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Legs Together and Apart – Women's eNews
Oct 1, 2024 · The woman, Actress Madeline McCray, could not wait to tell me her own Legs story. Art can open minds. It can put people in touch with thoughts long repressed, and start conversations stemming from its visual/visceral stimuli. This happened when Women’s eNews Executive Director Lori Sokol cathartically revealed a story she had stored in the ...
For International Day of the Girl Child: Afghan girls share their ...
Jul 1, 2024 · The August 15, 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan devastated the lives of millions of Afghans. But the rights and freedoms of women and girls in particular have been progressively trampled by a series of edicts that have created a virtual system of gender apartheid.
In Deference to Men: Growing up in the 1950s – Women's eNews
Oct 1, 2024 · One account of growing up female in the 1950s was taped in a two-minute video interview with Letty Cottin Pogrebin, whose story is very much like mine. We both learned that ladylike postures, specifically with legs crossed either at the knees or ankles, and hands in lap, were typically mandatory for a female in mid-century society.
Amelia Earhart Marries George Palmer Putnam – Women's eNews
Aug 7, 2024 · Amelia Earhart Marries George Palmer Putnam. February 7, 1931. By Louise Bernikow Uncategorized June 25, 2003. (WOMENSENEWS)–She was 32 and never married; he was a decade older and just divorced. She was the most famous female aviator in America; he was a successful publisher (Charles Lindbergh was one of his authors), explorer and writer.
Placenta Spiritually Revered, But Not in the West - Women's eNews
Aug 7, 2024 · Based on the yin and yang dualism of Tao, burying the placenta either in a shady (yin) or sunny (yang) side of the wall is believed to enable the parents to choose the gender of the next child. The yang position facing the sun is usually favored because this will guarantee the next child will be a boy. Furthermore, a yin location could weaken ...
Birth Alert: Indigenous Newborns Still Apprehended in Canada
Oct 1, 2024 · Marcedes was one of four Indigenous women murdered by Jeremy Skibicki who was sentenced to four life sentences on August 28, 2024 for the murders of Morgan Harris, Rebecca Contois, Mercedes Myran, and an unidentified fourth victim named by members of the local Indigenous community as Buffalo Woman. “Me and my daughter come here a lot.
Commentary Archives - Women's eNews
Oct 30, 2024 · Schumer’s ‘No Kings Act’ Challenges the Sacrosanct Judiciary – While Giving Hope to Mothers. By Amy Neustein, Ph.D. & Michelle Etlin Commentary August 5, 2024. If we’ve learned anything from Schumer’s courageous act to overturn a jaded Supreme Court decision, it is to stop telling mothers that they are stuck in the judicial branch,
The Truth About the Sex Trade: Entry into the Life - Women's eNews
Aug 13, 2019 · The Life Story: Moments of Change is a groundbreaking new website and film project supported by NoVo Foundation that shines a light on the stories and experiences of women in the sex trade—also referred to as “the Life”—in an effort to provide better solutions that can prevent all girls and all women, cis, trans, and gender non-conforming, from being exploited in the first place, as ...
Holocaust Women’s Rape Breaks Decades of Taboo
Sep 12, 2016 · Holocaust Women’s Rape Breaks Decades of Taboo. The rape and sexual abuse of Jewish women during the Holocaust have been long overlooked. But when researchers probed, stories began to emerge as if they were old photographic film waiting for the right chemicals. (WOMENSENEWS)–Gender violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other ...