http://www.inthesetimes.com/archives/tags/womens+rights/ In These Times features award-winning investigative reporting about corporate malfeasance and government wrongdoing, insightful analysis of national and international affairs, and sharp cultural criticism about events and ideas that matter. en-us Expression Engine jessica@inthesetimes.com seamus@inthesetimes.com Thu, 02 Aug 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3283/justice_denied/ Last summer, I had the chance to sit down with Flozelle Woodmore in a drab, cafeteria-style visiting room in the Central California Women's Facility (CCWF), located in the small town of Chowchilla. At 39 years of age, Woodmore has lived her entire adult life in prison. All of her movements are tracked by her prison number, W-26904. Although she's long been classified as a trouble-free, minimum-security prisoner, Woodmore is still packed with seven other women--some with maximum-security classifications and serious emotional disorders--in a cell originally designed for two women. As part of the world's biggest women's prison complex, CCWF is home to more than 4,000 female prisoners, with roughly the same number across the street at the Valley State Prison… prison civil liberties womens rights Kari Lydersen Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3285/equating_stillbirths_with_murders/ Christy Lynn Freeman, a 37-year-old, Ocean City, Md., woman, was recently charged with murder after delivering a stillborn child under Maryland's as-yet-untested Viable Fetus Act of 2005. Worcester County prosecutor Joel J. Todd charged Freeman with murder and a district court judge held her without bail for allegedly performing her own late-term abortion. Though these charges were eventually dropped, Freeman's case illustrates the coercive potential of legislation that gives fetuses rights at the expense of women. Freeman arrived at Atlantic General Hospital by ambulance on July 26, bleeding profusely. She denied that she had ever been pregnant, but doctors found a placenta and an umbilical cord inside her body. Later, she admitted that she had given birth to a stillborn… abortion gender womens rights Kari Lydersen Mon, 15 Oct 2007 05:00:00 -0500 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3370/harassment_unchecked_at_army_hotel/ For active and retired military members and their families, the U.S. Army-owned Hale Koa Hotel in Honolulu is a place to relax in a tropical paradise at affordable rates. For hotel parking manager and veteran John "Jack" Lloyd, it appears to be a place to touch and proposition female workers, mostly Filipina--according to complaints filed with the military's Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) office and testimony from several workers. When Ernestine Gonda worked for Lloyd in the garage in 2004 and 2005, she says he constantly harassed her--rubbing her back, offering to take care of her financially and even giving her an Easter card depicting a man with an erection. Gonda, 39, complained to a human resources manager, but to no… gender military womens rights Kari Lydersen Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:00:00 -0600 http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3460/resister_in_exile/ When I met Haifa Zangana in Naperville, ILL., 30 miles southwest of Chicago, the former political prisoner under Saddam Hussen's Baath regime was working on a column but was having computer problems. The interview appeared to be a needed distraction. Zangana, who writes regularly for the Guardian, al-Quds, Red Pepper and al-Ahram Weekly, is also a novelist and feminist. She was in Chicago promoting her new book, City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman's Account of War and Resistance (Seven Stories Press, 2007), and visiting her brother-in-law in the suburbs before heading off to more speaking engagements, including one with CODEPINK in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 25. It was difficult to imagine that the petite, 57-year-old with smiling eyes once smuggled… iraq womens rights Kari Lydersen