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feminism stories: 65 news summaries

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SHORT TEMPERS

 Student 
 Expelled for 
 Minidress 


Brazilian school accuses woman of immorality in newspaper ads

Nov 9, 09 10:46 AM CST
(Newser) - A 20-year-old woman was expelled from a Brazilian university and accused of violating "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality" after wearing a short pink dress to class, the AP reports. Her expulsion comes a month after she was escorted off campus amid the heckling and cursing of her... More »

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feminism • Brazil • short skirt • colleges and universities

OPINION

 Miss, Mrs., or Ms.— 
 'It's OK Not to Care' 

Nancy Gibbs reflects on women's freedom to choose title

Oct 19, 09 3:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not so long ago, feminism and convention waged a battle over titles—Miss, Mrs., and the young upstart, Ms. Though seemingly trivial, the question of whether a woman should have to specify her marital status in stating her name cut to the core of women’s place in society—and... More »

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feminism • women • language • convention • title

OPINION

Honor the Dalai Lama: Replace Him With a Girl

Next reincarnation of the Buddha ought
to be a woman

Oct 9, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Dalai Lama’s work for peace has been so widely praised that it’s almost obscured his wonderful work as a feminist. He has worked tirelessly for women, seeking to raise their position in Tibetan society, writes Amy Yee for Double X. He even suggested, scandalously, that his next... More »

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feminism • women • Dalai Lama • Buddhism • gender equality

OPINION

 Hofstra Gang Rape Wasn't 
 Rape—but It Wasn't OK 

Drunken sexual encounters trivialize the problem of real rape

Sep 22, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - It’s clear now that the alleged Hofstra gang rape in a campus bathroom—in which a young woman said 5 guys tied her to a stall and attacked her—was not rape, by any legal definition. Confronted with a cell phone video, the woman recanted within 72 hours, admitting... More »

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feminism • alcohol • college student • false accusations • legal action • Hofstra University • date rape

(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

OPINION

 Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool 


Aug 13, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sara Mosle “came of age betwixt and between,” she writes on DoubleX—after feminism had freed women from the need to learn “traditional female skills” but before “they had begun to make real inroads into traditional male pastimes and professions.” So that left her with... More »

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feminism • housewives • work • women • home • physical activity • carpentry

 Refugee Crisis 
 Opens Doors 
 for Pakistan's 
 Secluded Women 

Women uprooted by fighting gain new access to health care, education

Jul 4, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women's leaders in Pakistan have found an unexpected silver lining in the country's refugee crisis, the Globe & Mail reports. A million women have been forced from their homes by the fighting, upending the Pashtun code of honor that forces women to spend almost all their time secluded in family... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • feminism • women • refugee camp • refugee

OPINION

 Thank Women for 
 Iran's Revolution 


Jun 23, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans like to thank Barack Obama or George Bush or even Twitter for Iran’s revolution, but the real movers and shakers are Iran’s women, writes Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post. They’ve spent years organizing and campaigning for equal rights, and their presence in the... More »

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feminism • women • women's rights • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Zahra Rahnavard • Iranian protests • Iranian women • equal rights

Palin Tours Feminist Landmarks

Media scarce as Alaska gov. launches low-key visit to lower 48

Jun 6, 09 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - There were few reporters to be seen as Sarah Palin visited some landmarks of early feminism in upstate New York yesterday, Politico reports. The Alaska governor is at the start of a low-key out-of-state trip with no mass rallies or major addresses planned. Most of the events she plans to... More »

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Alaska • Republican • feminism • Sarah Palin • Todd Palin

(Newser) - More American women are turning weddings into racy affairs as third-wave feminism sexes up an old-fashioned ceremony, Kayleen Schaefer writes in Newsweek. In the age of "sexting" and provocative mainstream magazines, brides are discarding rituals for skimpy outfits and wild bachelorette parties. "It's the ultimate display of... More »

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fashion • feminism • weddings • sexting

OPINION

Wanted: Female Bloggers Not Afraid of Math

Feminists focus on fluffy recession news, hurt women's cause

May 26, 09 5:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - What movies do broke people watch? How do lipstick sales reflect a limping economy? A review of women's blogs shows a dangerous emphasis on "recession lite," writes Linda Hirshman for DoubleX. What women need is someone willing to do the math and go to bat against the men... More »

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feminism • layoffs • women • unemployment • economist • economic stimulus package

