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INTERNATIONAL FEMINISM—AND feminist internationalism—have existed since at least the early 20th century, but forms of women’s organizing and mobilizing have varied over the past 100 years.  Since the 1980s, a new transnational feminism—encompassing Third World countries as well as the core countries—has emerged which requires explanation.

TALKING PUBLICLY ABOUT the virtues and hazards of the Geneva accords these days is not an easy task, as the topic is both highly emotional—rightly so, as a matter of utmost importance—and highly divisive.

A FALSE PEACE is no peace at all. A peace not based on human rights and justice will collapse and rekindle violence. At the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is the refusal to allow Palestinians to return to their homes and lands.  Yet though the Geneva Accord gives lip service to refugee rights, it allows…

Men’s Feminism: August Bebel and the German Socialist Movement by Anne Lopes and Gary Roth (Amherst, New York, Humanity Books, 2000), 261 pages, $52 hardcover. MEN’S FEMINISM SETS out with an important purpose—rescuing August Bebel, the leading 19th century German socialist leader who authored a pioneering text on women’s liberation, Women and Socialism. This is…

Bearing Right. How Conservatives Won the Abortion War by William Saletan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003) 327 pages, $29.95 hardcover. BEARING RIGHT IS a provocative account of how the mainstream women’s organizations and abortion rights groups battled to maintain legal abortion since the Roe v. Wade decision thirty years ago. The author concentrates on…

LIKE ALL WOMEN workers, Filipina workers’ experiences in the labor force are shaped by gender.  Tracked into the lowly-paid service economy doing “feminine” labor, they often have dead-end jobs with a secondary wage-earner status.  In mixed-gender unions and labor movements, their status is also secondary.

AE LIM YUN is an activist in Solidarity for the Abolition of Contingent Work, in Seoul, South Korea.  At age 30, she holds a doctorate in labor law and—a contingent worker herself—works as an instructor in labor law at several universities, among them Seoul National University.  She and her organization work with the Korean Federation…

THE GENEVA ACCORD was signed Monday, December 1, 2003, amid great media and political fanfare.  The fifty-page document lays out a plan for a presumed “peace agreement” between Israel and the Palestinian people.  We, the undersigned, consider this initiative as inconsistent with the prerequisites of a just and durable peace for the following reasons:

DECEMBER 13, 2003—He is at it again, and again it is working.  He is launching colorful balloons, and the whole world is looking on with rapture and wonderment. Ariel Sharon needs to divert attention.  His popularity has dropped in recent opinion polls.  The Geneva initiative has captured the national and international agenda.  The police investigations…

DURING THE FALL of 2002 I had heard the personal stories of two Palestinians.  One told me about her grandfather’s ancient olive trees that had been confiscated and then chopped down by the Israeli government.