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The Ukrainian women’s group troubles some feminist activists because of their self-objectification of the female body and the fairly uniform appearance of the group, says Valerie Sperling in this excerpt from her book “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia.”
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President Obama has nominated Janet L. Yellen to lead the Federal Reserve. She would be the first woman in charge of the nation’s money supply. In Chicago a sheriff’s office has been accused of conducting videotaped strip searches without due cause.
Four sisters won a court of appeals case to inherit their father’s property in Botswana this week. But author Sushmita Banerjee was killed in Afghanistan by suspected Taliban militants.
A lashing sentence for a 15-year-old was overturned by a Maldives court. But a Gallup poll indicates that 15 percent of American women were passed over for a promotion or an opportunity at work because of their gender.
American voters overwhelmingly favor proposals that would provide women equal treatment in the workplace. But scandals surrounding two male politicians further flared up this week.
Three European activists face up to six months of prison for staging a topless protest in Tunis to demonstrate support for a Tunisian ally, Amina Sboui, who is facing legal problems of her own.
Abortion-rights this week were bolstered by court rulings in Arizona and Arkansas. As for the military’s treatment of women, the negative news went on, as a U.S. West Point military sergeant was accused of photographing and filming female cadets taking showers.
The April 4 agitations of the breast-baring iconoclasts serve few Muslim feminists. Many of us are pro-women and pro-Islam and we insist on that fusion.