Friday Femme Fatale: Race, Gender and SCOTUS

Lots going on this week in the world of women's rights - from hearings to confirm Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the passage of an appropriations bill that lifts a ban on Washington, D.C.'s ability to use locally raised funds to pay for abortion services for low-income women - there's never a dull moment.

Here are a few stories that you might have missed:

• Brave New Films shares part five of it's film series: "Women of Afghanistan"

• Lioness The Film asks: How did a group of female support soldiers-mechanics, supply clerks and engineers-end up fighting alongside the Marines in some of the bloodiest counterinsurgency battles of the Iraq war?

• The Washington Post publishes gender heavy articles this week with:
  • Fixing the Economy? It's Women's Work.
  • 'Jane Roe' Arrested at Supreme Court Hearing
  • Whose Identity Politics?

• New York Times details just how much gender matters on SCOTUS with the piece: The Place of Women on the Court

• Blogger Interrupted posts the provocative statement: Imagine if Barack represented his race the way Palin represents her gender

• Forbes made it impossible for all-male media panels to create excuses when it published this piece: The Most Influential Women In Media

• The AP reports that yes, women still have to be able to "do it all" in the article: Politics, family intertwined for women politician
  
• And then there was the most shocking news of the week: Brits Tell Teens Sex Is Fun
  

• Oh and prepared for an onslaught of cougarisms with the fact that Kim Cattrall a Sexy Single Again

• Some good news for women of the Middle East from True Slant: Afghan Prez Outlaws Rape (Finally)

• And then Jack & Jill Politics gets controversial with the piece: The NAACP Doesn’t Care About Black People