Studies in Prolife Feminism articles

Recent articles from Studies in Prolife Feminism

You say you want a revolution? pro-life philosophy and feminism.
September 22, 1995... I am a philosophy professor at the College of Saint Catherine -- a small, Catholic liberal arts college for women. The focus at St. Catherine's is on its nature as a women's college. I am glad that St. Catherine's is a women's college, and very glad to teach there. What continues to frustrate...

A feminist case against self-determined dying in assisted suicide and euthanasia.
September 22, 1995... Familiar clarion calls for choice, autonomy, and the moral right to control one's own body ring forth in current movements to legalize physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In the United States dedicated activists, some physicians and certain respected ethicists make a moral case for the...

Similar principles: the animal rights movement, feminism, and abortion opponents.
September 22, 1995... Movements with a Similar Agenda Like the nineteenth century movements to abolish human slavery and emancipate women, the contemporary movements in animal rights and prenatal rights move along parallel lines. Because similar moral principles are involved, the rational, secular, ethical...

Commentary: beyond Beijing's cue cards.
September 22, 1995... "Equality, Peace, and Development" were the themes of the 1995 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) Forum and the parallel Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW). At least, that was what the advance publicity proclaimed. Throughout Beijing and along the 50 kilometer route to rural Huairou,...

From Peek-a-boo to sarcasm: women's humor as a means of both connection and resistance.
September 22, 1995... There is a growing body of new research and literature on both women's psychological development and women's humor, but theorists in these two fields have not yet fully integrated their findings. Research on women's psychology has introduced new models of the identity-formation process and...