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June 28, 2011 | Marcia G. Yerman | International
Yanar Mohammed—Iraqi Women's Vigilant Champion
The democratic spirit of the Arab Spring uprisings is alive and well in the determination of women protesters in Iraq, who are seeing their rights slip away under the current administration.
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June 21, 2011 | Catherine Epstein | Violence against women
Fairness for Defendants Who Survive Domestic Violence
New legislation is before the New York State legislature that would transform sentencing rules for those convicted of violent crimes against their abusers.
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June 17, 2011 | Amy Baker | Economy
Tearing Down the Wealth of Women
The author, a doctoral candidate at CUNY Graduate Center whose research centers on gender and wealth, writes about the hit women are taking in mortgage foreclosures
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June 13, 2011 | Marianne Schnall | International, Violence against women
Peace Laureates Take On the War on Women
Members of the Nobel Women's Initiative are marshaling their collective wisdom and experience to tackle the challenge of ending rape as a weapon of war.
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June 08, 2011 | Patricia Sullivan | Media
Jill Abramson—A Breakthrough at the NY Times, Decades in the Making
The women who launched the fight for women's advancement at the New York Times enjoy the moment.
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June 07, 2011 | Emily Wilson | Arts and culture, Health, International, LGBTQIA
Many Roads to Their Truth—The Topp Twins
In what singer-songwriter Billy Bragg calls their "anarchist variety act," the Topp Twins expand their loyal following beyond New Zealand's borders.
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June 03, 2011 | Elayne Clift | Economy, Health, Politics
The Nation's Moral Bankruptcy Crisis
The country may be emerging slowly from fiscal crisis, but Elayne Clift writes that there is no end to moral bankruptcy in the United States.
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May 31, 2011 | Kate McCormack | Economy, Education
The Feminization of the College Degree?
College students are graduating this year with record debt, and women, who constitute most of the graduates, struggle for financial independence.
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May 25, 2011 | Merav Michaeli | International, Media, Religion
Now You See Them, Now You Don't
Israeli journalist Merav Michaeli explains why a Brooklyn newspaper recently removed Hillary Clinton from a famous photograph: another case of Photoshop in service to the patriarchy.
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May 23, 2011 | Robin Morgan | Feminism, Media, Robin Morgan
When Bad News is Good News—Notes of a Feminist News Junkie
WMC Cofounder Robin Morgan on surrealism and sexual predators.
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May 13, 2011 | Rosalie Maggio | Feminism, LGBTQIA
Kate Swift, Feminist Wordsmith, 1923 to 2011
Award winning author and creator of WMC's "Hot Button Words" series Rosalie Maggio recalls the journalist and activist who alerted the modern women's movement to the dangers of sexist language.
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May 11, 2011 | Noushin Darya Framke | International
Osama Is Dead! Will the Healing Begin?
Iranian-American writer Noushin Darya Framke: it's time to move on from the "war on terror."
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May 05, 2011 | Merav Michaeli | International, Politics, Violence against women
Rape in High Places
Israeli journalist and women's rights activist Merav Michaeli analyzes an iniquitous sense of entitlement among the leaders of nations—and women's resistance.
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May 03, 2011 | Joyce McFadden | Feminism
Mother-Daughter Bonds—Realizing their Power
Psychotherapist and author Joyce McFadden found some surprising results when she asked women to reflect on sexuality and raising daughters.
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April 29, 2011 | Maria Yatskova-Ibrahimova | International
Russia’s Image of Woman—In a Country of Extremes
The filmmaker of a documentary about three women in a Siberian prison and a yearly May Day beauty pageant writes about the changing roles and images of women in Russia.
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