Women's Issues

In the Galleries - Currents: Chelsea Knight at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Bonnie Raitt

8 p.m. Friday, May 18. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Lez Zeppelin

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Women's Art History

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Daily RFT Reader on U.S. Constitution: Don't Forget the States!

http://www.mofreedom.org​Our post yesterday questioning whether the U.S. Constitution is perhaps too old for its own good -- based on a new Wash U. study showing that foreign countries no longer emulate it the way they once did in the past -- prompted a call from attorney Dave Roland of the Fr ... More >>

The Art of Feminism

http://www.mofreedom.org​Our post yesterday questioning whether the U.S. Constitution is perhaps too old for its own good -- based on a new Wash U. study showing that foreign countries no longer emulate it the way they once did in the past -- prompted a call from attorney Dave Roland of the Fr ... More >>

Gay Old Times: It's LGBT history to us. To them, it was life.

http://www.mofreedom.org​Our post yesterday questioning whether the U.S. Constitution is perhaps too old for its own good -- based on a new Wash U. study showing that foreign countries no longer emulate it the way they once did in the past -- prompted a call from attorney Dave Roland of the Fr ... More >>

Attention, working moms: Author (and Schlafly niece) Suzanne Venker thinks you are destroying America

http://www.mofreedom.org​Our post yesterday questioning whether the U.S. Constitution is perhaps too old for its own good -- based on a new Wash U. study showing that foreign countries no longer emulate it the way they once did in the past -- prompted a call from attorney Dave Roland of the Fr ... More >>

NYT Column Slaps at Local Anti-Feminist Author

​In yesterday's edition of the New York Times, columnists fittingly opined on dear old Mom. And Stephanie Coontz's contribution to the mom-centric page, "When We Hated Mom," starts off with a slap at St. Louis author Suzanne Venker's latest book, "The Flipside of Feminism."Venker's book, co-writte ... More >>

Susie "Sexpert" Bright on Being a Mom, Having Sex -- and Being a Mom Who Has Sex

​Susie Bright is a writer, sex educator, editor, feminist and all-around rabble-rouser. And she's coming to St. Louis! You can check her out at a signing for her latest work, the autobiographical "Big Sex Little Death" at Left Bank Books' Central West End location on Sunday April 17 at 4 p.m., or ... More >>

Win/Win: Drink Beer, Help Guatemalan Girls

Drink some beer, so we can go to school!​Tomorrow's going to be a beautiful day, and it seems likely you might want to drink a beer or five. If you're going to be doing that anyway, why not benefit a project that helps women and girls in rural Guatemala have better lives through education?Four mid ... More >>

Missouri Gets Top Grades in Denying Women Healthcare

Are we headed back to this?​Thanks to Roe v. Wade, the law of the land in this country is that abortion is legal. However, plenty of states are enacting laws that chip away at a woman's right to have the procedure. And in a piece yesterday on AlterNet.org, Amanda Marcotte ranked the ten worst stat ... More >>

More Restrictions on Reproductive Health Move Forward in the House

Not if the pharmacist doesn't want you to have them.​Today in Jefferson City, Missouri representatives added language to a bill that places more hurdles in front of women seeking legal abortions, in addition to fettering their access to emergency contraception.The bill, HCS HB 28, first came befor ... More >>

Sisters Doin' It For Themselves

Not if the pharmacist doesn't want you to have them.​Today in Jefferson City, Missouri representatives added language to a bill that places more hurdles in front of women seeking legal abortions, in addition to fettering their access to emergency contraception.The bill, HCS HB 28, first came befor ... More >>

Wash. U. Finally Gives an African-American Woman Tenure

image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

Save the Beavers! (Translation: Fight Violence Against Women!)

courtesy Save the Beavers​For the second year in a row, a group of Saint Louis University students will be organizing a Save the Beavers benefit party. And, uh, yeah, it's just what it sounds like: raising money for organization that protect women from violence, particularly rape."'Beaver' is a co ... More >>

Feministing's Jessica Valenti to Speak at Meremec on March 1

Valenti​Well, gee, now that we can vote and hold jobs and get (almost) equal pay for equal work -- hell now that we have an entire month to honor women's history (a long one, too) -- does feminism still matter?Jessica Valenti, founder and editor of the blog Feministing and author of the book ... More >>

Girldrive Author Nona Willis Aronowitz Visits St. Louis This Weekend to Plug Book at Left Bank

In the fall of 2006, shortly after the death of her mother, the feminist writer and critic Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz met up with her friend Emma Bee Bernstein for brunch."I'd been bombarded with my mom's colleagues, friends and students, people who had been influenced by her," Aronowitz re ... More >>

Lee Enterprises to Post-Dispatch Employees: We Need A Big Pay Cut

Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

Strong Enough for A Woman

Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

First Day of Winterling

Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

Ranting and Raving

Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Cindy Woolf

9 p.m. Saturday, December 23. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

X / Rollins Band

7 p.m. Monday, August 7. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois).

R. Kelly

Friday, March 10, at 8 p.m. Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard)

SONiA and disappear fear

Saturday, December 10; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

Guerrilla Girls Gone Wild

The art of protest

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Distaff Meeting

Where does women's health intersect with contemporary art? All over St. Louis.

Gyno-mite!

Inside Out Loud puts art and women's health issues in dialogue with one another -- and achieves amazing results

Belly Up to the Proscenium

The Playhouse at West Port Plaza offers a little deep thinking with your beer drinking

World of Hurt

The St. Louis Police Department faces a taboo topic: Domestic violence within its ranks

Femme of the Foment

SIUE celebrates Women's History Month with a visit from Gloria Steinem

Is It Sexual Harassment When One Guy Taunts Another in the Workplace, Even If Neither Is Gay?

Week of October 30, 2002

The Meat Purveyors with Belle Star

Friday, May 24; Frederick's Music Lounge

Nasty Boys

The women screwed by Rent-A-Center are threatening to take the company to the cleaners. But Ernie Talley and the rest of his Texas bubbas are trying to have the last laugh.

Best Hair Salon

Thu Do Hair Design

Bratmobile

Ladies, Women and Girls (Lookout)

Tiger Beat

Kathleen Hanna's new group is the cat's meow

MY NATURE: WORKS WITH PAPER BY KIKI SMITH

St. Louis Art Museum

Out of Order

When the case of a woman who claimed she was fired after refusing sex with her boss came before Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr., he didn't just issue an order. He let the world know a little too much about his politics and what he thinks about the "de