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...the relationship between pity-charity liberalism and unconditional, universal programs related to economic security. A perfect example is how labor in the New Deal was treated differently by gender. ...Precarious, vulnerable work was once relegated solely to women, but in this day and age more and more of us will fall into that category.

...the precarious worker is “indebted, insecure, vulnerable.” If the classic notion of a worker “relies on having a bargaining place at the table with the boss,” then precarious workers aren’t workers (even though all they do is work or try to cobble work together).

...the precarious nature of gender and work is both reflected in and amplified by governmental regulatory regimes, and...the future looks bleak in terms of bending those regimes toward just ends. Suzanne Mettler’s Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy (1998) is useful for this conversation. ...

[Re FDR's New Deal] It just so happened that the federal government’s role regulated the work and lives of white men, while the state and local role retained authority over women and minorites. ...

The crucial point is that liberal inclusion was based on long-term, full-time work for a single employer. If you had a job along those lines –and these jobs were held by white men at that time — then you were included in a regime of universal economic security.

...For insight into how the current administration’s approach is playing out in this model, take a look at the administration of health care reform. ...

[Whoa. I know kung fu. -L]

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Occupy Wall Street may have begun as a bank-focused protest, but during the past six weeks it has grown to encompass other progressive concerns, including employment, community, the environment, gender equality, and social justice – in short, many of the same issues that the feminist movement has focused on. And like the feminist movement, OWS is also addressing reproductive rights – although OWS is addressing this issue through economic concerns, rather than a focus on women themselves.

From subsidized family planning services, to women that choose abortion because they can’t afford a child, to what kind of contraception women can afford, economics affect family planning choices in multiple ways. Too often, they only serve to limit these choices... forcing families to choose between having a child and having financial security. It’s an interconnected system, and this reality is too often overlooked ...

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...the year that Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, beginning a wider, new awareness of women's issues. It was also the year that the Equal Pay Act of 1963 became law and the President's Commission on the Status of Women released its final report. ...

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These calls for strong female characters start to run into trouble with trans women, nonwhite women, and women of colour in pop culture. Because women in all three of these categories are automatically expected to be strong.

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In an important milestone for women in the open technology and culture community, Tim O’Reilly announced that O’Reilly Media pledges to create an official code of conduct for OSCON and all O’Reilly events.

...followed several days of emails, tweets, and phone calls by the open source community. The result was an avalanche of enthusiastic support for a clear, specific, actionable code of conduct...

The pebble that started the avalanche was Noirin Plunkett’s blog post, “Conferences and Dark Alleyways” on July 22. In it, Plunkett recalled the advice given to her ...

...the Ada Initiative helped organize public demonstrations of support... including an online petition. Among the first people to sign the petition was Tim O’Reilly himself.

...[OSCON] will join the dozens of conferences with some form of anti-harassment policy, including LinuxCon, USENIX conferences, and Open Source Bridge.

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Wow, what cool new arguments. I definitely want to be a Regular-Person Feminist — you know, the type who doesn’t ever talk about feminism, and definitely won’t hurt your feelings by challenging anything you say. Unfortunately, I appear to be some hybrid of the Joyless Psuedo-Intellectual Feminist and the Slutty Feminist ...

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Practitioners of feminist philosophy of biology use gender as an analytic category to conduct philosophical investigations of the biological sciences.

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...I would really rather not have the next conversation to be about whether the success of Bridesmaids means that other supposed “raunchy” female comedies will also be successful. If the next several female R rated films fail (which all were made before Bridesmaids was released)—in the long gone days of one month ago before the power that be realized women existed—does that negate the success of Bridesmaids?

And by the way when did raunchy become the female equivalent of funny? Hangover dudes just get to be funny, but women, their funniness must be defined as raunch.

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There are many that I know about, and probably lots more that I don’t know about. Let’s try to crowd-source a list. Here’s my start ...

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Dear President Obama:

Today marks two years since Dr. George Tiller, ...one of the precious few physicians in the country who performed lifesaving late-term abortions, was murdered at his church.

...we are expected to trade everything away, including our civil liberties, in exchange for protection from the existential threat of nebulous foreign terrorists, but...one of the most brazen, unapologetic terrorist campaigns in America, ...potentially affecting the lives of more than half the population, is ignored by one party and mainstreamed as a central plank of its party platform by the other.

...in response to this onslaught of violently misogynist activity by people who seek to rob people with uteri of their ...right of self-determination, ...their ability to do that most basic of life management in the modern world ...your party has been all but silent.

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It is not Medicare which covers long-term nursing home care for the elderly but Medicaid. If Medicaid funds for that are cut, who is going to pay?

Three additional aspects of this problem affect women directly:...

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Roseanne wrote a delightful essay, which illuminates her wonderful and complicated legacy, and you should read it. For no other reason than that it gives context to the following line:

"I gave Joss Whedon and Judd Apatow their first writing jobs"

[My mother disliked the show because she felt Roseanne's "humor" verged on verbal/emotional abuse toward her kids. Aside from that, yeah, it was pretty awesome. -L]

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Tucson Weekly photographer Josh Morgan was on the scene for Tucson's slutwalk on Friday afternoon.

Why a slutwalk?…

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I’m happy to see that the xkcd about “Zombie Marie Curie” has been making the rounds, because the “I make a sorry role model if girls just see me over and over as the one token lady scientist” bit gives voice to my long-held frustration about the predictable and repetitive trotting-out of the same handful of historical women as the go-to examples of women in science.

...To not [include] any contemporary scientists under the heading “Women in Science” is to pathologize and exoticize the idea of simultaneously being a woman and being a scientist, and that’s about the last thing scientists need.

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Manal, a 32-year-old woman, is planning something she’s never done openly in her native Saudi Arabia: Get in her car and take to the streets, defying a ban on female drivers in the kingdom.

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Intersectionality is, very roughly speaking, the idea that different systems of oppression (such as racism and sexism) can't be dealt with in isolation: these systems interlink.

It's a bit of feminist jargon which gets used frequently in blogs and theoretical discussions. But the Central American Women's Network has put together a great toolkit on how organisations in Latin America and the UK are applying this theory in reality. ...

Overall, a really useful toolkit for anyone who has wondered about what intersectional feminist activism looks like in practice.

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