May 11, 2012
Your move, Tina Brown. With a photo that was engineered to ignite a storm of online heat and noise, Time magazine’s coverdepicts a 26-year-old-motherbreastfeeding her three-year-old son, who stands on a chair. The story is meant to explore the growing trend of “attachment parenting“, preached primarily by Dr Bill Sears, co-author of the Baby Book, which encourages mothers [...]
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May 8, 2012
“What We Look Like,” with Anne Elizabeth Moore and Robyn Chapman, is a follow-up to “Ladydrawers’” look at women’s participation in the labor force. This time, we look at why the diminished economic status of women isn’t popularly considered, even beyond media’s gendered hiring practices. The representations of women that do result are a far [...]
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April 28, 2012
Egyptian women protest against the army’s use of violence against them in Cairo in 2011 after images of women who had been brutally beaten were circulated. Photograph: Mohamed Omar/EPA After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution? Mona Eltahawy‘s ‘Arab men hate women’ article sparks demands for a sea change in engagement between the sexes Martin Chulov in Beirut, [...]
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April 27, 2012
The ILGWU women’s basketball team at the Bronx Branch Athletic Club Photo Credit: Kheel Center, Cornell University at Flickr LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Cross-posted from On The Issues Magazine A major hidden ideology that runs through sports [...]
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April 25, 2012
Since the revolution, Egyptian women have much stronger and more collective responses to sexual harrassment carried out against them by men in the streets and male authority figures [GALLO/GETTY] Cairo, Egypt - This story was supposed to be about how wonderful it can be when artists, activists and intellectuals from across the Arab world and the [...]
Tags: Africa, Arab, Arab world, Cairo, egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Protest, Tahrir Square
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April 20, 2012
Women, Sex and S&M: Mainstream Media Totally Wrong About Female Desire — Again The real place women are getting spanked is in state legislatures across the country. April 16, 2012 | Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Spanking [...]
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March 23, 2012
Women Have Been Fighting Misinformation and Oppression of Their Bodies for Decades A new collection provides firsthand accounts of women fighting for control of their own bodies and health. March 19, 2012 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. As [...]
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March 15, 2012
Women join a protest against Yemen’s then President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Taiz, April 2011, enraged by his remarks that it was against Islam for women to demonstrate. Photograph: Khaled Abdullah Ali al-Mahdi/Reuters Naomi Wolf guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 March 2012 19.21 GMT Article history The “so what?” feminism plateau is familiar to us in the west: 40 years [...]
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March 11, 2012
. Why the War on Women? by Glenn Smith Remember when John Ashcroft put a drape over the bared breast of the “Spirit of Justice” statue at the Justice Department? The Republicans are now busy trying to cover their own political private parts after flashing a core part of their agenda – their war on [...]
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March 9, 2012
Liberal WhoresCall a Georgetown law student a slut, and the liberal universe goes into supernova. Destroy Somalia and Libya, or obliterate due process of law, and the same people just yawn. Attorney General Eric Holder “asserts that the president can in fact decide to kill anyone he wants, as long [...]
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March 9, 2012
That’s Enough Politeness – Women Need to Rise Up in Anger by Laurie Penny To get into the UN Commission on the Status of Women, you have to get past several ranks of large armed men. In the foyer, you can buy UN women-themed hats and tote bags, and pick up glossy pamphlets [...]
Tags: Hosni Mubarak, International Women Day, Lynne Featherstone, UN Women, United States, Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Vladimir Putin
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March 8, 2012
Slutwalk protests spread around the world last year in response to comments from a Canadian police chief. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Europe Perhaps as a somewhat humorous moment a woman was asked on a radio show if she knew what today was. She was told it was an international day related to gender. We [...]
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March 7, 2012
Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University law student, was called a ‘slut’ by shock jock Rush Limbaugh. (Alex Wong/GETTY IMAGES) We Need a Women’s Rights Reawakening by Heather Mallick Thursday is International Women’s Day. Women in Canada and the U.S. have not been in this much danger for a generation. Women have few public defenders [...]
