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Kristin M. Jones Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution ‘If you poured water on each frame, it would become a novel,’ Gloria Steinem said with wonder during her introduction to a recent screening of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s !Women Art Revolution (2010), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. It seemed an apt description of…
Is Make-Up Sex ‘The Best Sex You’ll Ever Have’? (VIDEO) HuffPost Women associate editor Emma Gray’s recent post “15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s” sparked a debate over what defines good sex and whether monogamy…
From China’s Weiwei to the Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda al-Mahdi, people are again busy using their naked bodies as a way to challenge authority and demand rights. Even in today’s much more sexualized world, public nudity continues to be a powerful form of protest. When nearly 100 supporters of dissident Chinese artist Ai…
STORY HIGHLIGHTS: UPDATE BELOW Sajjad Ashtiani appealed to Iran’s courts to spare his mother In an open letter, Ashtiani points out discrepancies in the case Sakineh Ashtiani, 42, was convicted of adultery in 2006 Her death by stoning could happen any day (CNN) — The son of an Iranian woman who faces execution by stoning…
The First Thing Young Women Do in the Morning: Check Facebook Young women are becoming more and more dependent on social media and checking on their social networks, according to a new study released earlier today by Oxygen Media and Lightspeed Research. In fact, as many as one-third of women aged 18-34 check Facebook when…
Over the past decade, Western media have repeatedly portrayed images of Muslim women as victims. We have read about the Taliban publicly beating young women who laugh in the street; we have read about the targeted killings of professional Iraqi women – doctors, journalists, lawyers – who represent an opposing view to an extremist agenda….
Technologies That Empower Women by Tom Watson Tom Watson is the author of CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing the World (Wiley, 2008) and managing partner of CauseWired Communications LLC, a consulting firm that works with nonprofits and causes. Courtesy of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation / Frédéric Courbet 5. E-Learning A public-private partnership…
The Facebook games that millions love (and hate) By Doug Gross, // –> — Early each morning, millions of farmers around the world rise to toil in their fields. By night, gangs of mobsters scheme and legions of poker players shuffle up and deal. Sure, none of it’s real. But the overwhelming popularity of so-called…