July 7th, 2008
Actually nothing, so don’t feel bad if you’re stumped by the title to this post, but check out this revolting bit of dialog that Rachel posted on Our Bodies Our Blog in a discussion of why ob/gyn’s don’t do more vaginal hysterectomies since the outcome tends to be better for the patient:
“Ob/gyn Mark Vizer says,
“I […]
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July 4th, 2008
Miss Piggy Rocks!
Many thanks to my friend Ellen for sharing this!
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July 3rd, 2008
My kids refuse to teach me how to use Facebook, but Krista over at Beauty and the Breast took the plunge and found, much to her horror that among the ‘gifts’ you can send to your friends is a set of boobs–there are motivational boobs, fake boobs (which Krista points out is a tad oxymoronic […]
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July 3rd, 2008
From the Every Mother is a Working Mother Network:
Dear Friends,
We have had a major media breakthrough in the “DHS – Give Us Back Our Children” campaign (see below for background). Elmer Smith, who has a regular column in the Philadelphia Daily News and is also on their Editorial Board, did a […]
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July 3rd, 2008
The exploitation of people crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. is certainly nothing new. But one of the aspects of this abuse that has received very little notice is the sexual abuse against women that is taking place. Several months ago we were horrified at reports of Iraqi women being forced […]
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July 2nd, 2008
Press Release from Madre:
MADRE: Rights, Resources, and Results for Women Worldwide
Women Leaders Submit Letter to the G8, Demand Action on Food CrisisContact:
Diana Duarte,
Media Coordinator
PHONE: 212-627-0444
EMAIL: media@madre.org
Next Monday, as the G8 gathering of the world’s wealthiest countries begins, devising solutions to the food crisis raging across the planet will be high on the agenda. Today, MADRE […]
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June 30th, 2008
For a blogger, there is nothing that says welcome back after being on the road like finding a really good story about a major misogynist from your hometown on a seriously obscure website rather than in the morning paper where it belongs. But kudos to Ethics Daily which reports that Bruce […]
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June 24th, 2008
And yet another fine reason why the military is bad for women:
“While women make up 14 percent of Army personnel, 46 percent of those discharged under the policy last year were women. And while 20 percent of Air Force personnel are women, 49 percent of its discharges under the policy last year were women.
By comparison […]
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June 24th, 2008
Little doubt that one of the all-time things that screams vulnerability is lying flat on your back in a hospital bed with your feet in stirrups, likely with all manner of monitoring equipment and an IV attached, having childbirth contractions every few seconds. And that is exactly where the American Medical Association wants women […]
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June 23rd, 2008
From IRIN:
“Most women arriving in parts of the province of Kasai Occidental in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) among a new wave of some 27,000 deportees from Angola, have been sexually abused, a local health official said.
“There are many injured people and 80 percent of the women [who arrived] had been raped,” Pierre Didi […]
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