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Spring 2008 |
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 Count, Count, Revolution!
What do you do when no one will listen to your words? Throw out some numbers! From the Guerrilla Girls to poets Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, feminist fact-gatherers have proven that the fastest way to get mainstream media’s attention on gender inequality in art, poetry and journalism is to show them the cold, hard facts. More..
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 Book Review: Tiger Burning Bright
War, politics and love come together in V. V. Ganeshananthan’s Love Marriage, astory about a woman’s search for her family’s Sri Lankan Tamil history. American-born Yalini feels torn between Arranged Marriage and Love Marriage, but transcribing the stories of four generations of her family’s marriages helps her understand the vast spectrum that lies between the two. More..
See also the NEW Great Reads for Spring 2008. |
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Tragic Epidemic
In Senegal, a country where abortions are illegal and underground abortions performed by medically trained personnel can cost upwards of 10 months’ salary, many women turn to do-it-yourself home remedies of injections, concocted drinks and other risky methods. More.. |
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Who is Pratibha Patil?
India’s first woman president, Pratibha Patil, has been sworn into office for almost a year, but the jury is still out on her ability to effect feminist change. While the marginalized poor, tribals and rural citizens have been her past focus in social reform, critics say she accomplished nothing as a minister that was pathbreaking, or even helpful, to women. Patil has to power to make giant strides for women, but will she remain a pawn in the political battlefield of India’s male-driven bureaucracy? More.. |
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 Full Court Press
Fresno State University was recently rocked by a series of Title IX lawsuits: three women coaches and administrators won a total of more than $14 million dollars after suing for some combination of sex discrimination, retaliation and discrimination based on sexual orientation. Yet neither Fresno State President John Welty nor CSU chancellor Charles Reed has admitted any wrongdoing, and the university has appealed the judgments. More.. |
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 Truth Serum
As if having an unplanned pregnancy isn’t challenging enough, fake clinics posed as medical centers provide women misinformation about their options and emotionally manipulate them away from considering abortions. Now, a proposed bill in Maryland would force these “crisis pregnancy centers” to admit that they aren’t real medical centers. More.. |
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Brush with Life
Chicana artist Barbara Carrasco dedicates much of her art to challenging the hurtful names she was called as a green-eyed Chicana woman and exploring the subsequent effects on her identity. Stark self-portraits of Carrasco darkening her skin with makeup or eating peppers to prove she is a “real Mexican” question light-skinned privilege, while exuberant iconography of heroes such as Dolores Huerta honor under-praised Chicana activists. More.. |
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Why We Can’t Sleep
Could your estrogen levels be keeping you up at night? Insomnia author Gayle Greene asserts that women’s sleeplessness may be due not to common stresses but to the fluctuation of hormones throughout our lifetimes. From adolescence to menopause, women have more cause to take Ambien and fewer medical answers than men. 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.
Available at the Ms. Store. |
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