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Komen, Go Back to Your Roots

Posted in Cancer, She the People, Women, tagged , , on February 5, 2012 | 3 Comments »

It seems the Komen Foundation folks were unprepared for the blowback — known in some circles as “Komen-tastrophe” — after their now apparently rescinded decision to halt funding to Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Planned Parenthood. But they should have known. If Twitter and Facebook can bring down [...]

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Campaigning Is Child Neglect? Since When?

Posted in She the People, Women, tagged , , , , on February 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

People criticize GOP candidate Rick Santorum for leaving his sick daughter’s side to campaign for the presidency. “She the People” writer Patricia Murphy wondered whether the criticism would be even harsher if Santorum’s wife was running for president instead. The old double standard: OK for a dad to work long hours, but not OK for [...]

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh: She Married Adventure, and Grief

Posted in Women, Writing, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I just finished “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead,” Anne Morrow Lindbergh‘s collection of diary entries and letters. Lindbergh was such a graceful writer, and yet today she’s remembered more for her marriage to aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh than for her books. I never hear writers talk about her work, but a more eloquent writer on the [...]

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Esme Barrera and the Womanly Art of Imaginary Self-Protection

Posted in Women, tagged , , , , on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

When I read about the murder of a woman, I do what most women do. I ask: Where did it happen? Was it on the street? In a car? Her home? Did she have an abusive partner? Or was the victim chosen at random? Was there a break-in? Was the victim alone? Was she doing [...]

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