Salon Newsreal | A joke too bad to print?
McCain made a terrible joke that newspapers would not print. It should let all women know where he stands on gender issues: " "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno."
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How my mother's fanatical feminist views tore us apart, by the daughter of The Color Purple author | Mail Online
Rebecca Walker has written the Mommy Dearest of the feminist movement about her mother, Alice Walker.
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Jump Cut no. 50
new issue of Jump Cut now online: Arab, Latin American, and Chinese media; arthouse and European film; Hollywood, U.S. television and independent video; horror film; audio podcasting. 33 new essays.
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FlowTV | From Cynicism to Sentimentality: The Rise of the Quirky Indie
since I found this year's crop of pregnancy and childbirth films distressing, this entry and comments seem apt
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Feministe » Take Action for Jamie Leigh Jones
US Congresswoman asks readers to contact legislators to get justice for this woman raped by US contractors in Iraq
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CWLU Herstory Project: The Online History of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - CWLU Herstory Project: The Online History of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union
"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." For many women of my generation, this was one of the most important documents and explanations about our selves that came out of second wave feminism.
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An End to Female Genital Cutting? - TIME
"Pakhshan Zangana, head of the women's caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that is the first of its kind in the Middle East — a law criminalizing female genital mutilation."
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International Campaign Against Honour Killings › News
killing women because family feels shame, usually about her sexuality or rebellion; some things are wrong, and cultural relativism stops here
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Femina Web Search for Women
has sites for seniors and for girls, organized around topics of interest
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Airlines planning to filter, censor in-flight 'Net access
"Some airlines will filter VoIP packets, others will use blacklists to block access to sites." Author decries airline censorship. My take? If some creep sitting next to me looks at porn, I'll announce it in a loud voice to shame him.
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A Companion to Feminist Geography - Google Book Search
social geography anthology oriented around gender issues, international in scope
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Feminist Geography in Practice ... - Google Book Search
social geography textbook
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Cressida J. Heyes - Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies - Reviewed by Ladelle McWhorter, University of Richmond - Philosophical Reviews - University of Notre Dame
Takes up issue of altering body physically, in various ways, and potential ethical stances toward this: she knows tyranny of norm but does not see transexuals, recidivist dieters, and those getting cosmetic surgery as victims.
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Communication Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs
links to sites and essays on cyborgs
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Stone Age feminism? - The Boston Globe
a good popular overview of what we currently know about Neanderthals, with whom homo sapiens co-existed for thousands of years; the two species were probably interfertile
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U B U W E B - Film & Video: Mona Hatoum - Measures of Distance
one of the very best autobiographical films ever: "Mona Hatoum's artistic statement in which she examines her position as an exiled female artist"
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Linda Hall writes on Katha Pollitt's new book, Learning to Drive. | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
I love this book's rage, honesty, and perfect prose; denounces pretentious left academic men of my generation; also Pollitt's wry look at herself and other women is witty and skewers our illusions and defenses
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Beyond the Veil
how French and US law and society differ on issues of separation of church and state, religious freedom, and belief and citizenship; historical context of French prohibition against Muslim schoolgirls wearing headscarf
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BBC NEWS | South Asia | India's 'pink' vigilante women
"They wear pink saris and go after corrupt officials and boorish men with sticks and axes." Activists in one of India's poorest areas.
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VoS: Voice of the Shuttle
Social sciences and humanities database now redesigned to be more efficient; solicits readers to become subscriber/contributors. Major portal.
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