UΝ WΟΜΕΝ: THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND GENDER EQUALITY
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Why women are increasingly at the mercy of the Ebola outbreak
Across Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone women continue to be infected and killed by Ebola at devastatingly high rates. The reasons behind this are largely recognised; gender roles, understandings and practices lay at the heart. Surprisingly, these are not so detached from those we face in the ‘West’. Although gender dynamics continue to position women …
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Femme Fatale
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Waiting: A Poem by Faith Wilding
Waiting . . . waiting . . . waiting . . . Waiting for someone to come in Waiting for someone to hold me Waiting for someone to feed me Waiting for someone to change my diaper Waiting . . . Waiting to scrawl, to walk, waiting to talk Waiting to be cuddled Waiting for someone …
缠足 Bound Feet Tradition in China
This article explains in great detail the excruciating process of achieving bound feet and it’s historic origins in China. Multiple theories attempt to explain the origin of foot binding: from the desire to emulate the naturally tiny feet of a favored concubine of a prince, to a story of an empress who had club-like feet, …