In ‘How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water’ by Angie Cruz and ‘Factory Girls’ by Michelle Gallen, readers encounter female protagonists who are smart, tough, hilarious survivors.
Women’s Issues
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
A post-Roe field hospital
We need to lead a revolution of mercy—and truth.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The sexual revolution has hurt both men and women. Where do we go from here?
Louise Perry’s argument against the sexual revolution raises a difficult question for readers: Given the fraught situation in which the sexual revolution has left many women and men, where do we go from here?
Posted inFeatures, Magazine
Hours of Need: One nonprofit’s holistic approach to helping incarcerated women and their families
Since 1992, Hour Children has aimed to prepare women during their sentence for re-entry into society and then provide support after it ends.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope: ‘Every time a woman comes in to do a job in the Vatican, things get better’
“A society that erases women from public life is a society that becomes impoverished,” he said.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Violence against women is a plague in South Africa
Advocates for the protection of women charge that rape is systemic and endemic in South Africa. Police statistics confirm this: There are about 115 rapes per day, a level that is among the highest in the world.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How I found healing after rape, an abortion and the loss of a very-much-wanted baby
Based on my personal experience, I have spent years trying to help women find healing, acceptance, reconciliation and hope after making one of the most excruciating and difficult decisions of their lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: What is a woman?
Kaya Oakes offers reflections on what it means to live as a woman today. This meaning grappling with growing older in a society and a church that both continue to prize feminine youth, fecundity and docility above all else.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
I was always personally pro-life but politically pro-choice. Now, I’m ready to drop the pro-choice label.
We now live in a “shout your abortion” nation, and a message that crass will never be embraced in more conservative parts of the United States, nor should it be.
Posted inFaith in Focus, Politics & Society
Why #MeToo is essential to understanding pro-choice anger
In the aftermath of sexual trauma, making a woman’s body the site of a legal battle is traumatic itself.