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Image from ucsdnews.ucsd.eduNext Monday night, HBO is showing a documentary called Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words. An activist, feminist, journalist and writer, Steinem co-founded Ms Magazine and spent her life advocating for women’s equality. Here’s her blog for more of her accomplishments towards this end.
The HBO special airs on the 18th at 9-10pm, and the Women’s Media Center has an entire page focused on it. Its objective is to get as many people to sit down …

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Amazon preparing for a battle (Queen Antiop or Armed Venus), by Pierre-Eugène-Emile Hébert 1860 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)Similar to China’s bound feet, American society has chosen the female breast as the core of feminine beauty. The rounder, fuller, and more pert the breast, the greater the appreciation, the lovelier the woman. The female body has taken on the requirements of society’s ideals, and women run to surgeons to be sliced open and …

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Considering that women comprise the majority of college students these days, it’s easy to take currently available educational opportunities for granted. The drive and courage of females from previous generations — ones where simply being born with two X chromosomes meant a lifetime of treatment as a second-class citizen — made it all possible for today’s students, researchers and professors to indulge their passions, …

Cross-posted from Conservatives 4 Palin with the express permission of its 15-year-old author, Madeleine McAulay. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and not necessarily those of The New Agenda.
In 1921, a portrait monument to suffragists Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucretia Mott was unveiled in the U.S. Capitol. This 1929 image features members of the National Council of the Woman’s Party honoring Susan B. Anthony’s birthday. Image courtesy of Library of Congress. (Click image to read more.)Within the walls of the United …

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Image from CARA-Seattle.orgDuring the Victorian Era, medical institutions all over the world established that women were inherently fragile and emotional creatures and that it had nothing to do with the fact that they were drowning in the suffocating waters of patriarchy that condemned them to the domestic spheres of their existence.
Depression over not having a voice or the power necessary to govern their lives, their homes, or their bodies was defined by the medical industry as …

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Just last week, while I was in Parshall, Colorado, I had the opportunity to listen to a private performance of a Western singer/songwriter, Juni Fisher.  Being an East Coast Northerner I never knew there was a difference between Country Music and Western Music.  I was educated by one of the ranch owners at the Bar Lazy J Ranch who was sponsoring the event that Western Music tells a story about Western life, about work …

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Image: Lou Rogers' Tearing off the bonds
Fourth of July is Independence Day for America. It marks the day the people of England separated from British rule and its tyrannical King in favor of freedom. It was July 4, 1776 that the Declaration of Independence was signed by the founders of America as they made their new democratic home in what we now call the United States of America. And it was in this new land, this …

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Donald RumsfeldAlthough not a big fan of Condoleezza Rice, I wanted to write a piece to congratulate her for speaking up against Donald Rumsfeld’s criticism of her abilities as a Secretary of State under the Bush Administration in a recent news article in Yahoo News.
Rumsfeld wrote in his book Known and Unknown that Ms. Rice “almost never wanted” to dissent to President George W. Bush. He also asserted in several interviews that Rice was …

Geraldine “Gerry” Ferraro, a former prosecutor and United States Representative, and who, in 1984, became the first woman to run for Vice President on a major party ticket, died Saturday from complications from a blood cancer she had been fighting for 12 years. She was 75 years old.
Ms. Ferraro devoted so much of her life to helping her fellow women. During Women’s History Month, it is right that we should recount her life story, and with reverence, express our gratitude. Geraldine Ferraro has earned her place in history for her …

The following article was written by Amy Siskind’s son for his grade school Women’s History Month school assignment .  His nom de plume is Harley.

Abigail Adams was born in November of 1744. Abigail’s birthday is unknown. She was called Nabby and so was her daughter. When Abigail met John, she thought that he was overweight and talked too much. They started to like each other so they got married on October 25, 1764.
A year later, their first child Nabby Adams was born. Three years later the family moved to Boston …