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The Glamorous Lure of Hollywood Violence
Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised, the author suggests, when citizens see themselves as heroic while committing mass murder.
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Nancy Pelosi on her 25 Years in Congress
The House minority leader reflects on her battles to combat AIDS/HIV and improve women's health over the years, and on women's role in a polarized Congress.
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The Left's Love for the Feisty Nun
The author, former president of Catholics for Choice, questions the wisdom of progressives who glorify "brave" nuns under Vatican attack.
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August 14, 2012 | Lori Perkins |
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Plunging Necklines, Helen Gurley Brown, and Me
Legendary Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown died at age 90 August 13, 2012, in New York City. Book publisher Lori Perkins here remembers an icon.
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In Awe of Teen Olympians
The author, herself a young athlete, wonders how the young Olympians can accomplish so much with everybody in the world looking on—and commenting on their every move.
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Feel Like Letting Your Geek Flag Fly?
Previously male-dominated pursuits relating to science and technology are increasingly the domain of proudly geeky women, who are gathering in Seattle for a one-of-a-kind convention.
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Treaty to Control Arms Trade Derailed For Now
The author, secretary-general of Parliamentarians for Global Action, explains how pre-election timidity has caused the United States to stymie an international effort to regulate the dangerous arms trade industry.
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Rashida Jones Creates a Thinking Woman's Romantic Comedy
With partner Will McCormack, Rashida Jones writes a role for herself that defies the clichés of the genre, in Celeste and Jesse Forever, a film which opens today in New York and Los Angeles.
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Missing the ‘Big Story’–on Purpose
This journalist finds that the essential story is the one occurring after the national media leaves a neighborhood in the news.
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Egyptians Mobilize Against Sexual Harassment
In Cairo, performers and artists take to the streets to make them safe for women.
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Feeling American in Paris
As an African American, multi-media journalist Mary C. Curtis enjoyed a welcoming interest among the French—a respect for black culture too often missing back home.
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Life in Lady Writer Heaven
Solitude in a "cottage-of-one's-own" came to this writer with some unexpected challenges.
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Filmmakers Find Surprises at an Islamic School for Girls in Syria
Airing this week on PBS, "The Light in Her Eyes" portrays a religious teacher pursuing a complicated set of goals to enrich her students' lives.
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If Women Ran Hollywood . . . 2012
The author of annual studies of women working in film and prime-time TV updates a classic consciousness-raising article as a 2012 reality check.
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Nuns and Virgins
With the republication of her novel set in the 1950s, Caryl Rivers considers the nuns who taught her and those who are still today the heart of the Catholic Church.
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Stopping Traffic
The worldwide child sex industry has set up shop in the United States. Mary Ann Swissler asked advocates what it would take to stop it.
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Women’s Magazines and the Cult of Hypocrisy
This week, Seventeen magazine promised to publish un-photoshopped images of real girls, finally responding to 14-year-old SPARK activist Julia Bluhm's campaign. Such pressure must continue argues author Laura Bates.
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Katniss and Merida—Year of the Heroic Archer?
Having consulted Geena Davis, who has played her share of strong female characters, the author asks, are two successful female-driven action movies released in one year a sign of good times to come for heroic women on screen?
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Nora Ephron—An Appreciation
Author M. G. Lord knew Nora Ephron socially, but appreciated her most through Ephron's essays. She writes about why they've had only the best influence on her own writing.
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UK Moves to Criminalize Forced Marriage
Forced marriage, an oppression particularly targeting girls in South Asian cultures, must be addressed by Western governments as well, argues author Shiuan Butler.
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"Having it All?"—The Wrong Question for Most Women
As it has done at least once a decade for the past 40 years, the media seems intent on pitting women against each other in a "Having it All" debate about work inside and outside the home. Author and organizer Ellen Bravo explains why the discussion defies reality.
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“We Are the Girls from Seton High”
Overcoming her ambivalence, multi-media journalist Mary C. Curtis finds comfort and acceptance at her high school reunion.
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Burmese Nobel Laureate after 21 Years
The author recalls her time in Burma just before the military coup that kept Aung San Suu Kyi from accepting her Nobel Peace Prize for two decades.
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Ms. Is Celebrated in the City of its Birth
Four decades after its birth as the nation's first feminist mass-market magazine, Ms. was honored this week by the New York City Council. Shelby Knox writes of its continuing advocacy.
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Women of the Roundtable
A discussion in Washington, D.C., last week brought together women representing the necessary elements to drive forward the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.