http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3273&Itemid=72 This article discusses a group of women who started a drum society in order to help heal women. Drumming is traditionally a male-dominated role which has led to controversy among the Native Americans in the area. Because of taking on a traditional men’s role, these women have been ostracized and even banished from some … Read more
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/02/05/020511-opinions-column-parents-valenti-1/ Interesting opinion piece by feminist author Jessica Valenti regarding the failed logic of conservative politics to bash homosexual couples parenting children. She touches on the traditional gender roles in America as well. – Lenna Jones
OK, so that’s a silly headline, so is the headline for the actual article. But I just read this and thought it had some interesting ideas. While I think the hygiene hypothesis has been around and generally accepted for quite a while, it really doesn’t seem that anyone has linked it to different consequences for … Read more
Hey everyone, I found a pretty cool article about Protestant congregations and homosexuality that I thought I’d share with you guys: Cage and Wildman (2008). “Facilitators and Advocates: How Mainline Protestant Clergy Respond to Homosexuality.” Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 587-603. Cage and Wildman collected the perspectives of some “mainline Protestant” ministers (as … Read more
I tried to add this to my previous comment on Dr. Nawal in Egyptian Protests http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM1scxpmbWQ She is unbelievable–my mother actually remembers her leading protests as early as the 1940s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSBJwsjakcg&feature=player_embedded This conflicts somewhat with activist Gamal Eid who tweeted that he has not seen gunfire, or that it has been in the air–so it depends where one is–and there may be a time lapse between these two reports. M Russell
The following is a story from NPR that discusses the barriers for Latina women regarding HPV prevention and treatment. The department of Health Education and Promotion at East Carolina University is currently researching ways to educate women as to the importance of yearly testing as well as vaccination against the strains of HPV that are … Read more
http://www.globalissues.org/news/2011/01/26/8297 “Despite birthing 100 percent of the world’s children, growing 70 percent of the world’s food and performing 60 percent of the world’s labour, women only receive a fraction – a mere 10 percent – of the world’s income.”
Canonball, a U.S.-based feminist blog with international contributors, posted this piece about women’s involvement in the protests in Egypt against the rule of leader Hosni Mubarek. Women of all ages are standing up together to make their voices heard and showing that even in traditionally conservative areas of the world, women can be effective advocates … Read more
A low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it’s intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country’s rural areas. KAMPALA, Uganda (WOMENSENEWS)–A low-cost maternal ultrasound system that began as a class project by a group of college students … Read more