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Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1489
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Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1545
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 2025 May 2025 3 1418
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It really should have been a deal breaker for everyone. . . 1 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 18 1408
sometimes the word "oppression" seems to have fallen by the wayside. . . 0 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 3 991
Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1313
Faux feminism has left the planet 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 6 1218
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle's Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music 1 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1080
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1088
Profiles in Courage: Danielle Sassoon, a Prosecutor of Principle, Quits After Rejecting Trump-Appointed AG's Order to Sh 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 988
American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1318
Advancing global development by empowering women 0 Celerity Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1075
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 3 niyad Mar 2025 Apr 2025 4 1494
'It means death': Afghan women's rights activists face deportation from Pakistan 0 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1263
Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back? 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1454
The SAVE Act's Impact on Women Voters Isn't a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1135
Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1265
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI' 12 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 2255
The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1555
The GOP's Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women's Right to Leave 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1500
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1189
A Challenge to the Health of Pregnant Workers--and the Health of Our Constitutional Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1317
'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1514
Education Is a Right 3 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1165
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners - report 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1188
Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza 'genocidal': UN probe 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1273
" Days of the Theocracy"-- Kristin Lems 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1013

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Paris Paloma, Labour with lyrics 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 966
Convention of the Cayuga County (NY) Political Equality Club program, 1914 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1001
International Women's Day 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1545
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Will Be a Disaster for Women 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1378
Women's HERstory Month 2025--Moving Forward Together 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1187
Against the Normalization of Trump's Misogyny 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1104
Presidents' Day and the Legacy of Exclusion: Why Women Still Struggle for the Oval Office 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 997
Montana Lawmakers Vote Down Bill That Would Have Treated Cross-Border Abortion Seekers as Traffickers of Their 'Unborn 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1233
Ten Warnings the New Gabby Petito Netflix Doc Reveals About Coercive Control (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1176
And the Oscar for Best Documentary Should Go to ... 'Black Box Diaries' (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1079
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1692
Activists call for state of emergency in Nigeria over gender-based violence 0 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1125
cross posting here cuz 0 mopinko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 995
Dumbest man ever calls AOC dumbest Congresswoman ever elected 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1577
New York doctor indicted in Louisiana abortion case recognized as a leader in women's reproductive health 1 Quiet Em Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1086
Iowa sexual harassment male gets job with Iowa girls athletics org. 0 suegeo Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1394
Anisa Yousaf, survivor of a forced marriage: 'Parents should give their daughters freedom of choice' 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1099
Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1138
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks its level of 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1259
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 657
an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman 10 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 14 2429
Women's Paychecks Are Shrinking--And Policy Isn't Keeping Up 6 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1713
T####'s Pardons of 23 Antiabortion Extremists Endanger Providers and Patients 4 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1467
'Nasty' Women Beware: Trump's History of Demeaning and Silencing Women 1 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1307
Sierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1270
Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1076
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State Government 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1030
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration's Wave of Extremist Actions 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 852
Government's reproductive rights resource goes dark hours into new Trump administration 5 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 2669
Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1097

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband 0 Quiet Em Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1083
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. An Origin Story 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1798
🌺Lawrence Tribe (Harvard) & Kathleen Sullivan (Harvard & Stanford) THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AT LONG LAST 2 Hekate Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2065
Misogynistic Tirade at Fan During Football Game Costs Miscreant His Job and Ban from Stadium 29 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 56 6595
Seen on FB, one of the best responses to self righteous, anti-choice zealots. 30 CrispyQ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 105 10231
Which women do men find most attractive 16 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 3895
Out of Touch on Menopause: Experts Respond to The Lancet's 'Over-Medicalization' Claims 3 niyad Dec 2024 Jan 2025 5 1809
Before the Stopping Starts (menopause) 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1594
'When Power Curdles Into Violence': Escaping the Tradwife Lifestyle 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1311
'The Women Are Talking!' Up Close and Personal With Women World Leaders at the 2024 Reykjavk Global Forum 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1208
'Protect us alive, not dead': how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1102
'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza (trigger warning) 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1059
Ms. Magazine's Top Feminists of 2024 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1181
Flying Free: Wicked's Feminist Message 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 6160
The Path to Certifying the ERA Lies With Congress--Not the Archivist 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 997
Girls Join Historic Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1497
Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France's Mass Rape Trial 2 Beringia Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1265
USC Release Annual Title IX Data to the USC Community 3 ellisonz Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1410
Thousands rally across the world calling for end to violence against women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1176
Elections as 'Manhood Competitions': Feminist Political Scientists Reckon With Harris' Loss 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1185
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