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January 7, 2012
A man holds the Portuguese Playboy Magazine on July 10 in Lisbon. Penthouse magazine owner FriendFinder Networks announced a 210-million-dollar bid Thursday for Playboy Enterprises, publisher of the iconic men’s magazine. Photo Credit: AFP/File – Patricia de Melo Moreira Why Do Men’s Magazines Sound Like Rapists? Why does the language of young men’s magazines sound [...]
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January 6, 2012
Jean-Claude Mas, founder of PIP, holding a breast implant. He is reported to have admitted using an unauthorised silicone gel. Photograph: Eric Estrade/AFP/Getty The head of the breast implant company at the centre of an international health scare admitted using cheap silicone gel in his products to cut costs but told police he had “nothing [...]
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December 31, 2011
An Afghan girl who was tortured for months after refusing prostitution lies on a hospital bed in Kabul Dec. 31. (Reuters/Omar Sobhani) By Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) — A 15-year-old Afghan girl was brutally tortured, beaten and locked in a toilet by her husband’s family for months after she refused to become a prostitute, officials [...]
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December 27, 2011
A silicone gel breast implant manufactured by the French company PIP. Photograph: Eric Gaillard/Reuters Around 1,000 Dutch women have breast implants of the suspect kind made by a French company but sold under a different name, aNetherlands health official has said, broadening a scandal that could affect 300,000 or more women worldwide. Health [...]
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December 7, 2011
Following a rejection of his appeal, Katsav becomes the highest-ranking Israeli official to serve prison time [AFP] Former Israeli president Moshe Katsav has reported to prison to begin a seven-year sentence for rape and other sexual offences. Before travelling to Maasiyahu prison on Wednesday, Katsav, who was president from 2000 to 2007, once again claimed innocence, [...]
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December 2, 2011
Nadya Khalife The Arab Spring and the revolutionary spirit that came with it were viewed by women’s rights activists as an opportunity to make progress on much-needed rights and freedoms for women in the Middle East and North Africa. Nadya Khalife, women’s rights Middle East and North Africa researcher at Human Rights Watch Back in [...]
Tags: egypt, Hosni Mubarak, International Women's Day, Maputo Protocol, middle east, Tunis, Tunisia, womens rights
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November 29, 2011
Actor Robin Williams has described the meaning of the word divorce as ‘to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet’. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP Divorce is no laughing matter As Robin Williams and John Cleese have recently demonstrated, ostentatious displays of resentment are a grim thing to behold reddit this Comments (137) Sarah Ditum guardian.co.uk, Tuesday [...]
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November 29, 2011
Daniel Ortega‘s close relationship with Cardinal Miguel Obando has resulted in stringent laws against abortion [EPA] Dominique Strauss-Kahn would not have lost his job if he was President of Nicaragua. He would have been re-elected. At least, that is what happened to the former Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega. Accusations that he sexually abused his stepdaughter [...]
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November 29, 2011
Dan Abrams‘ “Man Down” Women Are Better At Almost Everything by CHARLES R. LARSON You have to hand it to Dan Abrams. He’s in his mid-forties, never married, and either hoping that his book will get him hitched or frightened to death that, if it does, he’ll never live up to his wife’s expectations. The [...]
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November 27, 2011
Nawal El Saadawi (b. 1931) – name also written: Nawal al-Sa’dawi Egyptian novelist, essayist and physician, whose feminist works have widened the boundaries of the Arab novel. Nawal El Saadawi’s central theme is the oppression of women and womens’ desire for self-expression. She first gained fame with her nonfictional writing. Her books have been banned [...]
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November 25, 2011
Photo Credit: AFP/Khaled Desouki LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Egyptians Confront Police Violence, Forced Virginity Tests, and Torture to Save Their Revolution 33 Dead, many injured as Egypt‘s interim military rulers attack demonstrators in Cairo’s Tahrir square November 22, [...]
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November 23, 2011
Women walk on a muddy road after rain in Kabul Nov. 9, 2011. (Reuters/Mohammad Ismail) By Christine Kearney KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — Afghan authorities are failing to enforce the law to protect women from murder, beating, rape and other violence and being sold into marriage and prostitution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. UN Assistance Mission [...]
