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: 50.50The war against contraception: “Women need to be liberated from their libidos."The new Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) requires all health plans to pay for contraception. Some religious...
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Published in: 50.50US Republicans and their “Female Troubles”As the 2014 midterm elections loom on the horizon, American Republicans fear they may lose a sizable female vote...
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Published in: 50.50The war on women: The newly invisible and undeserving poor in AmericaThe U.S. Congress is fighting over how much to cut food assistance to needy families. Everyone knows that women and...
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Published in: 50.50Why the relentless assault on abortion in the United States?
Americans have grown more supportive of same-sex marriages, gun control, immigration reform and even taxes on the...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the language of peace protest
In January 1968, young feminist antiwar activists in the U.S temporarily broke with a long tradition of protesting...
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Published in: 50.50The modesty wars: women and the Hasidim in Brooklyn
The recent cultural wars between the Orthodox Jewish Hasidim in Brooklyn, New York and their neighbours are really...