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Cuts, Layoffs, Furloughs Diminish Our Arts

By Jennifer Clarke ● Arts & Culture ● May 13, 2009

The Melodia Women’s Choir will perform on May 16 in New York. But Jennifer Clarke, the choir’s founder, worries about the fate of female artistry as cultural institutions suffer and stimulus aid fails to recover ground lost in this economic downturn.

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Pregnant? Your Job Is To Take Care of Yourself

By Kimberly Allers ● Uncategorized ● May 8, 2009

In an excerpt from one of her “Mocha Manual” books, Kimberly Seals Allers, editorial director of the Black Maternal Health Series, gives pregnant black women some key, common-sense advice: Take time to take care of yourself.

Afghan Women Blaze Path in Contemporary Art

By Aunohita Mojumdar ● Politics ● August 17, 2008

A group of Afghan women are defying convention by studying and producing expressive contemporary art. Their work offers an abstract commentary on the restrictions that often govern women’s lives.

White House Defines Contraception as Abortion

By Allison Stevens ● Crime & Law ● July 16, 2008

Federal funding for family planning clinics could dry up under a proposal from the Bush administration. Pro-choice advocates attacked the proposal as an assault on women’s health and for expanding the definition of abortion to include birth control.

Women at Work Find Reinforced Glass Ceilings

By Jennifer Waldref ● Arts & Culture ● July 8, 2008

Promotion barriers, harassment, pregnancy and motherhood bias, unequal pay. Women in the paid work force say these are all pillars propping up a glass ceiling.

Spain Goes Pink; Pregnant Women Scammed in Texas

By Soguel & Matthews ● Politics ● April 19, 2008

‘Second Wave’ Publishing Shows Off Its Stamina

By Sheila Gibbons ● Commentary ● December 5, 2007

Ms. has turned 35 with a lavish Wonder Woman collector’s issue that is now on newsstands. Sheila Gibbons finds the magazine shares the celebration with other print publications from feminism’s “second wave.”

Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers Embrace Youth Culture

By Rita Arditti ● Politics ● October 23, 2007

Increasingly, the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo work through popular youth culture to assist the identity recovery of young people whose parents disappeared under the military dictatorship.

‘Brave One’ Puts Wrong Weapon in Women’s Hands

By Sandra Kobrin ● Commentary ● September 19, 2007

“The Brave One” offers moviegoers the spectacle of a woman on a blood-spattering vigilante rampage. Sandy Kobrin says the plot is a perverted fantasy of women’s actual relationship to guns and violence.

Women’s Studies Writers Vie for More Media Turf

By Courtney E. Martin ● Politics ● August 9, 2007

Women’s studies professors are restless in the Ivory Tower. Exhibit A: At the recent annual meeting of the National Women’s Studies Association, the workshop that drew the big crowd was on how to land a big book deal.