WMC News & Features
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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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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March 05, 2008 Politics
Clinton Claims She Has Turned a Corner
Hillary Clinton reassembled much of her core constituency to win three of four contests Tuesday for the Democratic presidential nomination, including the big prizes of Ohio and Texas. Barack Obama w...
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March 04, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Talking to Voters in Texas—a State Clinton Knows Well
With the polls tightening in both Texas and Ohio, turnout in Hispanic and black communities is seen as a crucial factor in whether Hillary Clinton survives for another day or Barack Obama extends hi...
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Premiere Dame Worries Sarkozy Constituents
She’s a former model turned pop star and her list of exes includes Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Donald Trump. No, she’s not the star of a new reality TV show—although you could be forgiven for thin...
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February 27, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Politics
In Search of the Real News in the Primary Coverage
It was perhaps surprising to hear a presidential candidate reference the irreverent comedy workhorse, Saturday Night Live, in a nationally televised debate—but for those who’ve been tracking Hillary...
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February 25, 2008 | Nichola Gutgold |
Politics
Women Gain With Hillary Clinton's Run
As Hillary Clinton grapples about how to re-energize her campaign and regain her momentum, pundits are already opining about what her race for the White House means for future Madam President aspira...
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February 21, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Clinton and Obama Face Off Again in Texas Debate
Hillary Clinton finds herself in a Catch 22 as she approaches the make-or-break Texas and Ohio primaries.
Normally, a politician trying to check an opponent’s surge will go negative to alert voters...
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February 19, 2008 | Sara Voorhees |
Arts and culture
Geena Davis Forum-Searching the Cells for Girl Mice and Ninjas
Geena Davis was watching preschool TV shows and children’s videos with her two-year-old daughter when she began to wonder: where were the girls? Where were the animated girl mice, the girl ninjas, ...
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February 15, 2008 | Laura DeLuca |
International
Lost Girls of Sudan
At a Colorado natural foods store, Rose Lokwang briskly arranges the salad bar. “Can you imagine that there are twenty-two organic items and forty-four conventional items in the salad bar alone?” sh...
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February 13, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
In Potomac Primaries, Obama Gains with Clinton Core Voters
Barack Obama not only scored convincing victories in the Potomac Primaries Tuesday, he ate into Hillary Clinton’s core constituencies of women, older voters and Latinos.
That raises questions abou...
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February 11, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Politics
Clinton Goes to New Campaign Manager
It wasn’t precisely a shock—word had been circulating for some time that a shake-up was imminent in the Clinton ranks. What wasn’t certain was who would win the battle for final say: the women hired...
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February 08, 2008 | Carol Jenkins |
Politics
How the Media, Once Again, Got It Wrong
The journalistic defense on the day after Super Tuesday, when once again media awoke red-faced at its miscalculations, was that the Obama story is just too good a story not to fall for.
That’s why...
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February 06, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
With Hard Work, Clinton Holds Her Own on Super Tuesday
The political and media hype about the Kennedy family’s anointment of Senator Barack Obama eclipsed the Clinton campaign’s boots-on-the-ground organizational work in the 22 states with Democratic pr...
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February 02, 2008 | Robin Morgan |
Politics
Goodbye To All That (#2)
“Goodbye To All That” was Robin Morgan's (in)famous 1970 essay breaking free from a politics of accommodation especially affecting women. During her decades in civil-rights, anti-war, and contemporary women’s movements, she's avoided writing another specific “Goodbye . . .” But not since the suffrage struggle have two communities—joint conscience-keepers of this country—been so set in competition, as the contest between Hillary Rodham Clinton (HRC) and Barack Obama (BO) unfurls. So...
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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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January 28, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Obama Gains Momentum vs. Clinton&Clinton
Barack Obama clobbered Hillary Clinton in South Carolina partly by assiduous grass roots organizing—getting out his base and expanding it—and by pushing back against the dual team of Clinton&Cli...