Warum die Kanzlerin als Ikone des Postfeminismus taugt.

But this week, Charlotte Allen pushes the boundaries of incredulity by blaming feminism for bad service on airlines.

Never mind Batman, Tanya Gold goes in search of an inspirational female superhero - but instead finds a sad bunch full of self-loathing, misery and fear of acne

Die Wissenschaft hat festgestellt, festgestellt, festgestellt: "Die Macho-Strategie hat ausgedient."

Since I got married, everyone and their mailman has asked me this question. Why, suddenly, is my body everyone else's business?

I still want my husband to change the light bulbs and fix the leaky faucets. Maybe I'm not as much of a feminist as I think I am.

I guess the family-unfriendly image of a fish-woman spreading her tails is on its way out.

Thematisch orientiert sich die Datenbank an dem Forschungsprojekt und umfasst Publikationen aus der Migrations-, Gender-, der historischen Dienstmädchen- und der Arbeitsmarktforschung. Die Schwerpunkte liegen auf Publikationen, die den Haushalt als Arbeitsort, den (oft) illegalisierten Aufenthaltsstatus der Haushaltsarbeiterinnen, ihren Migrationshintergrund sowie ihre Beziehungen zu ihren Herkunftsfamilien (transnational families) thematisieren.

By taking the qualities that are supposed to render them irrelevant and using them strategically, women have been slowly but surely changing the world.

A new government website misinforms parents about how to protect their kids from sexually transmitted diseases.

Whether you love porn or think it's an abomination, "The Other Hollywood" will shake up everything you think you know about the sex film industry.

Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der Diskussion um PISA fragen wir uns, [...]
- welche Werke als literarische "Meilensteine" der Frauenemanzipation gelten können,
- was der "männliche Blick" auf das Lesen von Frauen in Literatur und Bildender Kunst wahrgenommen hat,
- wie sich Frauen in den Neuen Medien bewegen
- ob und worin sich die Rezeption von Texten bei Frauen und Männern unterscheidet u.a.m.

Motherhood has a new gloss on it courtesy of advertisers and mainstream media, but many question whether the underlying conditions of mothering in America have undergone any substantial change.

Frauen spielen viele Rollen, große und kleine, gute und schlechte. Aber welche spielen sie in den Medien? Bekanntlich kommt den Medien, insbesondere den Massenmedien, heute eine größere Bedeutung denn je zu. Sie sind sowohl Teil als auch Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft, sind Ausdruck gesellschaftlichen Wandels und Antwort auf neu entstandene Kommunikationsbedürfnisse, und beide Funktionen beeinflussen sich gegenseitig. Das heißt auch, nahezu nichts, was Einfluss auf gesellschaftliche Prozesse nehmen will, geht ohne die Medien.

"In der Dokumentation der Predigt werde nun der Hinweis auf Hitler getilgt. 'Denn damit bleibt die Aussageabsicht des Textes ganz erhalten: Wo der Mensch sich selbst zu Gott macht, dort verfehlt er sich am Leben', erklärte Meisner weiter."
Dann ist es auch keine Dokumentation mehr, sondern Schönfärberei. Hat jemand den Text gesichert? Ich wäre für eine Kopie dankbar.

One startling point in the paper was that no reliable statistics exist on the frequency of false rape claims: "As a scientific matter, the frequency of false rape complaints to police or other legal authorities remains unknown."

A new book details a hundred years in the arms race to acquire newer, better weapons of cosmetic enhancement.

The wild success of the Disney Princess brand means that my daughter is obsessed with all things pink and sparkly. What's an enlightened father to do?

Swaggering machismo got a new lease on life after the post-9/11 attacks, as Republicans tried to appropriate not just patriotism but also masculinity as a GOP virtue. Attacking the manhood of the opposition has become a signature tactic of any GOP election strategy. So it isn't surprising that the 2004 presidential election campaign has been played out over the past six months as a battle over John Kerry's masculinity. Be it his "sensitivity" on the war on terror or "girlie-man" preoccupation with the lack of jobs or health care, Kerry has been forced to defend himself from a barrage of rhetoric carefully designed to cast not just him but the entire Democratic plank as the epitome of feminine weakness.

