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Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Michael Weiss, Cathy Young
Country: United States
E-mail: CathyYoung1@compuserve.com

The thrust of this brilliant essay is: Courts and legislatures should resist efforts to limit individual rights in the guise of protecting women as a class, and reaffirm the fundamental principle consistent with the classical liberal origins of the movement for women's rights: equality before the law regardless of gender.

How Social Security Short-Changes Women
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Author: Naomi Lopez
Country: United States
E-mail: pripp@pacificresearch.org

Advocating a free market alternative, Lopez states, "Contrary to conventional wisdom, the Social Security system is not a gender-neutral program. In fact, the system is designed to reward lavishly stay-at-home women and to penalize married women who choose to enter the workforce." (12/99)

Putting Sex Back Into Gender: A Tentative Theory Of Femininity And Sexuality
Source: Enlightenment
Author: Diana Mertz Hsieh
Country: United States

By objectivist ifeminist Diana Mertz Hsieh. Hsieh begins, "For the past three years, the issue of a proper normative conception of femininity has intrigued me, on both a personal and philosophical level ..." (6/96)

The benefits of Social Security privatization for women
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ekaterina Shirley and Peter Spiegler
Country: United States

Championing a free market solution, this study argues in detail that "the privatization of Social Security in fact would offer tangible financial benefits to women." (7/20/98)

PC feminism and the free market
Source: Friesan School
Country: United States

"Feminism (after C.G. Jung, F.A. Hayek, Ayn Rand, Warren Farrell, Camille Paglia, & Christina Hoff Sommers) ..." A fascinating analysis of the growth of PC feminism, informed by the insights of several free market theorists. Follow links to Hayek, Rand and Popper.

The ACLU and women's rights
Source: ACLU
Country: United States

A chronology of the ACLU's efforts on women's behalf. Includes most activities from the 1920's to the 1994.

The Sin of the Father
Source: Oakland Univ.
Author: Howard Schwartz
Country: United States

Subtitled: "Reflections on the Roles of the Corporation Man, the Suburban Housewife, their Son, and their Daughter in the Deconstruction of the Patriarch." Interesting critique of patriarchy.

Rethinking Betty Friedan
Source: American Enterprise
Author: Daniel Horowitz
Country: United States

Horowitz states, "Most historians believe that 1960s feminism emerged from events particular to that decade, but some have argued for a connection between the protest movements of the 1940s and the 1960s." He argues for a continuity and presents a critical re-interpretation of the roots of Second Wave feminism. (1996)

Status of women in the States 2000
Source: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Country: United States

Part of an ongoing research project to establish baseline measurements of the status of women in the United States. The survey focuses on issues that affect women's daily life, such as earnings, family policies, health and violence.

Venus at the ballot box
Source: Reason
Author: Cathy Young
Country: United States

"American women have unprecedented opportunities to pursue their lives as individuals and as adults... It’s too bad that, at the voting booth, they still face only a choice between a Mommy Party that wants to coddle them and a Daddy Party that wants to tell them what to do." (08/03/00)

Moses Harman, a male feminist to remember
Source: ifeminists.com
Author: Wendy McElroy
Country: United States

Feminists need to acknowledge and celebrate the men who have been valued partners in the fight for women's freedom. "Moses Harman (1830-1910) is the sort of social visionary whom historians often overlook...He also tends to be overlooked by feminist historians, perhaps because he is male."

Sommers on feminist deconstruction
Source: Dartmouth Review
Author: Christina Hoff Sommers
Country: United States

Equity feminist Christina Hoff Sommers questions the premises of and relations between political feminism, the equity feminism of the 1960s and the academic feminism we see in the contemporary academy.

How civilizations fall
Source: New Criterion
Author: Kenneth Minogue
Country: United States

An article with an interesting interpretation of the role of radical feminism in the decline of civilization.

Government is women's enemy
Source: ALF
Author: Sharon Presley and Lynne Kinsky
Country: United States

The authors conclude, "We need to develop nonauthoritarian alterna­tives, both as substitutes for government institutions and services already in existence, and as an example to others that voluntary action does work."

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