women's rights | women's rights
Feb.06.2012
Cairo -- The sick obsession with controlling women and baby-making is a bottomless well of weirdness.
In Egypt, and other nations, Indonesia and Turkey among them, certainly the Gulf States, doctors or midwives are sometimes asked to perform "virginity tests" to ensure that a man is getting a...
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Dec.10.2011
No Place for the Little Lyric / Poetry Off the Shelf : The Poetry Foundation
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No Place for the Little Lyric @ The Poetry Foundation
Should Adrienne Rich be the poet laureate of the Occupy movement?
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Dec.10.2011
Articles (click titles) on The Count @ VIDA:
1.) The Lack of Female Bylines in Magazines Is Old News – Katha Pollitt @ Slate
2.) Being Female – Eileen Myles @ The Awl
3.) How To Publish Women Writers: A Letter to Publishers about the VIDA Count — Annie Finch @ Her Circle
4.) ‘...
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Aug.11.2011
I just watched Eve Ensler's powerful new 12-minute video on TED. I immediately wanted to reach out to all the women in my life. And to all the men who love but are confused by the women in their lives. Please don’t miss Suddenly, my body. Watch it with a friend. Watch it right now. Watch it...
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Jun.17.2011
I’m going to miss Slut Walk Spokane today. And I feel bad about that. Because, after a lifetime of shame and denial, I would so love to march down our streets in my skimpies and proclaim myself a sexual female with pride and unabashed joy. I love sex. I enjoy it most in the context of a committed...
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Apr.04.2011
I've just completed my second book, 'Champions of Women's Rights - Leading Canadian Women and their Battles for Social Justice'. It is to be published by Formac Lorimer Publishers in Toronto, and should be out next month, my editor tells me.
Some friends have asked me repeatedly how I go about...
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Mar.16.2011
I'm a feminist. I don't mind admitting to that, although I have noticed that some people, including my own children, who are girls no less, seem to associate the term 'feminism' with man-hating and narrowmindedness. I don't know how this has come about, especially in this day and age where most...
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Mar.15.2011
Well, I had my first book reading last night at the Ojai Art Center with four other authors. Everyone was outstanding! I have to admit that I was quite nervous to get up in front of a good-sized crowd, but once I got into reading my chapter, I calmed right down and did the best I could at put a...
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Mar.13.2011
I'm very excited to have my first book reading tomorrow night at the Ojai Art Center in downtown Ojai. It's a local author event where five authors from the area will read a short passage or passages from their books. This is a sort of preview event leading up to the first Ojai book fair and writer...
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Feb.17.2011
The sexual assault of CBS reporter Lara Logan during her coverage of the revolution in Egypt is reprehensible. Her courage, for daring to make her story public, is laudable, drawing attention as it does to the contemptuous treatment of women in Egyptian society.
During the two weeks we spent in...
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