On the heels of the Egyptian Revolution, Yemen’s uprising is gaining momentum with every passing day. And as the World Medias are turning their attention to this forgotten country of the Arabic Peninsula; one cannot escape the fact that the face of this pro-democracy movement is that of a woman. Given that Yemen is […]
by Nona Willis Aronowitz In November 2006, mere weeks after the death of my mother, radical feminist and journalist Ellen Willis, my friend Emma Bee Bernstein and I found ourselves contemplating what feminism meant to us. We were just 22, and we felt that the legacy of feminism was slipping through our fingers and that […]
Yes, we have caved in and joined the latest social-networking fad. You can now follow Women and Foreign Policy on Twitter. Barack Obama does…or so Twitter says.
Among the speakers at this year’s Oxford University’s Radical Forum was Deborah Cameron, a professor of linguistics at Worcester College whose research interests include language, gender, the media and the interactions between them. She is also the author of The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do men and women really speak different languages? which succeeds […]