Posts Tagged ‘sexism’

The Devil Made ‘Em Do It: Social Crisis and the Misuse of Faith in America

June 1, 1999, filed under Essay Archive; No Comments.
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Published as a ZNet Commentary, June 1, 1999 I go through airports about two hundred times a year. As such, I overhear lots of comments from other travelers. Usually they’re of a particularly banal sort, screamed over a cell phone that seems permanently attached to the ear of one of a few thousand interchangeable corporate [...]

Is Sisterhood Conditional?: White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action

September 23, 1998, filed under Essay Archive; 7 Comments.
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Published in the National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Fall 1998, 10:3 Despite the significant benefits to white women from affirmative action programs in education, employment, and contracting; and despite the likelihood that gender discrimination, like its racial counterpart, would intensify in the absence of these programs, white women have been noticeably absent from the front [...]

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