Link-A-Dink

The Washington Post has a whole section today devoted to feminism and art.

Wet nurses are getting popular again.

More women are becoming leaders of Mexico's drug cartels.

More evidence that conservatives only care about unborn babies.

Bjork says feminism is a major theme of her new album: "It's sort of trying to put out some good vibes for the little princesses out there. There are actually other things than losing a glass slipper. I mean, part of it was having a little daughter and realizing, what are we telling girls? All these books out there about finding your prince. All these little girls, all they want to do is be pretty and find their prince, and I'm like, what happened to feminism here?"

The number of women murdered in Guatemala grows ever-higher.

How the Democratic machine keeps women out.

Complications from unsafe abortions are straining Kenyan health clinics.

An excerpt from Courtney Martin's new book, Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters

Dozens of girls were turned away from a high-school prom in Louisiana for showing too much cleavage. What is this, the Victorian era?

Merck applies to sell Gardasil as a preventive treatment for vaginal and vulvar cancers.

A new study shows that, when you consider both work at home and work for pay, men and women work an equal number of hours, on average... in rich countries. In poor countries, women do vastly more work.

AlterNet reminds us why poverty is a feminist issue.

Iranian Kurdish women give new meaning to the term "guerrilla girls."

World Bank policies are undermining family planning efforts.

A review of Ellen Bravo's new book, Taking on the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation.

Where hip-hop culture meets the Brooklyn lesbian scene.

In a New Yorker piece on how Wal-Mart is trying to woo liberals, one of the women in the class-action suit describes her experience as a Wal-Mart employee: "Kathleen MacDonald joined the suit after she learned that a male counterpart, who, like her, was stocking shelves, earned more than she did. When she raised the issue, she told me, “my immediate supervisor said, ‘Well, God made Adam first, and Eve came from him.’ I was, like, what? That’s when I decided enough was enough.”"

Arizon considers similar legislation to South Carolina's bill that would require women to view an ultrasound before obtaining an abortion.

Jess hits the high points from her new book in a piece for the Guardian.

And more on last week's Supreme Court decision upholding the Federal Abortion Ban:
Lynn Paltrow of National Advocates for Pregnant Women describes how this ruling will affect all pregnant women, not only those who choose abortion.

Why "informed consent" abortion laws are much, much worse than you thought... and how they relate to the "partial-birth" abortion ban.

The Freedom of Choice Act is revived.

Jill writes that this decision won't save fetuses, it will only limit women's options.

Doctors are pissed.

Dahlia Lithwick on Kennedy's creepy paternalistic language.

More state-level abortion restrictions to come.

ACOG: The ruling "leaves no doubt that women's health in America is perceived as being of little consequence." (via Ema)

Amy Goodman interviews the ACLU's Louise Melling about the decision.

How Ginsburg's dissent could provide a jumping-off point for abortion jurisprudence that's based on equality rather than privacy.

Time's totally inane take on the ruling... that both sides are too extreme, and that this decision won't matter much.