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Gloria Steinem’s recent talk at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi kicked up quite a storm. A few days after the event the Delhi edition of The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper in English, provided uncommon space to different takes on issues of sex work/prostitution and human trafficking, the subject of Steinem’s talk.
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Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |
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This year’s International celebration brought it a nostalgic feeling for the women to engage with the young people. Yet over the years the women’s movement has not taken a deliberate approach to connect with and inspire the young girls.
This has made the phrase “women’s movement” sound archaic and many a times, it is referred […]
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Uncategorized, Feminism, International Media, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women |
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A recent report in The New York Times, For Many in Pakistan, a Television Show Goes Too Far, flags a raging controversy that “could well be the beginning of a media consumer rights movement” in the country
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The Blogosphere, Commercialism, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Youth Activism, Issues in the News, Outrages & Responsibilities, Reality TV |
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By guest blogger Jessica Mack
If you don’t know who Sahar Gul is, sadly, you can Google her name and find dozens of images of her young and badly beaten face. She is a 15-year-old Afghan girl who was recently rescued by police from her in-laws’ basement, where she’d been imprisoned and tortured for nearly a […]
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Age, Arms & Conflict, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Issues in the News, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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For years, I and other WIMN’s Voices bloggers have critiqued the many ways corporate media hypersexualize girls, reinforce rigid gender stereotypes, and contribute to rape culture. From cable news to reality TV, from newspapers and magazines to movies, music videos and games, images of women’s sexuality are commodified, ever-present… and rarely centered on women’s pleasure. […]
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American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Pop Culture, Violence Against Women, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog, Body Image |
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By Guest Blogger Anna Louie Sussman. (Cross-posted from Women In the World Foundation, a project of Newsweek/The Daily Beast.)
In the summer of 1993, Jennifer L. Pozner was a rising sophomore at Hampshire College, a journalism major with dreams of becoming a columnist - the next Barbara Ehrenreich or Molly Ivins, she hoped. Then The […]
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Advertising, American Culture, Commercialism, Feminism, Political Dissent, Media Justice Now, Pop Culture, Race, Violence Against Women, Body Image, Reality TV |
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Pink-illuminated skyscrapers greet me in downtown Philadelphia by night, and packages of pink-frosted cupcakes entice at my local Acme by day. It seems there’s no corner of our culture that’s NOT reminding us it’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month. First established in 1985 to encourage women to get mammograms, it has metastasized into a […]
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American Culture, Commercialism, Criminal Justice & Prisons, Health & Sexuality, Violence Against Women, Issues in the News |
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Guest Blogger Coco Papy
“Sluts are a figment of the patriarchal imagination…” –Nicole Ouimette
“You know there is a rapist out here, right?”
I pause, unsure of what exactly is happening. A Brooklyn police officer is now standing directly in front of me, so close I can see his uniform stitching and smell his breath. I have […]
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American Culture, The Blogosphere, Domestic Politics, Feminism, Health & Sexuality, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, Political Dissent, Pop Culture, Race, Violence Against Women, Girls and LGBT Youth, Youth Activism, Issues in the News |
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WHAT: “Women, Media, Revolution,” the 2011 Women PeaceMakers Forum
WHEN: October 5 - 7, 2011
WHERE: University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Theatre
COST: None; Events are free and open to the public and the media.
When I founded Women In Media & News in 2001, it was with the core principle that […]
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American Culture, Arms & Conflict, Feminism, Human Rights & Civil Liberties, International Media, Political Dissent, International Media Activism, Violence Against Women, War, WIMN’s Executive Director’s Blog |
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Sexual harassment experienced by female journalists in the line of duty recently became a topic of discussion in Indian media circles, thanks largely to a newspaper article…
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Health & Sexuality, International Media, Violence Against Women, Outrages & Responsibilities |
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