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How to Be a Woman in Tehran
I stay because, as my mother never stopped repeating, I am my own woman, but also my own man. By Habibe Jafarian, translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh.
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Bo Webber ~ #SaveRape #Don'tSaveMeBro!
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GOP Still Investigating Planned Parenthood, Even After Sting Videos Backfire
Republicans are determined to push on with their investigation of Planned Parenthood, even after a Texas grand jury cleared the organization of wrongdoing on Monday and instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who targeted the family planning provider in a series of undercover videos.
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What Happens When A Country Without Abortion Bans Pregnancy?
In response to Zika virus, officials are promoting a two-year ban on pregnancy in El Salvador—where abortions are illegal and birth control is hard to come by.
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Why Don’t Boomer Women Like Hillary Clinton?
Mrs. Clinton, 68, has always counted on women of her generation as her rock-solid base. Polls don’t quantify doubts, but anecdotally, enthusiasm for her is anemic.
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10 Things You’re Taught Growing Up as a Christian Woman
As you read the examples below of things you learn in conservative Christianity about godly womanhood, imagine that you are a young woman and these are the messages you are receiving from the people that you trust the most in your life. Some of these messages are taught directly and others are mostly just implied or demonstrated in the Bible.
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I Used to Hate Hillary Clinton. Now I’m Voting for Her.
It was easier to write about Hillary Clinton when I hated her. I spent much of the 2008 Democratic primary season furious at both Clinton and the second-wave feminists who tried to guilt young women into voting for her. In Barack Obama, I thought, America had the chance to elect a transcendent figure, a person who promised so much more than the relentless triangulation of Bill Clinton’s disillusioning presidency.
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Women considered better coders – but only if they hide their gender
Researchers find software repository GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed
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The Pro-Life Issue That Republicans Aren’t Lining Up To Support
Pro-life Republicans spend a lot of time talking about their mission to save babies’ lives. So will they line up to support a new piece of legislation that’s designed to prevent infant deaths? It doesn’t seem like it.
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Women on the verge: Art, feminism, and social media
“WHENEVER YOU PUT YOUR BODY ONLINE, in some way you are in conversation with porn.” The large-type epigraph on the landing page of the online exhibition “Body Anxiety” was culled from an interview with artist Ann Hirsch, whose frustrated musings in ☆ミ, or Starwave, an invitation-only Facebook group for “Internet-savvy” women artists, curators, and writers, …
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Duggar cult survivor wants you to meet the powerful women who make other women’s lives a living hell
Quiverfull is a contemporary manifestation of capital-p Patriarchy, but what if I told you that the majority of fundamentalist Christians pushing women to live Quiverfull lives of wifely submission and prolific childbearing are WOMEN?
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Stunning Portraits Spotlight Trans Women Activists of Color
Andrea Bowers's new exhibit asks "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway?"
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Abortion rates are falling, but conservatives won’t like the reason why
The abortion rate is declining, but that has nothing to do with the sharp increase in anti-abortion legislation over the past decade. Instead, you can give credit to effective contraception, according to a new study.
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Supreme Court Reopens Clinics Closed By Anti-Abortion Law
The Supreme Court handed down a brief order Monday allowing four Louisiana abortion clinics to reopen after they were closed due to a recent decision by a conservative federal appeals court.
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How Suffragists Used Cookbooks As A Recipe For Subversion
Women seeking the right to vote published the cookbooks both to raise funds for their cause — and as a strategic rebuttal to those who painted them as neglectful mothers and kitchen-hating harridans.
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Up Against the Centerfold: What It Was Like to Report on Feminism for Playboy in 1969
Almost as soon as I arrived in Manhattan to seek my fortune, I backed into a knuckle-bruising battle with Playboy’s Hugh Hefner. By Susan Braudy.
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What Kate Did
Today's most heated literary arguments uphold the legacy of Kate Millett's 'Sexual Politics.' By Maggie Doherty.
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Who Birthed the Anti-Trans Bathroom Panic?
Conservatives and religious groups are borrowing myths about transgender people from feminists. By Melissa Gira Grant.
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The forgotten genius: why Anne wins the battle of the Brontës
For the BBC’s Being the Brontës, I got behind the bullied youngest sister – a feminist and social firebrand whose ideas were way over Charlotte’s head and years before their time. By Lucy Mangan.
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Should Prostitution Be a Crime?
A growing movement of sex workers and activists is making the decriminalization of sex work a feminist issue.
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