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feminism stories: 66 news summaries

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'Smash Highest Glass Ceiling,' Hillary Urges

Wellesley students
give alum a rock-star welcome

Nov 2, 07 3:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton may have taken a beating in the candidate debates this week, but the Wellesley College alum was hailed as a rock star when she returned to the all-women's campus to urge students to "shatter that highest glass ceiling." As students roared in approval, Clinton proclaimed: "... More »

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Hillary Clinton • feminism • debate • Wellesley • female president

Writer Grace Paley Dies at 84

'Neurotically Anti-Authoritarian' Activist and Author Gave Voice to Women of Native Bronx

Aug 23, 07 6:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Acclaimed writer and activist Grace Paley, who in only three collections of short stories gave earthy voice to the interior life of the Bronx Everywoman, died yesterday at age 84 in her Vermont home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Paley—whose sensibility admirer Philip Roth called "splendidly comic... More »

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breast cancer • feminism • obituary • literature • writer • Grace Paley • Rea Award • activist • Iraq war

'Mommy Lit' Taps Motherlode of Frustration

Reviewer rips popular portraits of female mediocrity

Aug 2, 07 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Slate reviewer Katie Roiphe dresses down the entire emerging "Mommy Lit" genre in her caustic feminist review of the Brit bestseller "Slummy Mummy." Roiphe says she doesn't have a problem with light summer page-turners, but she takes issue with the novel's celebration of frumpy female mediocrity.... More »

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feminism • women • literature • mothers • chick lit • Mommy Lit • Slummy Mummy • Fiona Neill • book

Televangelist Falwell Dead
at 73

Controversial conservative mixed religion, politics

May 15, 07 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Rev. Jerry Falwell, who founded the Moral Majority and mixed evangelism with conservative social criticism, died today after collapsing in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. He was 73. A lightning rod for controversy, Falwell once called AIDS "the wrath of a just God against homosexuals"... More »

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religious right • abortion • feminism • Jerry Falwell • Liberty University • religion • obituary • evangelism • homosexuality • Moral Majority • televangelist

To Work Or
Not to Work?

Provocative book worries about women giving up good careers to be trophy moms

Apr 3, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The feminist generation gap gets a sharp appraisal in "The Feminine Mistake," the new book by Leslie Bennetts that questions why so many upscale young women are abandoning careers for children. Joan Walsh finds it a refreshing rebuttal to recent paens to motherhood, especially since Bennetts recognizes that ... More »

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gender • motherhood • families • feminism • Feminine Mistake • Joan Walsh • housewives • women • children • Leslie Bennetts • working mothers • career

Web Sexism Spurs Meltdown

Salon Editor offers
mea culpa for years
of telling women to
ignore it and "man up"

Apr 2, 07 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Salon Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh admits that sexist web trolls are a serious problem, despite her own longtime dismissal of the issue. Her mea culpa follows the implosion of programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra's blog after Sierra was assaulted, on her site and others, by crude sexual insults and... More »

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Internet • feminism • women • sexism • discrimination • blog

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