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Huda Shaarawi, one of Egypt’s first feminists, was part of the movement to end Britain’s occupation after World War I. In this excerpt from her grandmother’s biography, “Casting Off the Veil,” Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi recounts how Shaarawi led a historic march.
After the dangerous delivery of her third child, Marie Colonna decided it was time to protect her own longevity. Excerpted from “The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin.”
GOP women are poised for gains in Congress in 2012, either by leaps or baby steps. ShePAC is optimistic, despite Jean Schmidt’s March 6 upset in Ohio. Judy Biggert’s race to keep her seat in Illinois is a lynchpin race.
Be thankful it’s November. “Pale Male” flies into theaters Nov. 24 and before then the calendar offers a banquet of films by-for-about women. The spread began Nov. 4 with “Another Happy Day” and includes the stunning French film “Tomboy.”
A Delaware clerk of the peace is happy that his days of performing wedding ceremonies for underage, pregnant brides will soon be over. But a number of other states still have marriage provisions that conflict with their own laws on statutory rape.
Even though most U.S. mothers work for pay they often face a myth of women happily at home with the kids. It’s a centuries’ old story of fiction over fact that will only end when women refuse the role of unpaid caregivers and labor is equal at home.
An HIV-positive mother in Lesotho struggles to pay for lifesaving drugs and her husband’s funeral costs. Third in a series on African women coping with AIDS at different life stages.