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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: 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: 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: Militarism and Reproductive Freedom
Commentary, January, 04 2003
Betsy Hartmann
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Lately, it seems whenever we need a reminder about why it is the U.S. should budget more national funds for the military, or take aggressive action in another small poverty-stricken country, the battle cry of equal rights for women is sounded by t...
Hartmann: White Supremacy and the Anti-Immigrant Movement
Commentary, December, 24 2002
Betsy Hartmann
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Trent LottÕs controversial praise of Strom Thurmond is kicking up a lot of dirt about the SenatorÕs unsavory past. This includes LottÕs association with the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, heir to the White Citizens Councils wh...
Hartmann: The Return of Relevance
Commentary, October, 29 2001
Betsy Hartmann
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Trying to stay afloat in the turbulent wake of September 11, I was full of fear like most people, fear of another attack, fear of the U.S. war machine, fear of racist assaults on Arab-Americans and South Asians, fear of further erosion of civil li...
Hartmann: Population Policy: Will Coercion Come Back in Vogue?
Commentary, May, 01 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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In February of this year the Indian government announced a new population policy based on a two-child norm. While social activists have welcomed certain elements of the policy, such as free and compulsory elementary education and improvements in h...
Hartmann: A Visit to Los Alamos
Commentary, March, 06 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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In January I made my first trip to New Mexico. My partner and I visited the ancient Pueblo cliff dwellings at Bandelier National Monument. Like many tourists before us, we were awed by the beauty of the Frijoles Canyon and the knowledge that an an...
Hartmann: What's In A Word?
Commentary, January, 08 2000
Betsy Hartmann
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Conservative anti-immigrant and population control forces are once again threatening to take control of the Sierra Club, one of the nation's most influential environmental organizations. A September 26 resolution by the Board of Directors changed ...
Hartmann: Women's Health Advocates Win a Victory in the Fight Against Chemical Sterilization
Commentary, December, 02 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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On November 13, the Board of Directors of Planned Parenthood of America (PPFA) turned down a motion from its own Medical Committee which have put the organization in the position of supporting unethical human experimentation. The drug in question ...
Hartmann: Cracking Open Crack
Commentary, October, 22 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children..." These are the words of Barbara Harris, founder of the organization CRACK...
Hartmann: Cross Dressing Malthus
Commentary, September, 23 1999
Betsy Hartmann
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October 12, 1999 has the dubious distinction of being both Columbus Day and 'Day of 6 Billion,' ostensibly the day world population will pass the six billion people mark.
