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Hartmann: No More Surprises?
Commentary, October, 18 2008
Betsy Hartmann
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It's October now and at dawn a layer of mist coats the valleys of Western Massachusetts where I live. I don't mind the autumn mist because I know it will disperse as the sun rises, revealing the charged colors of the changing leaves. The mist hol...
Hartmann: Beyond the Shopping Cart: Messaging Consumption
Commentary, April, 11 2008
Betsy Hartmann
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On the Oprah Winfrey Show two years ago, Al Gore’s upbeat message was that we’re not helpless in the fight against global warming. The camera rolls as he pushes a shopping cart down the aisles of a giant Lowe’s Home Improvement Store “to show you...
Hartmann: Hartmann Interviewed on Deadly Election
Znet Article, March, 15 2008
Betsy Hartmann
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ZNet book interview...
Hartmann: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control
Book, October, 12 2007
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Hartmann: Abortion and the Politics of Prevention
Commentary, November, 07 2006
Betsy Hartmann
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On November 7, voters in South Dakota will vote on a referendum whether to adopt the stateÕs draconian law banning abortion. Reproductive rights activists from all over the country are now converging on the state to help mobilize pro-choice vote...
Hartmann: Everyday Eugenics
Znet Article, September, 22 2006
Betsy Hartmann
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"Eugenics…is a scavenger ideology, exploiting and reinforcing anxieties over race, gender, sexuality and class and bringing them into the service of nationalism, white supremacy, and heterosexism…The verbiage of eugenics, the valor...
Hartmann: Gender, Militarism and Climate Change
Commentary, April, 10 2006
Betsy Hartmann
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As evidence of climate change becomes ever more compelling, the battle over who gets to frame its causes, effects and solutions will intensify. In popular as well as policy venues, whose voices get heard and whose don't will become a key political...
Hartmann: Too Heavy a Price to Pay: India's Two-Child Norm Hurts Women, Girls and the Poor
Commentary, January, 07 2006
Betsy Hartmann
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At the 1994 UN population conference in Cairo, 179 governments signed a landmark agreement that broke with coercive population control and embraced women's empowerment and reproductive health as the key to reducing population growth. In India, the...
Hartmann: The Testosterone Threat: Where Sociobiology Meets National Security
Commentary, November, 21 2005
Betsy Hartmann
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Continuing son preference and the widespread practice of sex-selective abortion of female fetuses in India and China are leading to ever more skewed sex ratios in those populations. This is certainly an extremely serious problem with many negativ...
Hartmann: Narcissus and the Mind/Body Problem
Commentary, December, 30 2004
Betsy Hartmann
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Maybe it's because it's the darkest time of the year, or the Christmas consumption rush when we're all supposed to be experiencing brotherhood and love at the cash register, or the horrific daily reports of violence in Iraq that make me yearn for ...
Hartmann: Girlie Men and the Great Democratic Disconnect
Commentary, October, 07 2004
Betsy Hartmann
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This summer Boston and New York hosted two pageants of militarized manhood, the Democratic and Republican conventions respectively. Viewed through a gendered lens, the spectacle of Bush and Kerry competing for strongest Male Warrior was hard to wa...
Hartmann: Bread, Roses - and Time
Commentary, August, 07 2004
Betsy Hartmann
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Maybe it's because I'm finally going on vacation that I can't help thinking about time, or rather the lack of it, the crazy speed-up of American life. In 1993 economist Juliet Schor's book The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure...
Hartmann: Conserving Racism: The Greening of Hate at Home and Abroad
Commentary, December, 11 2003
Betsy Hartmann
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The greening of hate Ð blaming environmental degradation on poor populations of color Ð is once again on the rise, both in the U.S. and overseas. In the U.S., its illogic runs like this: immigrants are the main cause of overpopulation, and overpop...
Hartmann: End of History: The Sequel
Commentary, April, 21 2003
Betsy Hartmann
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In 1989 as the Cold War came to a close, Francis Fukuyama published his famous essay, later to become a well-known book, on ÒThe End of History.Ó Fukuyama, a former senior fellow at the State Department, argued that human history may be directiona...
Hartmann: Moving The Peace Movement Forward
Znet Article, April, 08 2003
Betsy Hartmann
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As the U.S. army occupies Baghdad, the peace movement is faced with a series of strategic challenges, challenges we must face openly, and challenges for which there are no easy answers. We must develop political strategies that draw on solidarity ...
Hartmann: Normalizing Nightmares
Znet Article, March, 15 2003
Betsy Hartmann
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Recently, National Public Radio carried a story about how State Farm Insurance was introducing a clause in its auto policies excluding coverage for nuclear or radiological events. Although the commentator noted the absurdity - after all, wou...
