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Gadhafi's Revolutionary Nuns: An All-Female Team of Bodyguards Protects the Libyan Leader
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In the wake of the unrest/civil war/revolution in Libya, a lot of media attention has been paid to the eccentricities of their four-decade long leader and tyrant, Moammar Gadhafi. He’s been getting a lot of media attention for his wacky ways, his bi...[Read on] |
Danica Patrick: Hot or Not?
| by Ethan Austin.
Ethan Austin is a blogger for Play City, a website that encourages young people to use sports as a catalyst for positive social change
Danica Patrick is moving to NASCAR! Woohoo!!!! She'll be the first woman ever...[Read on] |
Kate Middleton’s Parents to Contribute Six-Figure Sum to Cost of Wedding
| Photograph by Tim Graham/Getty Images.New York, N.Y.—“It is something they absolutely wanted to do, and William graciously accepted,” a senior aide tells Vanity Fair writer Katie Nicholl, confirming the rumor that the Middletons would be making a si...[Read on] |
Confessions of a new fan, or "How I learned to stop worrying and love women's basketball"
| Confession time.
I have never played a game of basketball.
I have never even shot a basketball.
And had you asked me a year ago about basketball, I would have looked at you blankly and asked, "Doesn't it stop like, every five minutes?" or tried to comp...[Read on] |
Top Ten Wins for Women in 2009
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Protesters at a May 6, 2009 rally in the Dominican Republic against Article 30, a proposed constitutional provision that threatened to severely restrict reproductive health access. Although the provision eventually passed, extraordinary women-led...[Read on] |
Women on the Front-Lines of the Egyptian Revolution
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Women have been playing a major role in Egypt’s quest for self-governance for a long time. Sixty years ago, Doria Shafik led 1,500 women into parliament, demanding the right to vote. This action let to Shafik’s arrest and garnered internationa...[Read on] |
Are You Following The Seventeen Magazine Project Yet?
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Last month, 18 year-old Jamie Keiles caught the attention of several women’s Web sites when she announced her plans to embark on an unprecedented experiment into the female adolescent experience: The Seventeen Magazine Project. For her final mo...[Read on] |
Male Domination in Egypt is Only Half a Revolution
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(WOMENSENEWS)--The images of Egyptian men and women standing side-by-side in Cairo's Tahrir Square inspired and captured the attention of the world and shattered stereotypes about the restriction of women from political life.
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[Video] My Favorite Color
| As my friend, music journalist Steve Hochman, who brought this video to our attention says:
"Utter brilliance! Kutiman takes home-made music clips people post on YouTube and collages them into... well... utter brilliance!"
Check it out:
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Attention New York Liberty Fans: Free popcorn, lunch with Kia Vaughn
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Attention New York Liberty fans - need reasons to buy tickets to the games?
Here are a few: you can get free popcorn at games at Madison Square Garden, and if you buy VIP season tickets, you can have lunch with newly-drafted (Rutgers grad) Kia Vaughn.
I...[Read on] |
WNBA’s Atlanta Dream use Facebook to give tickets, get fans
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I love what I’m seeing from WNBA marketing teams lately .
They’re finally catching on to the fact that if they engage directly with fans online, they will start to generate some attention (without much investment).
Here’s the latest…
The Atlant...[Read on] |
Fanny Burney Pioneered Breast Cancer Awareness
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(WOMENSENEWS)--On the morning of Sept. 30, 1811, Madame D'Arblay received a note from her physician telling her to prepare for the amputation of her breast in two hours' time. The doctor directed her to find a way to divert the attention and attendance of...[Read on] |
Tea Party Women Could Change the Score, Long Term
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(WOMENSENEWS)--It could be the way Republican billionaire Meg Whitman is spending record millions of her own money on her gubernatorial campaign in California and attracting attention to her domestic-worker employment practices.
Or maybe it's the upset v...[Read on] |
Are We Paying Attention to the Wrong Gun-Toting Mama Grizzly?
| Though many political observers may be bewitched, bothered, and bewildered by Christine O’Donnell, Sarah Palin, and Sharron Angle, respectively, most are unaware of the formidable political force that is Kristi Noem, a Republican candidate for Congress ...[Read on] |
Feel the flow – musings on the mind-body connection
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It can happen on a ski slope, when the mountainside flies past in a timeless manner. It can happen on the crest of an uphill climb, as you realize you’ve stayed ahead of the other riders in the pack. It can happen on the soccer field as you unite with t...[Read on] |
Women directors breaking through in theatre
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Patricia Cohen seems to be on the gender and culture beat at the NY Times. She’s written two stories this week first the one on gender discrimination against women playwrights (full post on that coming) and now one on how women are having success as t...[Read on] |
Ladder to the Top: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
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This post was submitted by Bridget Copes, WCF Development Fellow
Audience members gathered and watched, rapt with attention, as women climbed ladders in a darkened ballroom. From atop their ladders,...
This is a content summary only. Visit Women and Po...[Read on] |
[Video] Female highschool pitcher signs National Letter of Intent
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High school varsity baseball pitching sensation Marti Sementelli is no stranger to media attention. Since her days playing Little League at age five with the boys, she has regularly garnered attention from local and national news media. At age 10 she made...[Read on] |
How will more Best Picture Nominees effect women?
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The Academy blew the minds of pretty much everyone following the film business by doubling the Best Picture nominees starting this year. So instead of five best picture nominees there will be ten.
The news was greeted with mixed emotions (as expected) ...[Read on] |
Gina Carano and Tara LaRosa get it on!
| Have you ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when a couple of girls get to chatting it up on the latest gossip? Well what if those two girls also happened to be two of the top female fighters in mixed martial arts, and one of them was listed as number 16 ...[Read on] |
Cannes Can’t – Where are the Women Directors?
| So the Cannes lineup in finalized and the abysmal showing for female directors is now set in stone. The festival added two more films to the competition lineup and not surprisingly, both were by men. That’s now 18 films competing for the Palme D’O...[Read on] |
In case you missed the Women's World Baseball Cup...this might be why.
| ...like I did. The Women's World Baseball Cup was held last month in Venezuela. The tournament gained attention (again not mine--I missed this whole thing; though I did read that there was very little media coverage; regular Sports Center watchers might b...[Read on] |
Recession, health care, and roller derby
| I was just talking to a friend the other day about how roller derby is such a hot topic in sport studies because it's a great venue for examining gender roles, subversion, aggression, alternative sport, sexuality, and a host of other things.And of course ...[Read on] |
Do the Balloon People Have a Right to Publicity?
| The boy in the balloon or, as it were, the boy not in the balloon, is a publicity stunt which has many people outraged, questioning the sanity of the boy’s father, the intelligence of the media, and the values of a media-driven culture. But other than t...[Read on] |
Hillary says she won't run for president again
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Yesterday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that she would not run for president again.
"This is a great job," Clinton said in the [NBC] interview broadcast Monday. "It is a 24-7 job. And I am looking forward to retirement at some point."
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