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May 27, 2008 | Jennifer Pelly |
Feminism
At the Gloria Awards, Feeling the Promise of My Generation
I walk past a fancy New York hotel every day, on the way from my dorm at Fordham College at Lincoln Center to the subway at Columbus Circle. But on May 21st, I actually had the opportunity to go ins...
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Swanee Hunt Tells Congress That Women Are Essential to Peace Efforts
For Swanee Hunt, chair of the Hunt Alternatives Fund and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, women must be allowed to function as peacemakers in crisis spots around the world. She testified on Capito...
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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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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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From Superdome to SUPERLOVE—V-Day at 10
In 1996, when Eve Ensler premiered The Vagina Monologues at a small performance space in downtown New York, she received the type of response playwrights dream about: critical acclaim, an Obie award...
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Is Primary Season Good for Feminism?
For liberals and progressives, the presidential primary season of 2008 is a breathtaking moment. Historic "firsts" are represented by the candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama; add in John...
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Invisible Woman
Our national conversation is a messy collision of race and gender, with ageism and the questionable state of our media tossed in as collateral damage.
The 2008 presidential race is making us think...
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Women Are Never Front-Runners
THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6. Herself the daughter of a white Ameri...
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The Four Solstice Miracles
The last year I sent Christmas cards was 1968: a plain, black-bordered card, mourning the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy assassinations and the ongoing Vietnam War, urging friends to don...
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The GreenStone Story—Radio That Talked to Women
On September 12, 2006 GreenStone Media threw a star-studded soiree for the official, public launch of its female-targeted radio network at New York City’s Museum of Television and Radio. Named promi...
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WMC Exclusive: A Report from Freedom on Our Own Terms
The past, present and future of feminism converged over the weekend in New York City to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first, and only, federally funded National Women's Conference. More th...
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Sexual Harassment—What’s Changed Since the Hill/Thomas Hearings?
One thing that definitely hasn’t changed since Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during the October 1991 hearings that confirmed his seat on the Supreme Court: Thomas is still ...
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Ms. Memories
It is always stunning to me to realize that an event that still lives in my contemporary memory actually took place decades ago; so when I was invited to a 35th anniversary celebration for Ms. Magaz...
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Bucking an Anti-Terror Law
He announced in Tagalo: “This is serious. You are with the Taliban.” The roomful of people at the airport in Manila glanced at us askance. I wished that the Taliban would discover the Philippines gove...
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Title IX—35 Years Later
When, 35 years ago this past June, Richard Nixon signed into law the Educational Amendments of 1972, no one paid much attention to a short section on gender equity that has become popularly known as...
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Opting for Family-Friendly Policies
In a recent article and a follow-up blog on women’s work patterns, two Washington Post writers cling to the traditional media framing of the difficult options facing a mother as being within the rea...
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Brenda's Story
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Houma women feel they must be the strong ones. I had to tell people they had a right to feel bad. —Brenda Dardar Robichaux, principal chief of the United Houma Nation and founder of the Un...
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New Study Explores the Aftermath for Women
Some women displaced by Hurricane Katrina have had to choose between finding basic shelter and guarding their personal safety.
Of the estimated 142,000 New Orleans apartments or houses destroyed b...
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A Modest Proposal . . .
. . . to the Young Man on the Plane from Los Angeles to Seattle who said of the movie that most passengers—male and female—voted to watch, “I don’t watch chick flicks!”
So what exactly is a “chick...
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Women’s eNews Five Years Later
When Rita Henley Jensen arrived in New York City in 1977 and enrolled in Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she had no idea how difficult it would be to get her stories about women...
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A Massive Effort Pays Off—N.Y. Anti-Trafficking Law
Earlier this month, Governor Eliot Spitzer, flanked by New York state legislators, signed into law the strongest state anti-trafficking legislation in the country. Depending on the source—including ...
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New Study Finds Abysmally Few Minority and Women Owned Radio Stations
In 1976, the U.S. Court of Appeals advised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it should begin to include race as a factor in deciding which applicants to approve licenses for broadcast...
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The Thinking Woman’s Theater—Mary-Mitchell Campbell
I first saw Company by Stephen Sondheim back in the 70s, when Elaine Stritch with her alcoholic rasp was singing “Here’s to the Ladies Who Lunch” and the whole show had a snooty, misogynistic qualit...
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Jordanian Journalist Breaks Taboos Campaigning Against Violence
Dua Khalil is stoned to death in Iraq for being seen with a man of another religion. A woman is shot dead in Jordan after her photo appears on her brother’s friend’s cellphone. Muqadas Bibi’s throat...
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Looking to Congress for Justice on Wage Bias
Key congressional Democrats plan to take up the challenge by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to overturn what she called the court’s “parsimonious reading” of civil rights laws banning wag...