The fastest-growing segment of the entertainment industry, video gaming, is dominated by men. Can Lara Croft save us?

A gender discrimination lawsuit offers a glimpse inside the nation's largest private employer and its treatment of women. It ain't pretty.

Es ist ein kleiner Kampf der Kulturen, der da ausgetragen wird im Landgericht Hamburg, ein Kampf, der jeden Tag stattfindet, in Schulen, Discotheken, auf der Straße. Auf der einen Seite stehen türkische Jungs, erzogen im Glauben an die männliche Überlegenheit und bis zur Unterlippe voll mit Testosteron. Burschen wie sie, Vertreter des pubertierenden Patriarchats, sehen in Jennifer kein Opfer, sondern die Täterin. Was macht sie nachts ohne Freund, ohne Bruder auf der Reeperbahn? Warum zieht sie sich so aufreizend an? Und warum jammert sie? Es ist doch nichts passiert. Nicht einmal einen blauen Fleck hat sie gehabt. Auf der anderen Seite steht eine junge Frau, die das Recht haben will, auch morgens um fünf Uhr unbehelligt nach Hause fahren zu dürfen.

In some states, new laws allow pharmacists and other health care providers the right to refuse to supply some medications. This is similar to allowing doctors the right to refuse to perform abortions. For example, Mississippi's new law says pharmacists and other health care workers may refuse to fill prescriptions if doing so conflicts with their religious beliefs. Arkansas and Illinois also have laws allowing pharmacists to refuse EC to patients on religious or moral grounds. South Dakota allows a pharmacist to refuse to fill a prescription if "there is reason to believe it will destroy an unborn child"; the state defines a child's life as beginning at fertilization.
In sharp contrast, California, New Mexico, Hawaii, Maine and Washington now have laws enabling pharmacists to provide EC without a prescription as long as they can provide sufficient counseling to women who request it. But even in these states, individuals often have the discretion to refuse to provide EC.
Meanwhile, Catholic hospitals have their own policies - or lack thereof. Some will provide EC, but only to women who have convinced them that they have been raped. Directive 36, handed down by the Vatican, states that in cases of sexual assault, a woman may receive EC from a Catholic provider. However, many Catholic facilities require a pregnancy test and a full medical exam, which discourages women and, by delaying the provision of EC, reduces the likelihood that it will be effective.

Authors Cathi Hanauer and Daniel Jones discuss the challenges of navigating the funhouse world of post-modern matrimony.

"Hartz bringt neue Chancen für Frauen", resümiert ein Papier der SPD-Fraktion die von ihr auf den Weg gebrachten Neuerungen. Dem kann man mühelos beipflichten, wenn man das Wort Chancen einfach ein bisschen umdefiniert: Chancen auf Minijobs, Chancen auf Billigjobs, Chancen auf Familienarbeit. Von gleichen Chancen für Frauen und Männer kann bei diesem Gesetz niemand ernsthaft reden. Gender Mainstreaming war mal die Maxime dieser Regierung: Die unterschiedlichen Lebenslagen von Frauen und Männern sollten bei allen Gesetzesvorhaben beachtet werden. Genau das hat man beim Hartz-Gesetz versäumt. Anstatt das Prinzip anzuwenden haben die Autoren ganz unten unter ihr Gesetz geschrieben: "Dieses Gesetz berücksichtigt die Prinzipien des Gender Mainstreaming."

Conventional wisdom, promoted by the media, suggests that the traditional wife is back in vogue. But research shows that financial independence, education and intelligence are really what's hot.

An insidious ad campaign tries to dress Bush and his policies in female-friendly clothing. It's not pretty.

Artikel aus der Bild-Zeitung, wie gewohnt zum Erbrechen: Schöne Mörderin zum Mann umoperiert

They come from faraway towns where second-term abortions are impossible to find. Catherine Megill and the Haven Coalition are there to help them.

Eve Ensler, the vulva-friendly playwright, hosts a fundraiser in New York in the hopes of getting young women to vote with their ... well, you know.

