Ruth Rosen is a former columnist for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Her most recent book is The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America.
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Published in: 50.50US Presidential race: the feminist generation gap
Why is there strong support for Bernie Sanders from young feminists and a tepid response to Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
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Published in: 50.50"We will not be beaten"
It's twenty years since the US Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act which right-wing conservatives...
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Published in: 50.50Free speech: another weapon in the war against abortion in the US
In a dramatic turn of events last week, the US Supreme Court overturned a 2007 law that separated and protected...
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Published in: 50.50What will it take to end violence against women?
Twenty years after the United Nations declared violence against women to be a violation of their human rights, we...
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Published in: 50.50The invisible war: Sexual assault in the American military
Thousands of soldiers, mostly women, have been the victims of rape and sexual assault in the American military....
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Published in: 50.50US: why Women's History Month?
Every generation of little girls and women needs to learn its past so that it can imagine a future in which gender...