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• Students react to Marge Simpson as Playboy’s November centerfold

  
  Daily Titan — Authority: 606
  By Lauren Felechner Daily Titan Staff Writer Dramatization by Ron Fu. Marge Simpson has officially joined the ranks of celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriends of “The Girls Next Door,” Bridget, Holly and Kendra, by posing as November’s cover shot with a pictorial in Playboy ...
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• Why Men And Women Use Lubricants During Sex: Two studies

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  An Indiana University study involving 2,453 women ages 18 to 68 found that lubricant use during sexual activity alone or with a partner contributed to higher ratings of pleasurable and satisfying sex. Personal lubricants have long been recommended to women to improve the comfort of sexual intercourse and to reduce ...
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• A Transwoman in need of Feminism 101

  
  Knitting Clio — Authority: 112
  In this month’s The History of Science Society | Newsletter , historian Alice Dreger writes about the kind of an encounter at the National Women’s Studes Association meeting that they don’t prepare you for in graduate school (although maybe on the middle school playground).  For those unfamiliar with ...
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• Everyday Nationalism--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India ...
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• My Women Unbound Reading List (X10 or so)

  
  Joystory — Authority: 514
  See yesterdays post for my acceptance of the challenge and my answers to the starting meme questions. So upon deciding to accept this Women Unbound womens studies reading challenge last night, I started pulling potential books off my shelves, both owned and borrowed, and combing through my bib slips for titles and ...
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• Women Unbound Reading Challenge

  
  Joystory — Authority: 514
  Im signing on to the Women Unbound reading challenge . It began November 1st and runs through the end of November 2010. Participants are encouraged to read nonfiction and fiction books related to the rather broad idea of ‘women’s studies.’ The definition according to Merriam-Webster the multidisciplinary ...
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• Women’s studies blogs are eye-openers

  
  A blog of our own — Authority: 98
  If you are looking for an eye-opening women’s studies blog, you’ve already found one. A Blog of Our Own , the blog for the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Akron, has been named one of “ Fifty Eye-Opening Women’s Studies Blogs ” by Online Degree Programs.org. It’s listed in the ...
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• The Kings Other Body--Now Available

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  The Kings Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon Theresa Earenfight 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4185-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Middle Ages Series The Kings Other Body: María of Castile and the Crown of Aragon is both a biography of Alfonso Vs queen ...
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• Sunday Salon: the Wow-October’s-Over! Post

  
  A Striped Armchair — Authority: 605
  Can you believe today is November 1st? I missed last week’s Sunday Salon (although I did a Friday salon, lol) in the post-Dewey’s Read-a-Thon, so I have quite a few books to talk about. I’ve decided to save the graphic books I’ve been reading for another post, but that leaves us with 16. So let’s get ...
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• *Women Unbound* reading challenge

  
  She Is Too Fond Of Books ... — Authority: 530
  I was eaves-twopping on Twitter earlier this week and landed smack in the middle of a conversation between Eva , Care , Aarti and others about the formation of a women’s studies reading challenge for the upcoming year.  How exciting!  How timely! How “Yes! Great idea!”! According to the intro post on the ...
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• The Anatomy Murders Corpse of the Day--Mary Paterson

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 127
  Mary Patersons corpse was, as historian Lisa Rosner put it, "the most notorious cadaver." Her murder at the hands of William Burke and William Hare, and the subsequent preservation of her body at Dr. Robert Knoxs anatomical study facility were the fodder for many titillating and moralizing versions of the Burke and ...
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• New Media, New Technologies

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
  A Media Forum Cal State LA- Los Angeles, CA 11/16/09 Mark you calendars and join American Communities Program as they sponsor a roundtable of award-winning journalists, bloggers, and scholars as they discuss how new media and technologies affect the ways that we generate and disseminate knowledge about ourselves ...
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• Psychology & Law: Analysis of USA Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor @ UC Berkeley University Comment

  
  The Freire Project - The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy — Authority: 128
  Analysis of Sonia Sotomayor’s @ Berkeley University Comment:   “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life”.                                            ...
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• Jehmu Greene New President of Women’s Media Center

  
  AVALON FARMBLOG — Authority: 118
  Women’s Media Center Announces Selection of New President Jehmu Greene Former Rock the Vote Head is an Alumna of the WMC’s Prestigious Progressive Women’s Voices Leadership Program October 28, 2009 (New York, New York) — The Women’s Media Center (WMC), a leading media advocacy and training organization ...
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• Spot the Feminist Writer

  
  Cosmopolitan Conservative — Authority: 463
  Two well-meaning undergraduates at James Madison University–Meredith Burns and Elizabeth Hogan– wrote an op-ed in their school paper, The Breeze , explaining “What a Feminist Looks Like.” It wouldn’t be interesting except that this short essay is a litany of previous feminist writers. It’s not ...
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• These boots are made for talking

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 534
  Noah Cyrus, 9, younger sister of Miley Cyrus, at a Halloween party over the weekend. Slut or princess. These are your Disney-sanctioned career options, girls.
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• Someday my prince will come

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 534
  From the always awesome Sociological Images: Which gives me an excuse to post this little nugget from The Nation which I have been saving for just this sort of occasion. Its by Barbara Ehrenreich, one of my idols. Disney likes to think of the Princesses as role models, but what a sorry bunch of wusses they are. ...
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• Choo on this

  
  Broadsides — Authority: 534
  Two items of note today, neither of which I am loathe to reward with attention. But a girls got to do what a girls got to do. First up, this unbelievably sexist piece of crap. Columnist Ian Robertson muses on the differences between women on the left and those on the right. And why has he chosen this topic? Because ...
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• American Women and Politics — post 2008…

  
  Valentine Bonnaire — Authority: 122
  Any woman who wanted to see Hillary Clinton become the President might have had suffragettes as a relative.  I did.  My great grandmother on my mother’s side was one.  Here is a picture from that era.  Click on the picture and you can read an aricle that is very interesting, too. Hmm…it wasn’t easy ...
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• Don’t Ignore the Signs about Breast Cancer Awareness

  
  UNC Press Blog — Authority: 114
  Whether you or someone you know is battling breast cancer, or you are just going about your daily routine, breast cancer awareness is hard to miss.  October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and it is nice to see support coming from everywhere–sidewalk signs to window displays to NFL football helmets–PINK is ...
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