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16 Jun 08

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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15 May 08

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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02 Mar 08

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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16 Jan 08

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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13 Jan 08

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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06 Jan 08

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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26 Dec 07

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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21 Dec 07

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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08 Dec 07

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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29 Nov 07

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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27 Nov 07

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.

vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp - Preview

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