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Clinton women for Palin? No way

Gender politics
Memo to John McCain: We may be angry, but we haven’t gone completely mad.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | September 03, 2008

McCain has a double standard on Viagra and birth control

Sexual politics
McCain backed legislation allowing Medicaid to cover Viagra for men, while forbidding the federal health-insurance program for the poor from covering birth control pills for women.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | August 13, 2008

The deadly cost of ‘honor killings’

Human rights
The United Nations Population Fund estimates that 5000 "honor killings" occur worldwide each year, though they are vastly underreported.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | July 16, 2008

Bollinger’s rebuke to Ahmadinejad blows up in his face

Disagreeable
Stinging, emotional insults aimed at a guest — who was invited by Bollinger — teach students nothing of intellectual or social value.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | October 03, 2007

A bitter pill

Uncle Sam gouges on birth control for college women
In W’s world unaffordable birth control pills may become the “weapons of mass destruction” that we couldn’t find, until now.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | September 12, 2007

The problematic culture of ‘virginity rings’

Symbols symbols
Lydia Playfoot, a 16-year-old English student, regrets that London’s High Court rejected her request to wear a Christian “virginity ring” to school.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | August 15, 2007

Post fashion writer needs to get over Hillary’s chest

Double standards
I don’t see any articles about which side the male candidates dress on, or how well endowed they may be.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | August 01, 2007

Hillary and Pelosi’s strides mask a lack of progress

Gender 2007
Women like Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi are widely disrespected, especially in the conservative climate that has clouded the nation’s perspective since Ronald Reagan.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | May 30, 2007

Alito and Co. deal a bitter blow to American women

Choice
April 17 should go down in infamy as the date when the United States Supreme Court made it official: women don’t matter.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | April 25, 2007

Where’s the brotherly love for gays and lesbians?

Equal rites
I enjoyed Brokeback Mountain and thought it did a good job of trying to give the rest of the world a window into the joys and sorrows of men loving men.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 29, 2006

In 2006, women still get a raw deal

Gender
What reparation can women seek — like the 40 acres and a mule due slaves after the American Civil War — to compensate our 2000 years of discrimination?

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 21, 2006

Abortion battles
On the eve of the midterm elections, one church in South Dakota held round-the-clock prayer vigils imploring God to keep the state’s toughest-ever law criminalizing abortions on the books.

By: MARY ANN SORRENTINO | November 14, 2006

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