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May 16, 2008 | Peggy Simpson | Politics
NARAL PAC Endorses Obama, Sparking Controversy
It’s not clear what the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC intended when it came out strong for Barack Obama, three weeks before the last primary. At a time when there is much end-game talk and when one ...
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May 13, 2008 | Peggy Simpson | Arts and culture
"A Walk to Beautiful"—The Power of Women's Stories
It’s hard enough to get U.S. audiences to watch international news, let alone news about women, let alone news about a medical tragedy that has made two million women in Africa and South Asia pariah...
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May 09, 2008 | Rebekah Spicuglia | Feminism
On Mother's Day
Mother’s Day brunch at Jack’s Restaurant had a line out the door.  I was barely 18, weeks from graduating high school, but living on my own and bussing tables to pay the rent.  As my boyfriend—mi no...
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May 07, 2008 | Peggy Simpson | Politics
Obama and Clinton: Don't Count on Disunity in the Fall
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made clear last night that they are on the same page when it comes to turning out their voters for the Democratic ticket in November’s general election. Obama, cel...
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May 02, 2008 | Lia Petridis Maiello | Arts and culture, International
Pakistani Filmmaker Captures the Lives of Iraqi Refugee Children
Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is touring the United States with her latest film, “The Lost Generation,” a documentary on Iraq’s refugee children produced for Great Britain’s prestig...
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April 30, 2008 | Regina Cornwell | Arts and culture, Feminism, Girls
Eve Ensler's Spectacular Celebrates New Orleans Women
“I’ve been trying to free myself of Katrina’s grasp... With what I’ve gone through I should be just stark raving mad by now, but I’m able to go on.” These are the words of Herreast Harrison, Upper N...
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April 21, 2008 | Ellen Bravo | Economy
Women Don't Ask? No, Employers Don't Pay
Congratulations, working women! As of today, your salary since January 1, 2007, has finally reached the total earned by your male colleagues in 2007 alone. What’s more, this pay gap is all your faul...
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April 10, 2008 | Nichola Gutgold | Politics
Hillary Speaks Fluent Pennsylvanian
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are senators with Ivy League law degrees. They each have a strong, vocal spouse and can stump speech, debate and wonk their way around policy with ease. These t...
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March 31, 2008 | Alida Brill | Politics
My Mother, Hillary, and a Banner Day
My mother’s birthday was March 4. She turned 100, becoming a centenarian. My friends stop for a moment trying to do that calculation in their heads because the arithmetic doesn’t work automatically—...
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March 31, 2008 | Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. | Health
Today's Scarlet Letter
We like to believe that today, we have discarded Puritanical punishments in favor of a far more humane public sphere. Yet issues of stigma and shame remain powerful cultural forces that continue to ...
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March 27, 2008 | Paula J. Caplan | Health
The Mystery Suspect in the U.S. "Obesity Epidemic"
If you wanted to make someone feel helpless, hopeless, even crazy, one good way to do it would be this: Teach them that others will value them mostly for being thin and being nurturant, put them in ...
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March 25, 2008 | Alegre | Economy, Media
About That Writer's Strike at Daily Kos
I work full time, but my evenings are spent writing about and promoting Hillary Clinton on the Internet. Sometimes well into the wee hours of the morning. I may be just a volunteer, but I’m one of m...
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March 20, 2008 | Regina Cornwell | International
Deborah Kanafani: Invisibility Unveiled
Women in the Middle East working for women’s rights and peace are subjects all but invisible in the U.S. media. In her book, Unveiled: How an American Woman Found Her Way Through Politics, Love and ...
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March 10, 2008 | Nuala O'Faolain | Politics
What Hillary Clinton Accomplished in Ireland
In a story widely picked up in the U.S. media, Lord David Trimble—once an Ulster Unionist Partyleader, now a member of the Conservative Party—while speaking to The Daily Telegraph this weekend, dism...
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March 08, 2008 | Zainab Salbi | International
Please Listen to the Women of Iraq
I hadn’t been to my homeland, Iraq, since so many professional Iraqi women started to be assassinated, including one of my good female friends in fall of 2004. In February I traveled the country to ...
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