A new wave of opposition to same-sex marriage is gaining ground among ethnic communities and recent immigrants, according to ethnic media reports. In San Francisco and in cities across the country, ethnic communities are "coming out" in full force, forming their own religious coalitions and organizing protests to oppose same-sex marriage.

Familiäre Gewalt gehört in der Türkei für mindestens jede dritte Frau noch immer zum Alltag, Zwangsverheiratungen und Misshandlungen sind an der Tagesordnung, Vergewaltigungen und Ehrenmorde werden vertuscht oder mit geringen Strafen belegt. amnesty macht für diese Situation aber nicht nur die Täter, sondern auch die türkische Regierung verantwortlich. Ihr wirft die Menschenrechtsorganisation vor, die Nachlässigkeit von Polizei und Justiz stillschweigend hinzunehmen, öffentliche Zufluchtsorte mangelhaft zu unterstützen und keine staatlichen Beratungsstellen zu unterhalten.
Telepolis sprach über dieses Drama, das sich noch an der Grenze der Europäischen Union abspielt, mit Amke Dietert, der Türkei-Expertin von amnesty international.

Die Waffen der Frauen - darunter versteht die US-Waffen-Lobby etwas anderes als die meisten Menschen. Jede Hausfrau ist eine potenzielle Protestwählerin. Sie werden nun mit schmucken Revolver-Täschchen und Schießübungen umgarnt.

Kolleginnen und Kollegen, Rentnerinnen und Rentner, StudentInnen und SchülerInnen - wie kein anderes Volk auf der Welt sind die Deutschen ein Volk der Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Doch wo bleiben die Steuerhinterzieherinnen, die Extremistinnen und die Schwarzfahrerinnen?

Was bleibt von den Miss-Universe-Wahlen und der Stop-Barbie-Kampagne im russischen Internet?

This page offers an overview of the emergence of men's magazines in Germany. Meike Werkmeister was a reader of Media, Gender and Identity, writing a dissertation on men's magazines at Hochschule Bremen in Germany.

Rebecca Walker, the editor of a new collection of essays about the meaning of "masculinity," talks about her anthology -- and how her identity as a black, white and Jewish bisexual affects her work.

You can now slap a purple or pink label that says "for women" on a product and make choosing to buy it a feminist act.

Vielen Frauennotrufen in Deutschland geht allmählich finanziell die Puste aus.

The Abu Ghraib portraits of sexual humiliation and submission have exposed the unbelievably tangled strands of racism, misogyny, homophobia, national arrogance and hyper-masculinity that characterize the U.S. military. Militarized sexual domination is neither "contrary to American values" nor simply the work of a few "bad apples." It is, rather, a daily practice.

Even those people we might have thought were impervious to shame, like the secretary of Defense, admit that the photos of abuse in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison turned their stomachs.
The photos did something else to me, as a feminist: They broke my heart. I had no illusions about the U.S. mission in Iraq %u2013 whatever exactly it is %u2013 but it turns out that I did have some illusions about women.

This study examines issues of online identity and language use among teenagers (ages 13 - 17) who create and maintain weblogs or blogs, which are personal journals created by individuals and made publicly accessible on the Internet. Online identity is investigated in terms of the disclosure of personal information, online name choice, avatar selection and emotive features. Language use is explored in terms of word counts and semantic themes. This study also examines common blog topics, blog characteristics, blog abandonment rates and frequency of use.

No one can doubt that the gay-sex photos of abuse display the deeply-seated homophobia that remains pervasive and unchecked in the United States military.

Wie die Soldatin Lynndie England dazu kam, das böse Amerika zu verkörpern, obwohl ihre Rolle bei den Misshandlungen im Irak noch unklar ist.

The radical origins of Mother's Day - as a powerful feminist call against war, penned in the wake of the U.S. Civil War in 1870 - are fully compatible with the universal notion of honoring mothers.