Feminist Camps Brawl Over Sex and Booze

Double X scribe says untamed 'lifestyle' feminism hurts cause

May 17, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - It's second-wave feminism vs. the "Slut Machine." A writer on Slate's women-oriented Double X site recently blasted bloggers on Jezebel for shrugging off date rape and boasting about boozing. Self-indulgence furthers no political goal, cried feminist Linda Hirshman. Retorted Jezebel: "I have seen misogyny and, most... More »

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feminism • women • binge drinking • Gawker Media • Jezebel • Double X • date rape • promiscuity

BOOK REVIEW

Cosmo Editor Breathed Fun Into Feminism

Helen Gurley Brown made movement
sexy and smart

May 2, 09 4:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - For proof of the burgeoning reconciliation between second- and third-wave feminism, look no further than Michelle Obama, who thrives as a thinking woman's fashionista. For that, Obama and other feminists can thank Helen Gurley Brown, Naomi Wolf argues in a Washington Post review of Bad Girls Go Everywhere, Jennifer Scanlon’... More »

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feminism • book • Helen Gurley Brown • Betty Friedan

Ginsburg Shows No Signs
of Slowing Down

Symposium celebrates 'midpoint'
of justice's career

Apr 12, 09 8:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg has shown no signs of slowing, despite cancer surgery in February: Since then, she's attended every Supreme Court session, written more opinions than all but one other justice, and raised plenty of questions from the bench. A symposium celebrating Ginsburg’s service almost seemed designed to quash... More »

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cancer • feminism • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • justice • pancreatic cancer • US Supreme Court

 O'Connor: I'm Not a 'Feminist' 

Former justice wants kids to learn about courts

Mar 22, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sandra Day O’Connor says the reason she hoped a woman would be named to replace her on the Supreme Court is that it's easier not to be the only woman on the nation's highest bench. As the first female justice, she tells Deborah Solomon in the New York Times... More »

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feminism • women • courts • Sandra Day O'Connor • website • US Supreme Court

OPINION

Beef With The Bachelor:
Men Should Do the Chasing

Men only appreciate what they fight for, author writes

Mar 10, 09 12:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - You might view ABC’s The Bachelor as harmless fun. Think again. “It’s wrong. It’s just plain wrong,” Lisa Earle McLeod writes in the Huffington Post. “It violates the social order of the universe.” No, not because reality TV is evil or sexist.... More »

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television • reality TV • feminism • dating • The Bachelor • Jason Mesnick

Limbaugh: 'What Must I Do to
Own Women?'

Rush convenes 'female summit' to find out why babes don't like him

Feb 26, 09 9:07 AM CST
(Newser) - Women don’t like Rush Limbaugh, and he wants to know why. A new poll shows that the radio host has a 49% disapproval rating among women—with only 37% favorable—so he held a “female summit” on his show yesterday, inviting women callers of all political stripes to... More »

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feminism • talk radio • women • Rush Limbaugh • Bill Maher Grid

(Newser) - In the debate over a leaked police photo of Rihanna, her face badly beaten, feminist bloggers and pundits are revealing their archaic attitudes toward domestic violence, Rebecca Traister writes in Salon. One asked whether Rihanna will carry the "domestic violence victim" stigma; another questioned whether she was partly... More »

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feminism • domestic violence • Rihanna • Chris Brown • victim • stigma

opinion

 Sorry, Chick Flicks:
 We're Just Not That Into You 

Genre too often relies on 'clichés, hateful caricatures' of womanhood

Feb 5, 09 11:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Where have all the Carrie Bradshaws and Bridget Joneses gone? The women of flicks like Bride Wars and Confessions of a Shopaholic are pale imitations of those relatively feisty heroines, “variously neurotic, idiotic, label-obsessed, weight-obsessed, man-obsessed or wedding-obsessed, and often all at the same time,” Kevin Maher complains... More »

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Hollywood • feminism • women • men • Sex and the City • Carrie Bradshaw • chick flicks • Bridget Jones' Diary • He's Just Not That Into You

(Newser) - Whether it’s hormones, increased self-esteem or stepping out on their spouses, 40-something women are experiencing the best sex of their lives, reports the Guardian. "It's one of the best-kept secrets of women's lives," noted one expert. Of 2,000 women polled in a recent survey, 77% said... More »

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feminism • marriage • age • sex • menopause • confidence • cheating • older women • intimacy

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