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November 16, 2011
Ultra-orthodox groups have been blamed for a rising trend which has seen posters featuring women being defaced. Photograph: Baz Ratner/Reuters Jerusalem mayor battles ultra-orthodox groups over women-free billboards Female models erased from advertisements across city after religious lobby brands the images as offensive reddit this Phoebe Greenwood in Jerusalem guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 15 November 2011 19.16 GMT [...]
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November 14, 2011
Gloria Steinem at home in New York City. Photograph: Mike McGregor for the Observer Gloria Steinem: ‘I think we need to get much angrier’ Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century. Here, she talks about her opposition to cosmetic surgery and her [...]
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November 7, 2011
Photo Credit: Khaled Moussa al-Omrani/IPS Post Revolutionary Egypt‘s First Woman Candidate Begins Her Presidential Campaign When Egypt holds presidential elections next year, Buthaina Kamel is set to become the first woman in the country’s modern history to run for the highest office. October 31, 2011 | When post-revolution Egypt holds presidential elections next year, [...]
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October 26, 2011
In a Democracy Now! exclusive interview, we speak to Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Yemeni activist, Tawakkul Karman. The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling on Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to immediately step down after 33 years in power. All five permanent members of the Security Council back the [...]
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October 25, 2011
Photo Credit: Nebedaay/Flickr Did Egypt‘s Women Win the Revolution Only to Lose Out? In the eight months since the revolution, Egypt’s women have learned that the fight for their rights is only beginning. October 18, 2011 | Photo Credit: Nebedaay/Flickr In the immediate aftermath of this spring’s revolution, something new and unfamiliar happened in Egypt: [...]
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October 9, 2011
Barakzai says she will continue her fast until justice is done[Reuters] Unseated Afghan MP continues hunger-strike Semin Barekzai in critical condition as she fasts in protest against her disqualification over vote rigging claims. An unseated Afghan MP is in critical condition after entering the eighth day of a hunger-strike to protest against her expulsion [...]
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August 14, 2011
Abused Lebanese women also victims of legal system Published yesterday (updated) 13/08/2011 23:47 A Lebanese woman carries a placard in Arabic reading “a man is successful in dialogue” during a KAFA rally in December [AFP/Joseph Eid, File] By Khaled Soubeih BEIRUT (AFP) — It was only a few months after their wedding in Lebanon [...]
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August 13, 2011
Tunisian women rally to preserve gender equality Published today 20:58 Reporters from the new daily “Le Maghreb” work on an article on August 12, in Tunis. Around 1,000 women’s rights supporters rallied in Tunis Saturday to the mark the anniversary of a key equal rights bill amid fears gender equality may suffer if political Islam [...]
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August 6, 2011
Child rape is one of the fastest growing crimes in Jamaica [Photo: Thomas Devenishek] When a jury acquitted a Jamaican-born American pastor of carnal abuse charges in June, outraged islanders were forced to recognise that cultural norms seem to be promoting the sexual abuse of young girls. Just over two years ago, in June 2009, [...]
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July 26, 2011
Although Welikada is technically considered a ‘correctional’ facility, there are serious doubts about whether or not any rehabilitation occurs inside before the women are released [EPA] Monthly “visiting hours” at the female ward of Sri Lanka‘s notorious Welikada Prison are as traumatic for the inmates as they are for their family and friends. A tiny [...]
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July 26, 2011
For those interested in the cancer of the voodoo economic rhythm this editorial should be illuminating. But consider this. The US elite that wishes to rule the planet has been putting what it feels is necessary to achieve this goal for at least a century. What has always driven this march to hegemony is that the people [...]
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July 16, 2011
Earlier this year a house subcommittee held a hearing focused on sexual assault and violence against women in the military and at the academies [Getty] Sexual assault within the ranks of the military is not a new problem. It is a systemic problem that has necessitated that the military conduct its own annual reporting on the [...]
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July 14, 2011
A survey of 20 female students and teachers in Afghanistan found that 18 faced daily harassments on the street [EPA] My mother entered the house and pushed the door closed with anger. After getting a cup of green tea, she sat in front of the television as her children watched her with concern and confusion. [...]
