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Hurt’s Documentary Puts Hip-Hop on Hot Seat

By Juhie Bhatia ● Arts & Culture ● May 1, 2007

Byron Hurt was asking questions about hip-hop’s portrayal of women for years before Don Imus ignited an explosive national debate on the topic. Now screenings of his documentary “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” keep the discussion going.

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Prime-Time TV Sweeps Women to All-Time Lows

By Sandra Kobrin ● Commentary ● April 25, 2007

As TV networks head into their big sweeps and hotly compete for ratings and advertisers, Sandra Kobrin gapes at the demeaning and downright scary portrayal of women in our most powerful communication medium.

Wade Horn Departs; Rape Rate High in New Hampshire

By Moawad & Bowen ● Arts & Culture ● April 7, 2007

Mojadidi Opens Her Lens to Afghan Motherland

By Sharon Johnson ● Arts & Culture ● April 2, 2007

In post-Taliban Afghanistan, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi profiled her father’s struggles as a doctor in a maternal ward in deplorable conditions. Her new film, “Motherland Afghanistan,” is an indictment of the neglect of maternal health issues.

Feminist Art Crowds the Cultural Calendar

By Courtney E. Martin ● Arts & Culture ● March 19, 2007

In a landmark year for feminist art, the opening of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum of Art offers a final refuge from tokenism and exclusion. Does institutionalism also mean the end of a dissident era?

‘Stupid Cupids’ Are Cash Cows for Mass Media

By Sheila Gibbons ● Commentary ● February 14, 2007

The annual barrage of cutesy love stories is upon us. Fortunately, Sheila Gibbons offers antidotes: the Stupid Cupid awards, a book on the media’s love-industry machine and facts promoted during National Teen Dating Violence Awareness week.

Young Women Re-Craft Feminism as DIY Project

By Courtney E. Martin ● Arts & Culture ● February 9, 2007

For some young women the DIY movement offers a way to synthesize a resurgent interest in domestic arts into a new brand of feminism and participate in a broad, unstructured resistance to the mass-marketing of products and policies.

Street-Theater Pickets Played Against War Backdrop

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● December 22, 2006

Jan. 10, 1917: Spectacles begin outside the gates of the White House.

Many Make Safety Pledge; AIDS, Violence Unchecked

By Irene Lew ● Arts & Culture ● December 2, 2006

(WOMENSENEWS)–

Cheers and Jeers

United Nations agencies around the world are teaming up with rights organizations in the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign from Nov. 25 through Dec. 10.

‘Da Vinci’ Offers Chance to Discuss Gender Battles

By Helen LaKelly Hunt ● Commentary ● July 12, 2006

Public discussion of religious and Christian topics after the release of “The Da Vinci Code” has generated more heat than light. Helen LaKelly Hunt says the we should take this opportunity to respectfully discuss issues churned up by the movie.