom are the world's women being saved? From themselves? From just the women and girls in the developing world? Or are those the only women and girls who need saving? Everything's peachy in the developed world, is it? And then there is this: Can the lives of women and girls, anywhere, be changed if the lives and men and boys aren't changed, too?  More

  • How to End Violence Against Women & Children

    Syracuse Cultural Workers

    Wise words from Syracuse Cultural Workers poster about how to end men's violence against women and children.  More

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    Action Alert

    Mothers Deserve More

    May 10, 2009

    Mothers may be invisible to the mainstream media, but Stop Family Violence sees you. And we know that for many of you, this day is not easy. This year, instead of the card buying, candy giving, flower filled frenzy that Mother’s Day has become let’s truly honor Mothers by making visible your plight, your efforts, your stories and your dreams for Mothers everywhere. We'll send your comments to the President, VP, Cabinet Members and your members of Congress.
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  • Feminist Analysis

    Now you see it, now you don't: the state of the battered women's movement

    Off Our Backs

    Depoliticization has moved the discussion of domestic violence away from a structural, social analysis of the dynamics of interests and power and resituated it in the realm of individual behaviors and pathologies of victims and perpetrators.  More

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    Magazine Article : Feminist Analysis

    Incest: a Feminist Core Issue That Needs Re-Politizising

    Les Penelopes, January 1, 2004

    The issue of incest in the U.S. is a political issue, one of violence toward women and children that belongs to feminism. It has been hijacked and defused. Women's language has been stolen and reshaped to suit others' agendas. My hope is that reviewing the history might galvanize the action so urgently needed to get our own back.   More