Gender Issues Digest – Edition 42 April 29, 2007
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Welcome to another bumper edition of Gender Issues Digest – this one covering notable Gender Issues news in March and April. Regular readers may have noticed that we have been off our normal 2-week cycle for the past 3 months and we plead guilty as charged thanks to a hectic work and travel schedule. As things settle down, we will hopefully be back to our normal routine sooner rather than later.
If time is short on your end as well, here are some recommended reads in this issue:
- Emmeline Pankhurst‘s infamous 1913 speech, arguably the speech that gave birth to Western feminism. Read the whole speech in 3 parts or get the gist from the edited version. Pankhurst was one of the leaders of the suffragette movement.
- Get an update on the issue of abortion in the USA, UK and Mexico under a variety of articles in that section. Particularly relevant for the USA case is the law article on the woman-protective legislation.
- The obituary of Mary Crisp provides a well-drawn portrait of a courageous Republican woman who went up against her own party for her belief in the woman’s right to choose.
- A Muslim woman finds that she is discriminated against for her choice of swimwear in Oxford as opposed to the American South.
Happy reading and discussing!
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Interviews, Profiles and Obituaries
Interview: Andrea Madarassy – The woman leading the fight for working mothers
Interview: Ann Sophie Pic – First female Michelin 3-star chef in France for 50 years
Interview: Camellia Panjabi – Indian entrepreneur and owner of food empire
Interview: Leslie Bennetts – Author and U.S. advocate for working mothers
Interview: A.M. Homes – Writer
Interview: “It’s okay to be dark”, Madeleine Peyroux – contemporary interpretive jazz-blues singer
Interview: “Now we’ve got a backlash”, Meera Syal – British Asian comedian and writer
Interview: Sophie Ellis Baxtor – British pop diva
Interview: Katharine Hamnett – Green British fashion designer
Interview: Tyra Banks, supermodel, on weight, body image and the media
Interview: Segolene Royal – potential next President of France
Interview: Julie Christie – Actress and 60s icon
Profile: Barbara Stanwyck - late American actress
Profile: Daphne Du Maurier – late novelist
Profile: ‘Ask me anything!’ – Beth Ditto on her new fortnightly agony aunt column
Obituary: Mary Crisp – GOP official rebuked by Reagan over her views on abortion, aged 83
Obituary: Dakota Staton – charismatic jazz vocalist known for her ‘blues ballads’, aged 76
Obituary: Juanita Millender-McDonald – who represented California in House, aged 68
Special focus: Emmeline Pankhurst, a mother of women’s rights
Issue: The State of Gender Politics Today
The liberation of the sexes from their pink and blue fates have hardly begun
Up the revolution! Why there are so many good reasons to be a modern feminist
We’ve never had it so good – does Generation Y’s women’s lives really live up to the hype?
Who says middle age is a crisis for men?
The significance of the boy-girl ratio in British schools today
Why a woman’s place is in the kitchen
Issue: Women, Work and Achievement
After adopting term limits, states lose female legislators
Beauty before age – on rising star in photography, Alex Prager
Why men can’t manage women and why women in their 30s are increasingly striking out on their own
A new breed of ‘olderpreneurs’ – women striking out on their own after retirement
City trader says bank’s culture of sexism forced her out of job
When will we stop penalising working mothers?
Mothers face job discrimination, according to report
Tesco joins job share scheme to help women
Computer science takes steps to bring women into the fold
Failure for these women could haunt a generation of politicians
In praise of… women in business
Ladies who lug – female band managers and roadies
Menstruation question outrages India’s female professionals
Wellesley class sees ‘one of us’ bearing standard
When women lost the lead in the film industry
Why Fergie and Heather Mills have been reborn in the USA
Clinton gladly plays the gender card
BBC Dragon: I wouldn’t hire fat people
Issue: Violence against Women
Huntley sex victim wins damages
Japanese businessman acquitted over Blackman’s murder
How the web became a sexist’s paradise
A call for manners in the world of nasty blogs
Japan’s ‘atonement’ to former sex slaves stirs anger
‘They keep on killing and killing’ – the killing of women and girls in Guatamala
‘The abuse wasn’t about sex. It was about control’
Pope ‘did not help girls abused by Florence priest’
Polygamous Nigerian lesbians flee Sharia
Dangers for women travelling solo
Teenage victim of asylum scandal faces deportation
Issue: The Politics of Contraception, Abortion and Reproduction
Mexico City legalises abortion early in term
Vote could end Mexico’s abortion subculture
Abortion doesn’t boost breast cancer risk according to large-scale long-term study
U.S. Supreme Court upholds ban on abortion procedure
The new politics of abortion: An equality analysis of woman-protective abortion restrictions
Abortions ‘crisis’ threatens Britain’s NHS
‘Intolerant’ doctors blamed for looming abortion crisis
Nurses ‘could perform abortions’
Delay in detecting pregnancy blamed for many late abortions in the UK
‘I knew where I stood on abortion. But I had to rethink.’
Spitzer pushing bill to shore up abortion rights in New York state
Bush’s US$1bln ‘Don’t have sex’ campaign a flop
Pill that eliminates period gets mixed reviews
Perfect timing – can natural family planning work?
Woman loses final embryo appeal
Women face rationing of fertility treatment in UK
Issue: Gender and Health
A new plan to combat obesity in UK schoolgirls
Building strong bones in the womb
Device offers hope in cutting stillbirth rates
Mothers miss a ‘friend’ as health visitors decline
Red meat ups breast cancer risk
HRT linked to 1000 deaths from cancer
Breast cancer rates fell after hormone treatments declined
Texas legislators block shots for girls against cancer virus
Issue: Gender and Sexuality
Seeking the keys to sexual desire
Pas de deux of sexuality is written in the genes
Sex theme park to open in London
Everything you need for an all-night party
Issue: Modern dating, marriage and relationships
A ‘First Spouse’ in France? Not any time soon.
Giving new meaning to ‘whirlwind courtship’
Hey! You’re breaking up on me!
Why is it no longer acceptable for a woman to say her greatest aspiration is to fall in love?
Would you buy a date from a cad?
In a crowded online field, it’s more than a pet project
Romantic revulsion in the new century – Flaw-o-matic 2.0
The perils of dating with family in tow
Chinese slough off old barriers to divorce
Issue: The state of the modern family
One-parent families on the rise in the UK
Bee Lavender on having a child at 18
The women laughed as they forced toddlers to fight
Numbers drop for the Married-with-Children
Issue: Gender, Fashion, Beauty and Self-Image
A touch of the oh-la-la – how French women look after themselves
Age-old rules – how to grow old gracefully in dressing
‘How do I look?’ – Cilla Black, British Singer and TV presenter, age 67
Nancy Pelosi, respectfully maintaining her own image
Time to put an end to skinny-bashing
Top surgeons offer budget breast ops
In apparel, all tariffs aren’t created equal
Miscellaneous
‘China women town’ to be built
Women in basketball team unsure if they will accept Imus’s apology
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