Tags: Afghan National Police, Afghanistan, American Association of University Women, Harassment, Herat, People, Sexual harassment, Violence against women, Violence and Abuse, Women, Young Women
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July 11, 2011
Some 90 per cent of Afghan women face some form of domestic violence – many are forced into early marriage, kidnapped, or raped with no hope of justice [GALLO/GETTY] In December 2010, in a small house located in Sarbande Chakush village in the Juzjan province of Afghanistan, a 14-year-old girl named Aziza was abruptly awakened by [...]
Tags: Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan, Domestic violence, Human rights, People, Taliban, Violence and Abuse, Women
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July 11, 2011
15-Year-Old Girl Faces Life in Prison for a Miscarriage? Why Conservatives Are Criminalizing Pregnant Women The creeping criminalization of pregnant women is a new front in the culture wars over abortion. July 4, 2011 | LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via [...]
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July 5, 2011
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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July 5, 2011
Editor’s Note: Australian participant on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza Michael Coleman has been arrested by Greek Police for attempting to block their pursuit of the Canadian boat the “Tahrir” as it left port. Michael and Soha, another Canadian Flotilla team member, were in two kayaks beside the “Tahrir”. As soon as the boat’s [...]
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July 3, 2011
Asian markets search for a new model consumer after the American economy tanked, which has yet to recover [Getty] Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in global consumption for years to come. And that means that export-led developing Asia now [...]
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July 3, 2011
U.S. turns to other routes to supply Afghan war as relations with Pakistan fray By Craig Whitlock, Sunday, July 3, 9:54 AM The U.S. military is rapidly expanding its aerial and Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that Pakistan could cut off the main means of providing American and NATO forces with fuel, food and equipment. Although Pakistan [...]
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July 2, 2011
More U.S. troop deaths raise questions about strategy BY NANCY A. YOUSSEF MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS WASHINGTON – June was the deadliest month in nearly a year for U.S. service members in Afghanistan and Iraq even as the United States said that improved security in both countries allows it to reduce troops in those war zones. Sixty U.S. [...]
Tags: Afghan National Army, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Helmand Province, Iraq, NATO, United State, United States Armed Forces
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July 1, 2011
Preface: The following Guardian article reeks of the fascist drivel that has driven millions to despair. It also shows the totally dishonest levels to which those who consider themselves to be intellectuals will sink to support the totally bourgeois ideologies we are expected to live by. There are far more factors at play than some overtly [...]
Tags: Birth rate, European Union, List of sovereign states and dependent territories in Europe, Office for National Statistics, Population, Spain, Total fertility rate, United States
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June 30, 2011
King George III Won: Happy Fourth of July! By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/node/58333 Preface: It has always been a matter of concern that the US has for so long lived in an deluded state that it had gained its independence from the harsh and odious British rule to replace that with a Grand Dream of Republicanism. In this way the future [...]
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June 29, 2011
An Egyptian protester injured during clashes with security forces evacuated from Tahrir square in the worst violence since Mubarak’s fall. Photograph: Amel Pain/EPA The fiercest street fighting seen in central Cairo since the fall of Hosni Mubarak has left more than 1,000 people injured, as popular dissatisfaction with the military-led transitional government boiled over into [...]
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June 29, 2011
Daughters of the brothel Naseema was born into and lives in one of India‘s most infamous brothels but is now working to free trafficked women. Witness Last Modified: 29 Jun 2011 10:40 Filmmaker Gautam Singh explains how he came to make Daughters of the brothel. India’s handwritten magazines have long fascinated me. But while researching the [...]
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June 28, 2011
Politics can be amusing and still be serious. On some occasions you can get some insight into the nature of the beast from the beastly parts- like the politicians and the media who make up the travelling zoo that comes in the package you vote for. Here in Australia we have a completely unelected Prime Minister [...]
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Been waiting a long time for this. But not surprised. Are you? Think first a Monbiot point of view
The damaged units of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Photograph: AIR PHOTO SERVICE / HO/EPA How did the thinking go? Well he does seems to have been anti-nuclear, with good reason BUT why the change in opinion and then this? The answer is quite simple, at least for me, but trust me that [...]
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