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Women and the Religious Right in the USA: Jayne Egerton

This article about women and the religious right in the USA first appeared in Issue 5 of The Radical Notion. It is shared here with permission. Introduction Women...

Roe v Wade must stand

This was a speech given by Caroline Robinson at a protest in Edinburgh on 14th May 2022 in solidarity with US women whose abortion rights are under attack after...

Advice to US Women to Compromise on Abortion Rights Misses the Mark: Katherine M Acosta

Katherine M Acosta is a lifelong feminist, a sociologist, filmmaker and writer. Divided We Fall is her documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, a weeks-long protest to save collective...

What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls

What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls: One woman’s take by Callie Burt Biden’s Executive Order 13988: neither surprising nor good for women and girls On...

Democratic norms trump single issues: a reflection on the US election

Many women in the UK will have been watching the election coverage of the US in the past few days, the outcome of which has ramifications not only for...

Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford

Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime...

Health care is a human right: Judith Green

Judith Green is a co-founder of Woman’s Place UK, works in women’s health and is a former user of single-sex services for female survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Health...