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Monthly Archives: February 2001
Camille Paglia on “The Vagina Monologues”
In her latest Salon.Com column, Camille Paglia dismisses the “garish visibility” of Eve Ensler and “The Vagina Monologues.” The perversion of feminism that Ensler represents — turning Valentine’s Day, the one holiday celebrating romantic harmony between the sexes, into a … Continue reading
Utah Begins Crackdown on Polygamy
Ahead of the 2002 Olympics, Utah has begun a crackdown on polygamous marriages. Although Utah agreed to outlaw polygamy as a condition of its statehood, the state has for the most part not prosecuted those who still enter into marriages … Continue reading
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Drug Addict Charged With Killing Her Fetus
South Carolina is on the cutting edge of a controversial practice that will someday be decided by the Supreme Court — can women who take illegal drugs during her pregnancy be charged with child abuse? South Carolina considers a fetus … Continue reading
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Betty Raidor, Victim of McMartin Preschool Hysteria, Dead at 81
Betty Raidor, 81, died recently of complications from a heart attack at her Bakersfield, California, home. Raidor was part of one of the most bizarre legal proceedings in U.S. history. After children at the McMartin Preschool accused her and others … Continue reading
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BBC Profiles An Opponent of Female Genital Mutilation
The BBC recently ran a profile of Amna Badri, a campaigner against female genital mutilation who herself was a victim of the practice at the age of six in Sudan. Badri describes her own experience when she and her sister, … Continue reading
The Surrendered Wife Phenomena
Everywhere I turn I seem to run into another profile or interview with Laura Doyle, the author of The Surrendered Wife. I haven’t read the book, but Doyle is kind enough to post the first chapter on her web site. … Continue reading
Rape on Campus: 1 in 33
Campus rape statistics have become highly politicized over the past decade. Campus feminists and rape advocates often cite figures claiming that as many as 1 in 4 college women are victims of rapes. Critiques of such high figures, including this … Continue reading
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Is Puberty Really Starting Earlier for Girls?
I consider myself a pretty skeptical person, but I have to confess I accepted at face value claims that girls were reaching puberty. Surely such a claim, based on studies published in some relatively prestigious journals, had a lot of … Continue reading
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Sexual Slavery in the Sudan
In a recent column for the Village Voice, Nat Hentoff urged the incoming Bush administration to take seriously the long standing reports coming from Sudan of the use of rape and sexual slavery as a weapon of war by the … Continue reading
The Tragedy of Female Slavery in Ghana
The BBC recently ran a sad report about the persistence of trokosi — a form of religious slavery — in rural parts of Ghana. Although a law was passed three years ago in Ghana outlawing it, up to 3,000 women … Continue reading