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 | What I Know for Sure: The Future Is Up to UsAt eighty, the 2010 Humanist Heroine (with Annie Laurie Gaylor) says she’s more opinionated than ever |
Shifting Positions: Humanist Perspectives on PornPrior to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, pornographic material was kept private amid a culture that labeled it too risqué for the public eye. With the mass production of magazines like Playboy and Penthouse, porn’s increasing visibility elicited outrage [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2010 Humanist
Tagged censorship, feminism, lgbt, misogyny, pornography, sexuality Leave a comment |
Atheism, Ethics, and Pornography: An Interview with Nina HartleyMarie Hartman graduated with honors from San Francisco State University and is the author or coauthor of several books published by major publishing houses under her stage name, Nina Hartley. She is also the star of more than 600 adult [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2010 Humanist
Tagged feminism, feminist, lgbt, patriarchy, pornography, science, sex, sexuality Leave a comment |
Liberté, Egalité—de Féministes! Revealing the Burqa as a Pro-Choice Issue“Ban the burqa! Ban the burqa!” Across Western Europe this resounds as the rallying cry of the day among the public and politicians. At least Belgium, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, and the United Kingdom are in various stages of [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2010 Humanist
Tagged ban, burqa, burqa ban, equal rights, equality, feminism, feminist, hijab, islam, muslim, niqab, reproductive rights Leave a comment |
Lift the Veil, See the LightWe were studying the American Civil War in one of my middle school social studies classes when we were charged with the task of debating the pros and cons of slavery. I know, in retrospect it seems a bit odd [Read More...]
Published in the September / October 2010 Humanist
Tagged feminism, first amendment, free speech, niqabs, sexism, slavery, veils, women's rights 1 Comment |
A Questionable Pro-Choice Strategy (in 140 Characters or Less)In February a woman named Angie Jackson made national headlines by live-tweeting her abortion. In doing so, she sparked a firestorm of criticism and raised important questions about what role, if any, such efforts to demystify abortion should play in [Read More...]
Published in the May / June 2010 Humanist
Tagged abortion, feminism, planned parenthood, pro-choice, reproductive rights, Ru-486, tweet, tweeting, twitter 1 Comment |
Hidden from HistoryEquality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. —Section 1, Equal Rights Amendment George Santayana’s famous quote, “Those who cannot remember the past are [Read More...] |
The Female Nature: A Woman’s Destiny?Don’t give a woman the freedom to choose, because if you do she might just make the wrong choice. Or so goes the reasoning of the majority opinion in the April 18 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Gonzales [Read More...] |
