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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: feminists

feminists stories: 8 news summaries

 Whoopi Calls 
 Polanski Case 
 'Not Rape-Rape,' 
 Triggers Uproar 

Hollywood supporters facing off against angry feminists over sex with teen

Sep 30, 09 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoopi Goldberg's comment that Roman Polanski's sex with a 13-year-old girl wasn't really "rape-rape" has added fuel to the growing conflagration between the film director's Hollywood supporters and angry feminists. "I know it wasn't rape-rape. I think it was something else, but I don't believe it was rape-rape,... More »

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crime • France • Los Angeles • rape • district attorney • feminists • Roman Polanski • child rape • Samantha Geimer • anal sex

(Newser) - For Katie Roiphe, the connection with her newborn child is like an “addiction," she writes on DoubleX. "There is an opium-den quality to maternity leave. The high of a love that obliterates everything.” Why, then, can’t feminists accept that motherhood is more than a “... More »

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motherhood • parenting • feminism • addiction • infant • newborn • feminists • maternity leave • narcotics • women's issues


 Broke Feminist 
 Faces Health 
 Care Battle 

Family tragedies have left Michelman with nothing

Apr 19, 09 4:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - When Kate Michelman had mounting bills as a pregnant single mother of three in 1969, she lobbied for abortion rights and became one of America's top feminists. Now, treading water financially again, she's girding for a new fight—over health care. Her daughter is paralyzed and her husband has health... More »

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health care costs • health insurance • Parkinson's disease • feminists • paralysis • NARAL • Kate Michelman

 Getty Nails 
 Guerrilla Girls 
 Archive 

Rad fems' files going to LA research institute

Apr 9, 09 2:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Guerrilla Girls gang of subversive feminist artists has apparently reached an accommodation with the white male establishment with an agreement to turn over the organization's archives to the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, reports the Independent. "We've had this stuff sitting in boxes for ages,"... More »

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art • protests • guerilla • feminists • female artists • guerilla art

 Merde! French 
 Rapper Sparks 
 Feminist Fury 

Lyrics threaten to break lovers arm, legs

Mar 30, 09 5:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - A French musician's rap about beating his girlfriend has so enraged activists that they're lobbying to have him banned from an upcoming rock festival, the Guardian reports. OrelSan sings about a broken arm, broken legs, and a wished-for miscarriage and "slow death" for his lover in his song Sale ... More »

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music • France • sexism • domestic violence • Socialist Party • rapper • rap music • feminists • Communists

OPINION

Time to Retire the Crotch Shots, Madge

'Trussed chicken'
poses reveal diva's pathetic desperation

Jan 22, 09 11:31 AM CST
(Newser) - More than gloves came off for Madonna during her divorce, and it seems no amount of pleading can stop the 50-year-old’s “forced erotica,” Jan Moir writes in the Daily Mail. Madge’s crotch shots for her new Hard Candy album are “the death rattle of a... More »

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music • aging • celebrity • sexuality • musician • Madonna • feminists • sex symbol

Zardari Slapped With Fatwa for Flirting With Palin

Pakistani feminists also angry at president for 'shameful' behavior

Oct 2, 08 12:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Asif Ali Zardari’s overly-friendly interaction with Sarah Palin earned Pakistan’s president a fatwa from a conservative mosque for salacious behavior, not to mention the scorn of feminists who accuse him of objectifying the US vice-presidential candidate, the Christian Science Monitor reports. At the UN last week, Zardari told... More »

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Pakistan • sexism • Muslim • Benazir Bhutto • fatwa • feminists • Asif Ali Zardari • Election 2008 • conservative Islam • Sarah Palin

Accomplished Women Aren't Sold on Clinton

Candidate inspires mixed emotions in well-educated voters

Dec 8, 07 2:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Blue-collar women are crazy for Hillary Clinton; so why are the candidate’s college-educated peers less thrilled? The LA Times looks at a demographic that’s cold on the Democratic  frontrunner. Many don’t like her politics, some feel she handled her husband's infidelity poorly, and others just don’t... More »

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Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Nora Ephron • feminists

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