Slogan of the week

The first in an occasional series, Highlights of my reading while pumping breastmilk...

Writing in the Nation, Linda Gordon says, "As the feminist slogan goes, "Women deliver." I've never heard this slogan before and don't know who used it, but it rocks. Here's Gordon's explanation, which encapsulates a big chunk of the meaning of feminism:

In other words, when women control resources, the social gain is greater than when men control resources. Improving health for the poor is as likely to produce progressive change as any other strategy, because health activism these days requires challenging the world's most powerful and destructive
forces. Matters of the body are politically fundamental.