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Mohawk Girls series tells stories of once ‘voiceless’ women – Arts & Entertainment – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Sunday, May 19, 2013BBC News – Saudi woman makes history by reaching Everest summit
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 18, 2013Afghan legislators block law protecting women – World – CBC News
Posted by Harry Sifton, Saturday, May 18, 2013Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 13, 2013FOCUS | Passover 5773: Too Many Women Are Still Slaves
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 28, 2013FOCUS | The Morality Brigade | Robert Reich
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 28, 2013The South strikes again!
Posted by Michael Hamilton, Thursday, March 7, 2013Why Abortion-Rights Activists Have Been Losing Ever Since Roe v. Wade — Printout — TIME
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, January 21, 2013Men and Rape
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 17, 2013Yves Smith: Project S.H.A.M.E – The Recovered History of Charles Murray
Smith at Naked Capitalism ..Charles Murray is one of the most influential right-wing ideological architects of the post-Reagan era. His career began in a secret Pentagon counterinsurgency operation in rural Thailand during the Vietnam War, a program whose stated purpose included applying counter-insurgency strategies learned in rural Thailand on America’s own restive inner cities and minority populations. By the late 1970s, Charles Murray was drawing up plans for the US Justice Department that called for massively increasing incarceration rates. In the 1980s, backed by an unprecedented marketing campaign, Murray suddenly emerged as the nation’s most powerful advocate for abolishing welfare programs for single mothers. Since then, Murray revived discredited racist eugenics theories “proving” that blacks and Latinos are genetically inferior to whites, and today argues that the lower classes are inferior to the upper classes due to breeding differences.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, January 10, 2013
The War on Women’s Sexuality
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, January 9, 2013The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 8, 2013Hey, Rush Limbaugh: ‘Starting an Abortion Industry’ Won’t Win You Female Voters | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, November 9, 2012Oral Sex, Yoga, and God’s Eternal Wrath: Inside the New Hipster Megachurch That Tells Modern Women to Submit
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, October 24, 2012Mark Morford: How to Spot Completely Miserable GOP Women
this is Morford in the SF Chronicle ..You can see it in the eyes. Vacant, sort of glassy, dark and distant as if staring into a cave full of nails from a thousand miles – and a million joyful lifetimes – away .. You know the look. You’ve seen it a million times, this “Oh my God how did I get here,” this “How can this really be my life,” this look of deep and long-muted pain and/or dull resignation, the long rusted-over knowledge that choices have been made and there was no other way, even though there was, even though there still is.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Thursday, August 30, 2012
Print: » Where the gender gap was born » Print – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, August 29, 2012Akin’s Comments About Rape and Pregnancy Common Among Anti-Choice Movement
David Dayen at Firedoglake ..Todd Akin’s comments to a local news station about “legitimate rape” and how women have a magic pregnancy shutdown switch when in a rape situation. (I believe it activates much like the Wonder Twins, you have to yell out “form a sperm filter!”) Akin has since said that he “misspoke”. But he actually uttered a long-standing belief on the part of the anti-choice movement .. from [one] site - "Trauma from the rape may bring into play some natural defence mechanisms that reduce the likelihood of pregnancy, such as hormonal change and spasms of the fallopian tubes which inhibit ovulation or fertilisation" .. The problem for Akin and the rest is that none of this is true. 32,101 pregnancies result from rape every year, according to the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. But that won’t stop this zombie lie from perpetuating in anti-choice circles.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, August 20, 2012
Ian Welsh: On Pinochet and Rape Allegations
Ian WelshPinochet had women raped by dogs and Britain wouldn’t extradite him .. So I don’t want to hear anything from Britain about how important extradition is to them or how important rape accusations areindeed - mab
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Friday, August 17, 2012
Pussy Riot Prosecutor Calls for 3-Year Jail Term: ‘Feminism Is a Mortal Sin’ | Common Dreams
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, August 7, 2012Women’s Inequality Linked to Soaring Population
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, July 16, 2012Workplace Toxics Reveal the Beauty Industry’s Ugly Side
Michelle Chen in Firedoglake ..According to the [National Healthy Nail & Beauty Salon] Alliance’s analysis, the hazards endemic to the nail salon industry are stratified by ethnicity and gender: roughly four in ten workers are Asian immigrants, many of them of childbearing age, poor, uninsured and with limited English-speaking ability. And they are assaulted daily by invisible threats: "On a daily basis and often for long hours at a stretch, nail and beauty salon technicians – most of whom are women of reproductive age – handle solvents, glues, polishes, dyes, straightening solutions and other nail and beauty care products, containing a multitude of unregulated chemicals that are known or suspected to cause cancer, allergies, respiratory illnesses, neurological and reproductive harm" .. One particularly popular and controversial hair treatment is Brazilian Blowout, which produces formaldehyde gas linked to cancer and associated with respiratory ailments .. California-based stylist Jennifer Arce talked about becoming sick from Brazilian Blowout, recalling that among her coworkers, “We were all getting rashes, headaches, and bloody noses.”.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Monday, June 18, 2012
The Secret of Our Obsession With Anne Boleyn | | AlterNet
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED, An interesting article very pertinent to the positions of women. mbPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, June 17, 2012

