Two books offer new insights into the last forty-five years of uproar against abortion rights, and the fight to hold onto them.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/birth-control-abortion-rights-roe-v-wade/
Fifty years after the founding of the United Farm Workers, farmworker activism has been reborn in a new form.
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/ufw-fiftieth-anniversary-farmworkers-rising-again/
What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts University of Chicago Press, 2013, 368 pp. The title of Mary Louise Roberts’s new book, What Soldiers...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/what-armies-do-women-under-occupation/
As Carole Joffe writes in “Roe v. Wade and Beyond,” legal abortion was a great victory for health, for women’s citizenship, for families and children. But the continued attacks on abort...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/roe-v-wade-and-beyond-linda-gordon-responds/
Scores of American universities have opened campuses abroad, New York University, where I teach, among them. (Others include Georgetown in Qatar, Yale in Singapore, Columbia in Jordan, and Du...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/when-universities-go-abroad-nyu-in-abu-dhabi/
Calling this year’s political fight about funding for contraception a “war on women” may be a catchy slogan and a strong mobilizing call. But as an analysis, it is misleading. True, bir...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/citizenship-and-the-right-to-birth-control/
On the blogs, in the newspapers, in restaurants, there has been so much discussion of the New Deal lately that the chatter could seem like that at a historians’ convention. Conservatives ex...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-new-deal-was-a-good-idea-we-should-try-it-this-time/
Linda Gordon on Jon Wiener’s Historians in Trouble
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/who-polices-scholarship/
Since the late 1970s, feminist theorists and scholars have been attacking, subverting, and attempting to dethrone the universalist liberalism of earlier women’s-rights advocates who spoke i...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-trouble-with-difference/
When people say “welfare” today, they mostly refer to AFDC, the program for single parents and their children. These single parents are mostly mothers, of course, and the current vilifica...
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/welfare-reform-a-history-lesson/