The War on Black Women

November 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
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Higher Heights for America, an organization working “to expand and support Black women’s leadership pipeline at all levels and strengthen their civic participation,” has published a new report, “Black Women’s Response to the War on Women.”  Lest anyone think that the war on women isn’t real, is only about reproductive rights, or is only about [...]

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The Myth of Male Religious Power?

October 11, 2012 By 2 Comments
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Stephanie Coontz is spot-on in her analysis of “The Myth of Male Decline” in the September 29 New York Times: Several of the authors of [recent] books posit that we are on the verge of a “new majority of female breadwinners,” where middle-class wives lord over their husbands while demoralized single men take refuge in [...]

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