Women in a Neoliberal Order
Against The Current vol. 109
The Editors
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/428
Date Written: 2004-03-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2004
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13018
Feminists and historians of the Middle East were a bit surprised last year when Laura Bush made a radio address defending women's rights -- in Iraq. An unlikely champion of women's causes at home (The Economist of London, not a radical magazine, rates her “low” on feminism) from reproductive freedom, affirmative action or equality in employment to social services women need, Ms. Bush found in women's rights a convenient pretext for boosting her husband's imperial crusade in another country.