On December 11, Time Magazine named Pope Francis its 2013 “Person of the Year.” The award, according to Time, seeks to honor the…
A changing papacy?
women’s rights
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…
President Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests as part of an interview…
Where are the women priests?
With the new announcement that women will now be allowed to serve in combat roles in the military, Mary E.…
Martha Nussbaum on religion, tolerance, and feminism
Recently, David Johnson, Web Editor at the Boston Review, interviewed Martha Nussbaum and discussed her new publication, The New Religious…
Human rights and the Arab Spring
The New York Review of Books' blog recently posted a debate between women's rights groups and Human Rights Watch entitled,…
Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anumpama Rao---editors of Women’s Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent, a special issue of…
Nobel Peace Prize winners featured on PBS series “Women, War and Peace”
On October 7th, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, and Tawakul Karman, three women…
Call for writers for culture and women’s rights blog
The global feminist blog Gender Across Borders, in partnership with Violence is Not Our Culture: the Global Campaign to End Violence…
The Rubicon is in Egypt: An interview with Azza Karam
Azza Karam is the Senior Culture Advisor at the United Nations Population Fund, where she has pioneered efforts to make…