Why a Women's Liberation Movement?

Women’s Liberation Movement: The Second Wave

This paper examines some of the achievements and setbacks that the “second wave” of the Women’s Movement faced based on their organizational capacity. Women across the United States have the equality and opportunities that they have today because of the sacrifice of feminists during this period in time. However, due to a lack of cohesiveness during a majority of the “second wave,” feminists end...

A physiologist's views on the animal rights/liberation movement.

Many physicians and biomedical researchers still believe that the animal rights/liberation (AR/L) movement does not pose a serious threat to biomedical science in the United States. Indeed, some cell and molecular biologists regard the animal rights/research issue as a tempest in a teapot that will not affect them because they use few or no animals. By using the so-called alternatives to animal...

Abortion and Womens Mental Health

First, the methodological difficulties of these studies, especially due to confusing factors, not always easy to control adequately, such as the heterogeneity of women’s groups evaluated in regards to age, race, social status and religious beliefs; the presence of psychological changes or lack thereof, prior to the abortion of; the desire or lack thereof for the pregnancy; whether a woman can r...

Ushahidi as a Liberation technoLogy

Why “Animal (De)liberation” survives early criticism and is pivotal to public health

In 2016, the book Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned? was published. This article aims to engage with the critique that this book has received and to clarify and reinforce its importance for human health. It is argued that the ideas developed in the book withstand critical scrutiny. As qualified moral veganism avoids the pitfalls of other moral positions ...