Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ Continues Tradition Of Creating Strong, Complex Women
12/18/09
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: James Cameron’s movies are more than big-budget, futuristic action adventures.

Online Posting Of Women’s Abortion Information Challenged In Oklahoma
12/18/09
CNN: Abortion rights supporters are extremely concerned about the intrusiveness of the questions, and fear that identities of women could be compromised.

Time For U.S. Senate To Act On U.N. Women’s Treaty
12/18/09
Women’s eNews: The UN’s global treaty on women’s rights turns 30 today and the U.S. still hasn’t ratified it.

Climate Talks: Clinton Promises Aid To Poor Nations – But China May Resist
12/17/09
Christian Science Monitor: Hillary Clinton said the U.S. could provide billions in aid to help poorer nations convert to clean technologies. But that’s only if countries like China agree to monitoring of their climate change efforts.

A Race To Win One More Vote For Health Bill
12/17/09
NY Times: The White House and Senate Democratic leaders seem willing to give Senator Ben Nelson, just about anything he wants to win his support of major health care legislation.

Feminist Silence On Schumer
12/17/09
Salon: Why no outrage over the senator calling a flight attendant a “bitch”? Maybe because it’s all too familiar.

Women Carry Corporate Success To Campaigns
12/17/09
MSNBC: Female executives are emerging as serious contenders for statewide offices.

12-Year-Old Says Rape, Security Guards Say She Wanted It
12/16/09
Salon: There exists a rape culture in which people are quick to deny or explain away a rape as soon as it’s reported.

Rare Gender Identity Defect Hits Gaza Families
12/17/09
CNN: There are an unusually high number of male pseudohermaphrodite births in the Gaza neighborhood of Jabalya.

Burmese Dissident Meets With Party
12/17/09
NY Times: The military junta in Myanmar allowed the opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, to meet with senior members of her party.

Al Qaeda Wives’ Club
12/18/09
CBS: The wife of Al Qaeda’s deputy commander, Mrs. Zawahri, appealed to Muslim women around the world to support the Mujahideen.

In Baghdad, Hemlines Rise As Violence Falls
12/16/09
NPR: Many Iraqi women say the return of Western-style fashions is a sign of returning security and freedom after years of war and sectarian tensions.

Lebanese Mother Scores Point For Women’s Rights
12/18/09
Daily Star, Lebanon: Barbara Batlouni became the first Lebanese woman to open a bank account for her underage sons independent of their father’s legal consent.

Finding Depth In Fela’s Women
12/17/09
NY Times: A short list of how the women of “Fela!,” the Broadway musical about the Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political agitator, do not see their characters as victims, go-go dancers, sex objects.

Palmer’s Kerry Weiland Named To U.S. Olympic Women’s Team
12/17/09
American Chronicle: Defenseman Kerry Weiland of Palmer today finally bagged a berth on the U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team.

American Will Attempt To Cross An Ocean In A
12/17/09
NY Times: Katie Spotz plans to cross the Atlantic Ocean without a sail or a motor.