Emma Riches. Diagnosis: Insanity caused by childbirth
These days, work stress, postnatal depression and anxiety are addressed with compassion. But just a few generations ago, the women who suffered from these conditions, were confined to an asylum.
Victorian Women Sent to Asylums For Stress, Post Natal Depression and Anxiety – All Related to Hormone Imbalance
May 14, 2012 By Leave a Comment
India’s Surrogate Baby Factory – Westerners Implant Embryos in Desperate Women
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Above a cheap mobile phone shop in a chaotic street in north Delhi, there is a grimy apartment whose peeling walls are decorated with photographs of adoring mothers nursing their babies.
The woman cooing at her child in the biggest portrait is beautiful, white and affluent-looking — in stark contrast to the flat’s five residents, four of whom are pregnant, while the other is being pumped full of hormones in the hope she will soon conceive.
Women Uniting on the War Against Women
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Karen Teegarden (Michigan) and Desiree Jordan (New York) created a Facebook page called United Against the War Against Women, with the theory if they built it women would come.
War on Women Continues – Is Menstruation Going to be Monitored Before Absurdity Ends?
May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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The Cyclic Wisdom of the Goddess
May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Menses, Moon Lore, Magic, Measurement, and Mathematics Judy Grahn, in her 1993 book, Blood, Bread, and Roses: How Menstruation Created the World, developed her hypothesis within a modern construct when she stated, “…the menstruant, having the most direct connection with the lunar cycle, would have been the first to know; she had motive, method, and Continue Reading …
Women have always been healers
May 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
According to Barbara Ehrenreich and Deidre English, “Women have always been healers. We were the unlicensed doctors and anatomists of western history, abortionists, (not like abortionists of today), pharmacists, cultivators of herbs, and midwives. For centuries women were doctors without degrees, barred from reading books and attending lectures; instead, learning from each other, and passing Continue Reading …
Husbands Can Now Have Sex with Wives Up to 6 Hours after Death in Egypt
April 26, 2012 By 1 Comment
Egyptian husbands will soon be legally allowed to have sex with their dead wives – for up to six hours after their death.
The controversial new law is part of a raft of measures being introduced by the Islamist-dominated parliament.
It will also see the minimum age of marriage lowered to 14 and the ridding of women’s rights of getting education and employment.
Merle Hoffman, author of “Intimate Wars” and founder of ‘Patient Power’ on Holy Hormones Honey! April 30
April 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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Join Leslie Carol Botha when she interviews feminist activist Merle Hoffman, author of Intimate Wars – the Life and Times of the Woman Who Brought Abortion from the Back Alley to the Board Room on Monday night, April 30 from 6 to 7 pm MST on KRFC FM, community radio in Fort Collins, CO.
Secret Sterilization of Women in Uzbekistan for Population Control
April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Evidence gathered by the BBC suggests that the Uzbek authorities have run a secret sterilization programme over the last two years without women’s knowledge or consent. knowledge.
The War Of The Sexes – Are Men and Women ‘Fundamentally Incompatible’?
April 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The War Of The Sexes is a new book by Paul Seabright… first it is the war on women – now the war of the sexes – can’t we all just kiss and make up? If not, then it is time for the men to leave and give women a chance to clean up the mess – again. Actually women – we need to go to Cirque du Soleil’s Amluna – who needs this *&^% anyway?
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