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In Deference to Men: Growing up in the 1950s – Women's eNews
Dec 16, 2024 · Many moons ago during the middle of the twentieth century (before the gender expansion of today), learning to look and act like a proper young lady involved being self-effacing, self-limiting and docile.
Sanger’s Legacy Is Reproductive Freedom and Racism
Dec 16, 2024 · Despite Margaret Sanger's contributions to birth control and hence women's freedom and empowerment, her legacy is diminished by her sympathies with eugenics. This writer says that, like many modern feminists, Sanger ignored class and race.
What is Women’s Health? It’s More Than You Think
Dec 16, 2024 · When we hear “women’s health,” we should picture everything from the food labels that warn us about the hidden, unhealthy ingredients in packaged food to the policies that ban smoking in public spaces to the birth certificates that grant girls access to education.
MOTHERS FACE CIVIL RIGHTS CRISIS IN THE FAMILY COURTS – …
Dec 16, 2024 · Earlier this month, The Washington Post ran a headline story about a Virginia judge who ordered a mother to stop nursing her four-month-old infant daughter so that the father, who abandoned the mother right before the child’s birth, could have visitation four days a week at his home and soon be awarded overnights and weekends.The judge gave the mother the option of expressing her milk when ...
The Truth About the Sex Trade: Entry into the Life - Women's eNews
Aug 13, 2019 · The Life Story: Moments of Change is a groundbreaking new website and film project supported by NoVo Foundation that shines a light on the stories and experiences of women in the sex trade—also referred to as “the Life”—in an effort to provide better solutions that can prevent all girls and all women, cis, trans, and gender non-conforming, from being exploited in the first place, as ...
Birth Alert: Indigenous Newborns Still Apprehended in Canada
Dec 16, 2024 · “I was in care since I was two days old.” Staci, an Indigenous 21 year old woman tells me as she cradles her baby. The rain is falling on a tarp overhead that’s meant to protect food and supplies from the elements.
Nowhere To Turn: The Undeclared War on Women in Greece
Dec 5, 2024 · On June 9, the body of an 11-year old girl was found outside a small Greek town in the Peloponnese. She had been brutally killed with a screwdriver, resisting rape by her 37-year old uncle.
Chained Woman Has Become the Face of Bride Trafficking in China
Dec 16, 2024 · The Chinese government has launched a year-long campaign to stem trafficking of women and children. The decision was prompted by a public uproar over its longstanding failure to tackle bride trafficking. It all started with a woman the authorities call Little Plum Flower.
Femme Artists with Disabilities Take Center Stage
Nov 20, 2024 · H Bergerson_Venus Fly Trap. It used to be that when searching for famous artists with disabilities, you’d come up with a short list of mostly men: Van Gogh, Beethoven, Monet, Matisse, Chuck Close.