freedom and women

Bread, Circuses, Stick Shifts

A rare nudge toward liberalism in Saudi Arabia:Saudi Arabia is to lift its ban on women drivers in an attempt to stem a rising suffragette-style movement in the deeply conservative state. [...]The...

Robert Tait should have been fired by The Guardian's editors much earlier

Even though it is sad he has to leave Iran, to be honest with you, I'm quite happy to see Robert Tait leaving his job as The Guardian's Tehran correspondent. He is a great example of a lot of...

The Women Of Iraq

What would it be like, to be afraid to leave your home? Iraqi women experience this everyday. Many are unable to leave their homes, the closest thing they have to sanctuary in a War occurring in...

Frustrated with forced beliefs

I remember when I was a kid and every Sunday morning at 7:30 I would hear my dad walk past me and my sisiter's room. I would hope that he wouldn't open the door; I hoped that he would forget to wake...

Does Christianity Influence American Politics too much?

My main complaint about President Bush is his constant outward affirmation of faith. Not that I have a problem with Christianity, per se. Or even followers of Christianity (for the most part). But I...

Gloria Steinem and more

Thanks to another blogger - Elana Centor of Blogher and Wasabi Publicity - I learned last week about the Gloria Awards. To whit: The Gloria Awards honor women across the country whose commitment and...

Discussing the actions women and men took on to change the female's role in the United States throug

 Before we look towards the future in better the status of women in the society, we must understand how it was done in the past. Up until the mid-1900s, women were considered the lesser half...

women's rights and religious fundamentalism, part 1

For these crimes are not accidental casualties of war; they are the logical consequences of ideologies that clearly, in the name of purity of the race or of the holy creed, intend to commit these...