Ruthann Robson (CUNY): Lesbians and Abortions. Jessica Wilkerson (Vermont): Conspicuously Absent: Birth Choice as the Next Feminist Fight. From The Scholar and Feminist Online, a special issue on technology, justice, and the global reproductive market. Is it time for birth control without a prescription? The recently published Capitalism, For and Against: A Feminist Debate sees authors Ann Cudd and Nancy Holmstrom take up opposing sides of the issue. A review of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s by Stephanie Coontz. Two Ivy League presidents — Penn’s Amy Gutmann and Brown’s Ruth Simmons — grapple with what’s holding smart, young women from seizing leadership positions. Kerry Howley reviews Sheila Rowbotham's Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century, and Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards's Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Tenth Anniversary Edition. A feminist identity takes time to blossom, and the bumps along the way are assets, not roadblocks: An excerpt from Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. Dove's Go Sleeveless ad campaign creates body anxieties women didn't know they had and sells them the solution. The long road to equality: Julian Baggini reports on a surge of activity questioning the low representation of women. Christine Neejer (Louisville): Women’s Studies, Students and the Discourse of Crisis. Power, confidence, and high-heels: What’s the deal with women’s relationship to their footwear? How a sex rebel was born: Susie Bright talks about her sexual awakening, feminist hypocrisy — and where the sexual revolution went wrong. American feminist legend Erica Jong selects essential reading for women – and says the revolution is far from over. A review of Why Women Have Sex: Sexual Motivation from Adventure to Revenge — And Everything in Between by Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss.
