2008

• Sayonara, Sarah

  Katha Pollitt : Sarah Palin

  God's gift to journalism--and to feminism.

• Free Sarah Palin!

  YouTube : Presidential Election 2008

  CNN's Campbell Brown slams the McCain campaign for barring their own VP pick from speaking with reporters, a move Brown calls unequivocally 'sexist'.

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  Sarah's Steel Ones

  Amy Alexander : Presidential Campaigns & Elections

  Her politics are detestable, but can we take a moment to recognize that Sarah Palin is one tough woman?

• Lipstick on a Wing Nut

  Katha Pollitt : Presidential Election 2008

  Ten tough questions for Sarah Palin. Really tough.

• Have Pantsuit, Will Travel

  Patricia J. Williams : Convention 08

  Hillary's signature attire is one phase in women's power-dressing; Michelle's sheath is another. But the shoes....

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  Obama and the Sisters

  Melissa Harris-Lacewell : Presidential Election 2008

  His convention speech should draw from the wisdom of black women activists who were the prophets of American democracy.

• The Waitress Test

  Connie Schultz : Presidential Election 2008

  What does Barack Obama have to say to working-class women? Plenty. But he's got to prove he's willing to listen to their concerns.

• Let the Resurrection Begin

  Tom Hayden : Presidential Election 2008

  Hillary Clinton's moving speech cemented a place for herself and the feminist movement in the unfolding drama of the 2008 presidential election.

• Translating Our Bodies, Ourselves

  Linda Gordon

  The feminist health manual's message has evolved as its impact has spread globally.

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  Hillary's Gift to Women

  Barbara Ehrenreich : Presidential Election 2008

  She's managed to smash the myth of innate female moral superiority.

• Backlash Spectacular

  Katha Pollitt

  From campus to courtroom, longstanding gains for women are being eroded everywhere you look.

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  Race to the Bottom

  Betsy Reed : Presidential Election 2008

  How Hillary Clinton's campaign played the race card--and drove a wedge into the feminist movement.

• Men of the Cloth

  Katha Pollitt : Religion

  When it comes to keeping women pregnant and in their place, polygamous Mormons and the Pope have a lot in common.

• Protecting the Women of Congo

  Stephen Lewis : Congo

  The war being waged against women in Congo is an act of criminal international misogyny.

• Suffragist City

  Mary Beth Norton : History

  Two new books examine the history of the first women's rights campaign.

• Who's Got Game?

  Robert Lipsyte : Sports

  A new book advocates equality for men and women on the playing field. But is that still a field of dreams?

• John Q. Public

  Katha Pollitt : Sex & Sexuality

  Just once it would be nice to see a male politician caught in a sex scandal stand up there at a press conference all by himself.

• House of Cards

  Patricia J. Williams : Racism & Discrimination

  It would be truly tragic if John McCain strolls into the White House while we argue over who has it worse, black men or white women.

• Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins

  Oswald Garrison Villard : Nation History

  "Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."

• Morning in America

  : Presidential Election 2008

  As voters choose sides in a momentous election, feminists call on women to reject the race-gender split.

• Wanted: More White Babies

  Kathryn Joyce & VideoNation : Reproductive Rights

  A look at a cynical Christian Conservative effort to export the U.S. culture wars.

• Ms.understanding

  Katha Pollitt : Journalists & Journalism

  The magazine walks into a trap labeled "political correctness," "left-wing anti-Semitism" and "multiculturalist Islam love."

• Black Women Talk Barack

  Amy Alexander : African-Americans

  It's like one big family squabble among feminists, activists and post-civil-rights-era voters.

• Bella's Way

  Nona Willis Aronowitz : Biography

  They just don't make women politicians like Bella Abzug anymore.

• Long Roe to Hoe

  Frances Kissling & Kate Michelman : Reproductive Rights

  Improving the sorry state of US reproductive health policy requires serious shifts within the women's movement and the abortion rights movement.