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Women Art Revolution (2010), at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

 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…

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Pinterest Is Killing Feminism: This is not where the internet was supposed to take us.

Art by John Gara. How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism This isn’t where the internet was supposed to take us.     Posted about a day ago One in five women over the age of 18 who regularly use the internet is on Pinterest, which had an estimated 23 million users users as of July. It also has an…

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PhotoShoot: India joins other Asian Countries in First Nude Protests of Freedom…

A Bollywood starlet has become the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy, sparking a wave of criticism in her home country where the magazine is banned.   Sherlyn Chopra, 28, will appear in the November issue. However, a series of teasing interviews has provoked a round of condemnation from women’s rights activists who…

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Women flock to erotic fiction: themes of vampires to BDSM. ( “50 Shades of Grey” #1 Best Seller )

Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora’s Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James       It might seem that women reading super-smutty romance novels is a new phenomenon, thanks to deafening buzz around the series whose name cannot be spoken. (Fine, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” There! I said it.) But to Patty…

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Nude Photo Leads To Publisher’s Arrest In Tunisia

  Sami Khedira Girlfriend Lena Gercke Tunisia (AP) — A court has released the publisher of a Tunisian newspaper accused of violating public morals by publishing a photo of a naked woman, pending a verdict in the case. The Attounisia daily printed a photograph of German-Tunisian football player Sami Khedira of Real Madrid dressed in…

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These “virginity tests” will spark Egypt’s next revolution

  It is the revolution of fighting the patriarch.   By Mona Eltahawy The Guardian There’s a thin line between sex and politics, and it is nonsense to keep repeating the mantra that Egypt’s revolution “wasn’t about gender”. What revolution worth its salt can be fuelled by demands of freedom and dignity and not have…

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Iranian Actress Banned From Homeland : Golshifteh Farahani Sparks Naked Rebellion On Facebook

Actress Golshifteh Farahani attends the ‘Poulet Aux Prunes’ premiere during the 68th Venice Film Festival at Palazzo del Cinema on September 3, 2011 in Venice, Italy. (Getty)   While the Iranian government may not be the biggest fan of native actress Golshifteh Farahani after her skin-baring photo shoot for Le Madame Figaro and for appearing…