Unter all den Ungeheuerlichkeiten, die sich im Gefängnis von Abu Ghraib zugetragen haben, war die eine unverzeihliche, die Demütigung, die die arabische Welt niemals verzeihen kann:
Die Tatsache, dass Frauen sie begingen. Frauen wie die blonde, straff frisierte Generalin Janis Karpinski, die seit ihrem fünften Lebensjahr von der Army träumt und nicht mitbekommen haben will, wie sich unter ihrem Befehl Saddam Husseins Kerker erneut in einen Folterkeller verwandelte, wie Männer vergewaltigt und zu sexuellen Handlungen gezwungen wurden, wie sie mit Frauenunterwäsche über dem Kopf ans Bett gekettet wurden.

Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have formally accused seven people of aiding and abetting a revenge rape on two women.

Marketers held a conference to find out what women do online. The answer: everything except the one crucial thing -- look for cleaning products.

Der "Brigitte"-Chefredakteur Andreas Lebert über die veränderten Ansprüche seiner Leserinnen, Feminismus im Alltag und das Glück, mit Frauen zusammenzuarbeiten

A lesbian serial killer and her vampiric, crafty lesbian lover are the main characters of Monster, an acclaimed recent film that also seems, incongruously, to have won the blessing of the gay and lesbian media and activists.

The first gated community marketed at gays and lesbians is under construction in a small Florida town. Will it be a queer utopia -- or one more sign of the fragmentation of America?

A few years ago, there was a conference in Minneapolis on "Feminism and Rhetoric." I went as a doctrinaire, whiny feminist. The focus of my rant was directed at younger feminist theorists who were using an arcane language that I found an obstruction to my understanding. I thought not only was it arcane, it was an act of cowardice because they were talking in such high falutin' language no one knew what the fuck they were saying!

A damning new report reveals that the Bush administration has quietly removed 25 reports from its Women's Bureau Web site, deleting or distorting crucial information on issues from pay equity to reproductive healthcare.

For men it is quick, easy and essential for reproduction. For women, it is slow, difficult and purely for pleasure. Yet despite such differences, it brings the sexes together and is the basis of the monogamy that distinguishes us from other animals. In his new book, Jonathan Margolis examines the phenomenon of the orgasm.

Blondierte Dauerwelle, billiger Fetzen mit Ausschnitt bis zum Bauchnabel, zentimeterhohe Plateauschuhe: So sehen sie aus, die Uschis dieser Welt. Eigentlich ein mitleiderregendes Schicksal - wäre da nicht die Tatsache, dass Uschis irgendwie besser zurechtkommen mit den Widrigkeiten ihres Lebens. Immer findet sich ein Mann, der Auto oder Spülmaschine repariert und den Wasserkasten in den vierten Stock schleppt. Uschi kriegt, was Uschi will.

Few women's rights supporters can rid their minds of the picture last November when President Bush sat among his friends - all males - and signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. The measure would prevent a physician from making a decision about his or her own patient. After years of struggle for rights and equality, decisions about a woman's body can be legislated. Throughout the march, I heard countless references to that photograph and the long list of policies that the Bush Administration has instituted against women. Marching past the White House the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were unanimous in their call for new leadership. Message to President Bush: "This time....It's Personal."

More than one million pro-choice activists converged in the nation's capital Sunday to protest the government's persistent effort to chip away at women's reproductive and health rights. The March for Women's Lives - organized by a coalition of activist organizations - easily broke attendance records for national reproductive-rights rallies, overwhelming the 750,000 benchmark set in 1992.

Imagine a law declaring that upon becoming pregnant a woman loses her right to bodily integrity, life and liberty. Such a law would undoubtedly result in strong opposition across party lines. But in fact such laws are being passed - though rather than presented as an attack on women's fundamental rights, they are advanced as fetal rights measures such as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act recently signed into law by President Bush. Increasingly, fetal rights are being used to undermine the legal status of pregnant women.

But Team Bush also has been conducting another war, here and abroad, a war against women. Currently they are seeking to invade, with considerable success, the private medical records of women who have had abortions so that the administration can defend its new law against late-term abortions. (And please, let's all stop saying "partial birth," an inaccurate, propagandistic term.) They want welfare mothers to work longer hours than they already do in workfare programs.