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 Ms. Magazine
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Spring 2008 |
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 Too Poor to Parent?
Did you know that black children are twice as likely as white children to enter the U.S. foster care system? Some would like to blame bad parenting, but author Gaylynn Burroughs points out that the real culprit is inattention to poverty. The greatest gift we, as a society, could give moms in need on Mother’s Day is social support—shelter, food, health care—not just candy and cards. more...
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 Book Review: “More Than A Little Naughty”
On a week when the media’s abuzz over 15-year-old pop music star Miley Cyrus’s sexualized photo spread for Vanity Fair, what better time to read about The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It. Authored by University of Iowa journalism professor M. Gigi Durham, the book is reviewed by Indiana U. gender studies professor Brenda Weber. more... |
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DVD Watch
Reviews of four new films for home viewing: the documentary Beyond Belief (two 9/11 widows make connections with Afghanistan widows); the documentary Iron Ladies of Liberia (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and other women leaders take charge in the African nation); the drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (a young woman desperately seeks an abortion in communist Romania); and the comedic Tick Tock Lullaby (woman seeks sperm donor so she and her girlfriend can have a child). more... |
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A Preference for Deception
In the second of a two-part series (see Good Ole Boys), renowned legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw exposes Ward Connerly and his supporters’ deliberate attempts to mislead voters into believing their initiatives are pro-civil rights and pro-women. She examines the current dispute in Missouri over proposed ballot language, revealing how vitally important it is that supporters of affirmative action sound the alarm on Connerly’s tactics of deception. more... |
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 Your Money and Your Life is a manifesto for this year’s woman voter and for male voters who care about the women in their lives. Martha Burk empowers the reader to cut through the doubletalk, irrelevancies, and false promises, and focuses directly on what’s at stake for women not only in the ‘08 election, but also in the years beyond.
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