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The W Effect: Bush’s War On Women

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In this unique and crucial collection, Katha Pollit, Patricia Williams, Barbara Ehrenreich, Jill Nelson, Vandana Shiva, and a host of other frontline thinkers, journalists, and activists employ wit, outrage, and cold, hard facts to expose the comprehensive incursion into women’s rights. Taking stock of Bush-era policies at home and out of the country, the writers in this book measure the gap between the women-friendly rhetoric and the deadly realities happening because of Bush era policies—what editor Laura Flanders calls “The W Effect.” Both a harsh reality check and a hopeful starting point for new action, The W Effect brings together nowadays’s premier feminist voices to provide state-of-the-art reports; fresh, empowering analysis; and engaging, provocative ideas for the future.

As their work demonstrates, women world wide have come under increasing attack in the new millennium, both literally, relating to war, incarceration, and punitive repression, and more subtly, relating to eroded rights and lost economic ground. The W Effect puts together the pieces: tax cuts and a marriage initiative for welfare recipients, civilian casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq and a militarized United States, Title IX under siege and macho political posturing for the media, and yes, Roe v. Wade threatened and the return of the international gag rule.

A necessary book for someone interested in current politics, for feminists of every age and genders, for the activist community, for general readers, and for students, The W Effect provides the actual information women need—and can’t find in the mainstream media—about their rights and their future.

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