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America’s First Women Aviators
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Amelia Earhart followed a trail blazed by several daring women aviators.1 day ago -
Thanksgiving blogging, redux: How Not to Cook a Wolf
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It’s Thanksgiving week, so I thought I would reprise my Thanksgiving foods posts from last year. Just in case you haven’t finalized your menu, here’s a retrospective of Thanksgivings past (and in the far distant past): “ Thanksgiving blogging, part I: ‘this depends intirely on the goodness of your fire ...2 days ago -
This week in Jewish Womens History
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WEEK OF NOVEMBER 23 NOVEMBER 23, 1847A group of Jewish women in Charleston, South Carolina deplored the death of British author Grace Aguilar as a "national calamity." more >> NOVEMBER 25, 1917The first shelter for Jewish women discharged from New York jails was opened by the New York section of the National ...2 days ago -
African Activism Against Female Circumcision Is Focus of New Film
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VOA News.com November 18, 2009 A new film focuses on the fight by African activists against an ancient practice that is still performed each year on millions of girls: female circumcision, often known as FGM, or female genital mutilation. Opponents call it a human rights abuse that destroys a woman’s ability to ...4 days ago -
Beliefs and Practices in Women’s Health
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Brisas Health India Ramaiah Bheenaveni November 20, 2009 Rural women’s health is an infinitely broad topic. Many Indian women have come from circumstances in which women have limited access to healthcare. Traditionally, there has been discrimination towards women in decision-making; access to resources such ...4 days ago -
“Vogue” profile of Hillary Clinton
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Via RealClearPolitics , check out “Her Brilliant Career,” a flattering profile of Hillary Clinton, by Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter , who accompanied the Secretary of State on her trip to Africa this past summer and met with her several times over the past few months. (The on-line version is apparently ...4 days ago -
The Myth of the Mammogram
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Why many American women are resolutely rejecting the new mammogram recommendations, despite mixed reaction in the medical community. Newsweek By Pat Wingert | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 20, 2009 Most adult women know a woman in her 40s who was diagnosed with breast cancer and died. So the news this week ...4 days ago -
Disabled Women Put at Double Disadvantage
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The Korea Times Nation By Bae Ji-sook Staff Reporter 11-20.09 Disabled women face many hardships in society. Being female as well as handicapped often puts them at a great disadvantage even before birth, according to a guidebook recently published by the advocacy group, “Differently Abled Women United.” ...4 days ago -
Maggie L. Walker
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My colleague Marianne Babal is a VIP in the Public History world (scroll down a little). A friend of hers teaches at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and earlier this year his/her students found a treasure trove. In an attic (totally by chance!), they found records ...5 days ago -
Thoughts on New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines
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I’ve been replying to a query about this on Hartford Courant columnist Susan Campbell’s blog , so am going to put some of my thoughts down here at Knitting Clio as well. Susan writes: “Here are the new recommendations. Tell me I’m getting all conspiracy-theorist and I will at least half-listen, ...5 days ago -
Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
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By Kim E. Nielsen Beacon Press Books As a child, I was very intrigued by the life and story of Helen Keller. Though she was deaf, blind, and initially mute, she went on to live a full life: graduating college and publishing books. While Helen Keller’s remarkable story has served as an inspiration to us all, ...1 week ago -
Historical Progress and Reasonable Men
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Miss S. raises some issues with one of my arguments from my presentation on Orson Scott Cards Speaker for the Dead. I argue that history should be taught with a decidedly unpolemical stance, even when dealing with societies and institutions that most people today would find morally abhorrent such as slavery or open ...1 week ago -
“Better dead than co-ed”
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That’s what we used to say back at my “Seven Sisters” college in the 1980s! Every twenty years or so, it seems like even the most elite and well-established women’s colleges have a conversation about going co-ed. Let’s face it–coeducational or historically all-male colleges have much bigger ...1 week ago -
Non-Muslim = Menstruation Women = No
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The Nut GraphBy The Nut Graph teameditor@thenutgraph.comPARTI Keadilan Rakyats Seri Andalas assemplyperson, Dr Xavier Jayakumar, has unintentionally landed the Taman Sri Andalas mosque committee in hot soup. Xavier had given a talk in the mosque during a Ramadan function in late August 2009. According to the Selangor ...1 week ago -
Why Women’s Rights Matter to Our Food
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Change.org By Katherine Gustafson Published November 09, 2009 @ 06:00AM PT “Consider the daily life of the world’s typical small farmer,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the closing session of the 2009 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in September . “She lives in a rural village in ...1 week ago -
More girls in India are refusing to become child brides.
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Despite a 2006 law banning the age-old practice, most parents in rural India still want to marry off their daughters before the legal age of 18. Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2009 By Mark Magnier Reporting from Mohammad Nagar Dhani, India - Her fate was all but sealed, the wedding bells ringing in her ...1 week ago -
Veterans Day Celebration: Where are the Women?
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Earlier this week, my colleagues and I organized an event honoring women veterans at CCSU. Our headliner was VA Commissioner Linda Spoonster Schwartz , who started her career during the Vietnam war. At that time, the military only permitted 2% of active duty personnel to be female. So, Schwartz began her ...1 week ago -
WND Exclusive Teen fights vaccination for sexually transmitted virus
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Teen fights vaccination for sexually transmitted virus Lawyers say forcing treatment violates her religious rights Posted: November 12, 2009 By Bob Unruh © 2009 WorldNetDaily A teenager is entitled to an exemption from a federal requirement that she be given a vaccine against a sexually ...1 week ago -
How To Sell a Tampon
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How advertisers market products you’re not supposed to talk about. Double X Posted: Thursday, October 29, 09 11:21am By Susan Kim Throughout history (and in many parts of the world today), women used rags, sheepskin, or nothing at all to deal with their periods. Getting women to pay for something that had ...1 week ago -
Maj. Nidal Hasan, MD: just an all-American guy
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The bloviating in the conservative media about the Muslim identity of the Fort Hood murderer is predictable, but so, so very stupid. It’s clear to me that he’s just another mass-murderer in our all-American tradition in which socially maladjusted men , who in spite of also being religiously insane ...1 week ago
