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Feminists are failing Muslim women by supporting racist French laws

By Christine Delphy Is mainstream French feminism racist? I co-founded Nouvelles Questions Feministes (New Feminist Issues) with Simone de Beauvoir in 1977 and have long been involved with Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (MLF) but increasingly, it’s clear to me that French attitudes towards the hijab and Muslim women are not just incomprehensible, but reprehensible. The …

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Greece: Women are paying the price for austerity

Next Sunday, Greek people are given the opportunity to have a say on their future. Are we going to keep accepting austerity measures, cuts, privatizations, worker’s rights violations and the dismantling of the social welfare state? Or are we going to raise our voices to a loud NO against the assumption that “there is no alternative” to …

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There’s a Reason Gay Marriage Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing

Are these two CULTURE wars” issues really that similar? Katha Pollitt Why are reproductive rights losing while gay rights are winning? Indiana’s attempt to enshrine opposition to gay marriage under the guise of religious freedom provoked an immediate nationwide backlash. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court has allowed religious employers to refuse insurance coverage for birth control—not …

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Greece: Without purple colour the coming elections

We are not a party in order to support any of the parties in the coming elections, nevertheless we are active citizens and very interested in everything said and done. We, the members of the editorial committee of the Mov and the Mov as an electronic feminist newspaper, simply wonder. Because we are very interested …

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After the Charlie Hebdo Massacre, Support those Fighting the Religious-Right

After the massacre in Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015, expressing indignation, as so many are doing, is not enough. A quick look at the English-speaking media shows that whilst many condemn the violence itself, they also assert that Charlie Hebdo courted (and maybe deserved?) a strong response from “Muslims”. Charlie’s regular cartoonists …

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