Many critics and readers, including many feminists, have welcomed my book Vagina: A New Biography. Some critics, though – feminists too, of another kind – are accusing me of a form of contemporary heresy.
New Book offers Feminist Views on Arousal – Vagina – Brain Connection
September 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
What a Ride for Sally Ride – First American Woman to Fly in Space
July 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Sally Ride, the first American woman to fly in space, died on Monday at her home in San Diego. She was 61. Dr. Ride with fellow crew members at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida before an October 1984 flight aboard the Challenger.
Breastfeeding Moms Can Nurse in Milk Truck with Hot-Pink Areola and Flashing Dome Light for Nipple
June 3, 2012 by 1 Comment
[Leslie Carol Botha: Ya gotta love gutsy, artistic women. Jill Miller - has created a 'Milk Truck' for breastfeeding mothers in Pittsburgh who have been harassed for nursing in public. Is Miller the next Judy Chicago? She purchased a 1990 ice cream truck, painted the pink and outfitted it with a breast-milk pumping station, a rug and some chairs.]
Birth Control and the Bloviators: What Just Happened?
February 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Last week, before the great contraception compromise, as the “old boys club” attacked President Barack Obama for daring to require religiously affiliated hospitals, universities, and social service agencies—but not churches—to provide birth control coverage free of charge to their employees, Rachel Maddow had a question.
Given that 28 states have birth control mandates with which Catholic institutions comply, that some major Catholic institutions provide contraceptive coverage, and that new polling shows that the majority of Catholics agree that female Catholic hospital and university employees should have the same right to contraceptive coverage as other women, Maddow asked: How does the Beltway media narrative get so entirely captured by the other side?
“Girls Likes Us” — Rachel Lloyd’s Memoir Illuminates the Sexual Exploitation of Children
February 4, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Lloyd traces how a difficult childhood led to a hair-raising journey that encompassed risk, recruitment, violent abuse, breaking free from sexual exploitation—and ultimately healing. She now is a top activist in the anti-trafficking movement.
Rosa Parks
January 16, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Iconic Woman and The Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day I think it is only right that we take a moment to honor the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement, Ms. Rosa Parks, born Rosa Louise McCauley, on February 4, 1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. Rosa Parks’ childhood Continue Reading …
Susun Weed
January 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Iconic Herbalist, Healer and Wise Woman Growing up in rural Canada, I took the use of herbs and other plants as both food source and healing tonic for granted. When I moved to the States as a young woman, I left that that part of me behind. My life in Chicago was exiting and as Continue Reading …
N.Y. Suffragists Took the 14th to Polling Booths
November 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Yes We Did… Left, right, or independent — yesterday’s election was a paradigm shift of tectonic proportion. Millions of women joined together, gave time, talent and treasure and changed the out come of thousands of local, state and national elections. The millions of women who cast their votes yesterday did so under the hard-won ‘Grace’ Continue Reading …
