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Letters Keeping Score
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Victory Over Violence Birth-Control Roller Coaster Voting for Sanity Anything but "Secure" Short Takes Calendar	The Peaceable Warrior of Manipur Say It, Spray It! How West Africa Stops Cutting Short Takes
FEATURES
Women of the Valley | By laura Sydell The male geek is not the only image of success in the tech world. We Are the Many, Not the Few | By Sarah Seltzer Occupy's issues are longtime feminist concerns, so it's no wonder women are holding up half the movement. Blocking the Vote | By aShley lopez The vast array of new voting restrictions may affect your right to vote this November—and could change election outcomes. "Should My People Need Me" | By Gaiutra Bahadur Testing new freedoms under Burma's junta, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is running for Parliament.
DEPARTMENTS
Money Fair and Square | By Martha Burk Unemployment benefits should cover women as well as they do men. Media Singled Out| tamara Winfrey harriS Why is the media obsessed with the marriage rate of black women? Excerpt Four (Same-Sex) Weddings & a Funeral | By SuSan GoldBerG The author recounts how, in sickness and health, through love and tears, marriage equality brought a family together.	Book Reviews Erin Aubry Kaplan on Joyce Carol Oates' Mudwoman Liza Featherstone on Lilly Ledbetter's Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond Anushay Hossain on Fawzia Koofi's The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan Into the Future Diane Mehta on Anuradha Roy's The Folded Earth Laura Orlando on Mara Einstein's Compassion, Inc.: How Corporate America Blurs the Line Between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help Bookmarks Great reads for Winter 2012 DVD Watch Feminist films available for home viewing. Backtalk This Is What 40 Looks Like | BY DONNA BRAZILE Ms. celebrates a big birthday and looks to the future. No Comment