The Brooklyn Museum currently houses the ‘Votes for Women’ exhibition in the Herstory Gallery of the Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Complete with photos and artifacts, the exhibition will run through November 30, 2008 and promises to be an eye- opening celebration of the United States suffrage movement. …
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http://thinkgirl.net/?p=4084In the months following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001, Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi and her friend Aliki Moschis-Gauguet noticed that the only depictions they saw of Muslim women showed figures behind veils, oppressed by their cultures. …
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http://thinkgirl.net/?p=4083Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country to meet the booming demand for prostitutes. Police, unveiling the results of the largest ever crackdown on people smuggling yesterday, revealed that nearly five times more women than previously thought are working under duress in massage parlours and suburban homes. …
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