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"Evil Is Coming In Through The Woman"

One of the tricky parts about Blogging While Feminist is deciding which issues are worth tackling. Some days, it's far too tempting to be sidetracked by outrage...or the outrageous. Other times, it's...

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Dirty Birds and Dingoes

In the Antarctic summer of 1911-12, British explorer George Murray Levick spent what must have seemed like the longest weeks of his life in the heart of a massive Adelie penguin rookery in Cape Adare....

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Making Thomas Jefferson Proud

    It's been an amazing couple of weeks at Mr. Jefferson's University. The usual summer somnolence of the University of Virginia's historic Grounds was broken on the afternoon of June 10, when Helen...

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What We Miss When We Talk About Home Birth

     "Mindy Bizzell decided to have her second son at home partly because of money and partly because of faith...." This is the start of all home birth horror stories: pseudo-hippy or upper-class...

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Pussy Riot and the Vertical of Power

A Russian court yesterday ruled that three members of the feminist punk rock collective known as Pussy Riot will remain in jail - a crushing end to a day of rumors, reportedly out of the Kremlin, that...

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Breasts & Power: The Case of Adrienne Pine

   Professor Adrienne Pine & Lee (Photo: Good Morning America)   There’s one inescapable conclusion to draw from the story of the professor currently making national headlines for breastfeeding...

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Is Monica Lewinsky Really Looking At A $12 Million Book Deal

Rumors have been swirling that ex-presidential ex-mistress Monica Lewinsky was not only shopping a “shocking” new tell-all book about her ill-fated Oval Office tryst with Bill Clinton, but that she...

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What If Chris Stevens Wanted His Journal Made Public?

  Anderson Cooper devoted a large portion of Monday’s AC360 to defending the network against State Department broadsides for the use of portions of a document written by U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher...

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"We Came, We Stripped, We Conquered:" A Case For Femen

     Femen Protestors (via GlobalPost.com) This week marks the fourth anniversary of the founding of Femen, the Ukrainian feminist group that has grabbed global headlines for their topless protests,...

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Why I Support Keeping a Woman On British Banknotes

  I’ve never visited England. As with so many things in life, this is not from lack of desire as much as lack of funds. Usually, my interest in British currency extends only to the current exchange...

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