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Gone are balaclavas, boots, wool stockings, angular fighting gestures, distorting jangling guitars and screaming voices. All that is defining for a group of everyday women transforming themselves into masked underground protesters.
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.”
Female ski jumpers will compete Feb.11 for the first time in this event since the Winter Olympics began 90 years ago. In the backdrop, protests and boycott calls continue against the Sochi Winter Games over Russia’s discrimination of gays and lesbians.
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In the new center of Mideast turmoil, the number of sexual assaults of female protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square has continued to grow. Women’s groups say they will not be deterred by the violence.
Before immigrating to the U.S. in hopes of a better life, Oksana Marafioti recalls the racism she faced in the Soviet Union for being a Roma in this excerpt from her book “American Gypsy.”
The two-year sentence handed down to members of Russia’s feminist punk collective Pussy Riot spurred protests in dozens of cities around the world.
Community health workers seek out women in immigrant communities on their turf and in their language. In some Vietnamese neighborhoods that means going to cosmetology trainings to meet workers headed for nail salons.
Female asylum seekers held at the Yarl’s Wood British detention center are suing the government for severe mistreatment. An inspector’s recent report on the center finds women there are neglected.
In Russia, 14,000 women are killed each year in acts of domestic violence, and human rights activists are dissatisfied with the government’s enforcement of laws against the crime. Sixth in a seven-part series on the Beijing Platform.
Women in Finland enjoy such a hardy political reputation that the country’s famous wife-carrying contests are treated as something of a national joke. But some women have begun probing their uber image and finding a few puncture points.