Thirty Performances That Remade Women's History
From Paste Magazine: Paste is celebrating with a look back at two decades worth of films and 30 talented female leads whose roles re-told an...
Oksana Loses Her Brave Battle
From the Sydney Morning Herald : An 18-year-old Ukrainian woman who prosecutors say was gang-raped, half-strangled and then set on fire in a...
Bat Mitzvah Turns 90
From Philly dot com : It was a simple walk from her seat to the front of the Society for the Advancement of Judaism, a New York City synagog...
Donut Dollies
From an article in the Huffington Post by Doug Bradley: Donut Dollies were single, female college graduates who were used primarily as mora...
Update on Egyptian Virginity Test Case
Following on from this June post on Egypt: Virginity Test On Female Protestors , comes this update from VOA : Perhaps more surprising than a...
Girl Scouts Turn 100
From WJLA : Known for their dangerously delicious cookies, the Girl Scouts are turning 100. The anniversary comes on the same month as Women...
Canonisation of Hildegard von Bingen
From Huffington Post : The Catholic Church seems ready to codify what music lovers have known for nearly a millennium: Hildegard von Bingen ...
Women of Note
From Limelight Magazine : Australia may be known as the lucky country, but it must not have seemed that way to many of the homegrown female...
Afghan Women Trapped In Tribal Law System
From CBS News World Watch : In Afghanistan, there are essentially two legal systems that exist in parallel. One is the Kabul central governm...
Chained Women
From the Jewish Daily Forward : Purim is a holiday that is about women’s power, in its different forms. Thinking about the roles of Queen V...
Apache Chronicle
From Indian Country Today Media Network : When documentary filmmaker Nanna Dalunde contacted Douglas Miles (San Carlos Apache/Akimel O’odham...
Women With Male Titles
From The Mary Sue comes a series of articles on ten women who took upon the titles of their male counterparts. While women taking titles no...
Helen Castor: She Wolves
From The Arts Desk : “Throughout our history, women and power have made an uneasy combination”. Dr Helen Castor made it clear the path to po...
Events Celebrating Women
China: Bald Girls, a feminist art show in the 798 arts district of Beijing opened on Saturday at the Iberia Center for Contemporary Art...
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