Rock ‘n’ roll camps for girls are spreading across the country like swamp pop fever, encouraging fledgling female rockers to turn up amplifiers, bang on drum sets, make raucous music and feel good about themselves.
From cosmetics counters in luxury department stores to subways where performance art was carried out in secret, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence made all the world its stage.
If Thanksgiving finds you basting the turkey and feeling tied to the stove, take heart. Laura Schenone’s backward glance at suffrage cookbooks reveals a proud tradition of female radicals in the kitchen.
The women of Calama, Chile, have been digging in the sand for loved ones lost during the Pinochet regime. A new photo-exhibit documents their efforts at a pivotal moment in their long struggle for justice.
Women are firmly in the driver’s seat of Kenya’s film industry, but that doesn’t mean they have it easy. They face adversities, but they always tell their stories and entertain their audiences.
“Our Bodies, Ourselves” is more than ever becoming the basic text for women across the globe. Translators of the free-thinking U.S. text are expanding its reach from Argentina to Turkey and adapting it to cultural boundaries.
Pain is generally under-treated in the U.S., but women’s pain, in particular, gets neglected, according to studies. One woman with a severe and painful disorder that went undiagnosed for a decade is working to change that kind of gender bias.
Thirty-five years after their first meeting, the women who created Our Bodies, Ourselves–the popular reference that allowed women to take health information into their own homes–reflect on how their work shaped the women’s health movement.
Gillian Caldwell, executive director of WITNESS, uses and promotes documentary video to shed light on human rights abuses worldwide. Her 1997 work on sex slavery spurred passage of the U.S. anti-trafficking law of 2000.
James Brown was arrested for domestic violence two months after women’s rights advocates lodged a protest with the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, objecting to Brown’s inclusion among the 2003 honorees.
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