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Mother-Worship Mother-Worship

This is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on the women's rights movement and feminism, click here fo...

Mar 6, 2002 / Feature / The Nation

The Making of a Militant The Making of a Militant

This article originally appeared in the December 1, 1926, issue, inaugurating a feature called "These Modern Women," "a series of anonymous articles giving the personal backgrounds...

Mar 6, 2002 / Feature

Birth Control Wins Birth Control Wins

Two events which occurred at the end of 1936 may signify a turning-point in the birth-control movement in America.

Mar 6, 2002 / Feature / Hannah M. Stone

The Education of Women The Education of Women

In most of the discussions in relation to the improvement of female education, the objectors have shown themselves unable to rise above the utilitarian, or rather the purely mate...

Mar 5, 2002 / The Editors

The Feminist Crusade The Feminist Crusade

This essay, from the July 17, 1948, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on fem...

Mar 5, 2002 / Feature / Ramona Barth

What Women Vote For What Women Vote For

The question about the so-called "women's vote" is generally phrased: How will the women vote? The answer to that is too easy. Women vote just as men vote.

Mar 5, 2002 / Elizabeth Hawes

Fighting Pickering Fighting Pickering

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson says it's like this: If judicial nominee Charles Pickering is confirmed by a Democratic Senate, the Bush Administration will have a green ...

Feb 28, 2002 / John Nichols

Justice, Not So Swift Justice, Not So Swift

On October 31 Governor Jane Swift of Massachusetts pardoned five women who had been convicted and executed in the Salem witch trials in 1692. Well, better late than never--what's...

Feb 28, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt

Tulsa’s Shame Tulsa’s Shame

Race riot victims still wait for promised reparations.

Feb 28, 2002 / Feature / Adrian Brune

Big Media, Little Media Big Media, Little Media

The nation's largest media corporations are now poised to gain dramatically greater control over what Americans watch, listen to and read. A February 19 decision by the US Court ...

Feb 28, 2002 / The Editors

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