Women's Issues

Planned Parenthood To Missouri Lawmakers: End The "Campaign Against Women's Health"

The Missouri legislative session ended last week and one of the many successes the state GOP is celebrating is the passage of a bill to add restrictions to the "abortion pill." It's one of several Republican initiatives that Planned Parenthood is now slamming in the aftermath of the session. It's no ... More >>

Abortion: Would GOP Bill Make It Harder For Missouri Women To Access Services?

It's the final weeks of the legislative session -- and Missouri lawmakers are ensuring there will be at least one more abortion fight. Planned Parenthood says that a bill that advanced this week could make it more difficult for women in the state to access the "abortion pill." The measure would es ... More >>

Missouri Catholic Conference on Anti-Abortion Bill, Rape Victims: "Those Are Difficult Cases"

One of the more controversial proposals at the Missouri legislature this year is a GOP bill that would allow doctors to refuse to perform procedures that "violate his or her conscience or principles." Critics, like Planned Parenthood, say this is "denial of care" legislation that could prevent rape ... More >>

Violence Against Women Act: Why Is Senator Roy Blunt Still Opposing? LGBT Protections?

One of the more heated battles in D.C. this year so far centers around the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, a measure that provides protection for victims of domestic violence. Congress failed to extend it last year, but it's now under consideration at the House -- after it passed ... More >>

Phyllis Schlafly Says Violence Against Women Act Promotes Divorce And Hatred of Men

Today in St. Louisans weighing in on national politics, Daily RFT brings you the always charming Phyllis Schlafly, president of the Eagle Forum and conservative activist with reliably delightful views on other human beings. Today's topic? The Violence Against Women Act, the one that Congress failed ... More >>

RIP Shulamith Firestone, U. City-Raised Feminist Revolutionary

Shulamith Firestone, a painter and writer whose 1970 book The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution was one of the seminal books of second-wave feminism, was found dead in her apartment in New York's East Village this past Tuesday. She was 67. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Ott ... More >>

Todd Akin: Ban Morning-After Pill "Totally For Everyone"

Updated with statement from Planned Parenthood representatives. The media has gone nuts this week over Congressman Todd Akin's far-right positions, as he prepares to take on Senator Claire McCaskill in November. Buzzfeed says he supported a right-wing militia in the 1990's. The Hill notes that he v ... More >>

Gov. Nixon Vetoes SB 749

In a decision anxiously awaited by both pro-life and reproductive rights groups, Governor Jay Nixon vetoed Senate Bill 749 today. The bill would have made it possible for any "employer, health plan provider, health plan sponsor, health care provider, or any other person or entity" to refuse to prov ... More >>

In the Galleries - Currents: Chelsea Knight CLOSES July 1 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

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

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

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

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 >>

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

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

First Day of Winterling

Ranting and Raving

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 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

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

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

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.

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