Politics
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Rejecting the Rhetoric of the “Second Shift” and Insisting on Equity
By Sara Hosey At a recent meeting of a feminist group of which I am a member, a colleague referred to me as an example...
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Too Short and the Feminists
By Ron B. Neal What happens when a feminist, a group of feminists or feminism as an ideology engages one of the most explicitly and...
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White Picket Fences, White Innocence
By Sikivu Hutchinson Black children in America are never innocent. Innocence looks like Dick and Jane, our bright-eyed tour guides through the idyll of green...
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Pimps Tattoo Women with Barcodes in Spain
Spanish police arrested 22 suspected pimps who allegedly used violence to force women into prostitution and tattooed them with bar codes as a sign of...
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Brazil's Poor Receive Free Plastic Surgery
Brazil is the second biggest consumer of plastic surgery in the world. Cosmetic procedures have become so widespread that doctors are now offering them to...
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Native American Women Lack Access to Plan B
A report by the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center says women living on Native American reservations face major obstacles to accessing Plan B...
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We Be: Black Feminism and Embodiment (Part 3 of Can Black Feminism Be Quantified)
(This is the third installment of a four part series read part one and part two here.) Series Intro: “Contemporary Black feminism is the outgrowth...
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World Water Day: Clean Water Empowers Women, Girls
March 22 is World Water Day, but for many people around the world, securing safe drinking water is still not obtainable. While unsafe water effects...
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Clinton Opposes Afghan Peace That Ignores Women's Rights
Any peace deal in Afghanistan that excludes women or tries to roll back their rights is doomed to fail, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said....
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Moroccan Women Demand Reform After Rape Victim's Suicide
As women the world over gathered last week to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day, women in Morocco gathered to protest the death...
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Women Ask for Health Advice on Rick Perry's Facebook Page
Rick Perry’s Facebook page is drawing thousands of comments pointedly taking him to task for cutting off federal funds for women’s health programs because some clinics...
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Saudi Women Allowed to Compete in London Olympics
A Saudi Arabian newspaper says Crown Prince Nayef has approved plans for the country to send female athletes to the Olympics for the first time...
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Police Rescue 24,000 Women, Children from Chinese Sex Trafficking Ring
A year after the Chinese government started targeting human trafficking, the country’s security ministry reported that in the last year police had rescued 24,000 women...
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Women Pay More for Health Insurance
Women still pay more than men for the same health insurance coverage, according to new research and data from online brokers. While new health care...
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Important Record for Female Congressional Rep
Now in her fifth decade of public service, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) has been in office long enough to see many milestones come and go....
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Personhood For Women: Is this Personal Enough?
By Soraya Chemaly Melissa McEwan recently started a Personhood for Women petition suggesting that “a person identifying as a woman and/or having a uterus shall retain all of the full,...
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Who’s going to sing a black boys’ song?
For Trayvon, Michael and Martin, and all other black boys sable mappings cover him like an ethno-alien cartogram dipped deeply and precisely in ebony...
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Coming Into Consciousness
By Miani Giron In the three years that I’ve been involved in the Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) my awareness and outlook on social issues have...