Mohawk Girls series tells stories of once ‘voiceless’ women – Arts & Entertainment – CBC News

BBC News – Saudi woman makes history by reaching Everest summit

Afghan legislators block law protecting women – World – CBC News

Pregnancy, Politics and the Policing of Women’s Bodies

FOCUS | Passover 5773: Too Many Women Are Still Slaves

FOCUS | The Morality Brigade | Robert Reich

The South strikes again!

Why Abortion-Rights Activists Have Been Losing Ever Since Roe v. Wade — Printout — TIME

Men and Rape

Yves Smith: Project S.H.A.M.E – The Recovered History of Charles Murray

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

The War on Women’s Sexuality

The war on female sexuality: Is globalization to blame? – Salon.com

Hey, Rush Limbaugh: ‘Starting an Abortion Industry’ Won’t Win You Female Voters | Common Dreams

Colbert: Team Rape

Oral Sex, Yoga, and God’s Eternal Wrath: Inside the New Hipster Megachurch That Tells Modern Women to Submit

Mark Morford: How to Spot Completely Miserable GOP Women

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

Print: » Where the gender gap was born » Print – Salon.com

Akin’s Comments About Rape and Pregnancy Common Among Anti-Choice Movement

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

Ian Welsh: On Pinochet and Rape Allegations

Pinochet 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 are

Pussy Riot Prosecutor Calls for 3-Year Jail Term: ‘Feminism Is a Mortal Sin’ | Common Dreams

Women’s Inequality Linked to Soaring Population

Workplace Toxics Reveal the Beauty Industry’s Ugly Side

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.”

The Secret of Our Obsession With Anne Boleyn | | AlterNet

Lori Sokol: Kissing The Bag Lady Goodbye

Rape in the Military a Culture of Coverup