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Holy Hormones Honey! It appears that the objectification of women’s bodies takes place even during childbearing – a sacred time in a family’s life – especially for the mother and child. Can you imagine how traumatized the mother and the newborn must be during a birth rape?
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.
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.
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.
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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.
[Leslie Carol Botha: Imagine having to tape a note to your stomach asking the doctor not to take anymore organs out than what was agreed upon.] No Ovaries Removed Letters of Note March 2, 2012 On April 28th of 1952, medical staff at the Cedars of Lebanon hospital in L.A. wheeled an extremely nervous Marilyn Monroe to Continue Reading …
Sexism is critical to the discussion of domestic violence because it causes men to abuse their partners based on a sense of entitlement and superiority. It promotes many other practices and policies that mistreat women such as the issues that led to discussion of the Republican war on women.
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?
Amaluna invites the audience to a mysterious island governed by Goddesses and guided by the cycles of the moon. Their queen, Prospera, directs her daughter’s coming-of-age ceremony in a rite that honours femininity, renewal, rebirth and balance which marks the passing of these insights and values from one generation to the next.
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