#womensstories
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#womenslives: The Yellow Wallpaper: a 19th-century short story of nervous exhaustion and the perils of women’s ‘rest cures’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 1, 2018The Yellow Wallpaper enlightens the reader on women’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown and its treatment, as well as feminism and gender relations in late 19th-century America. Though many detai...
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#womenslives: #womensstories: women in blue-collar workplaces on harassment – @nytimes
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #gender, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 25, 2018A woman on a repair crew was deliberately stranded on top of a 200-foot wind turbine by her male co-workers after enduring months of lewd taunts. An aerospace worker got the nickname Bird Seed because...
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#research: #womensstories: when the personal becomes political: exploring the power of abortion storytelling – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #womensstories, #quickhits, #women / September 28, 2017Kate Cockrill and her research parter Antonio Biggs wanted to know if storytelling could help reduce the stigma around abortion. Aware of the harsh judgement often associated with abortion and other...
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#womenslives: “I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / September 7, 2017I stumbled across the gravel walkway to the main office. A bell dinged when I opened the door, but the receptionist didn’t greet me. There was an unspoken agreement between us. If she didn’t look at m...
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#womenslives: costly, traumatic nightmare of being undocumented and pregnant – @Madame_George on @broadly
By feimineach / in #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #womenslives, #law, #womensstories, #quickhits, #women / June 2, 2017Undocumented migrants already struggle to access healthcare, but doctors warn that the problem is especially acute among pregnant women. Li fled to the UK in 2012, escaping persecution in China for ...
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#womenslives: If you want to know about Muslim women’s rights, ask Muslim women
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 17, 2017Islam’s patriarchy and western feminism have said a lot. Now Muslim women who fight sexism (yes we exist) must be heard Within minutes of arriving to collect my professionally bound thesis, I found...
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#womenslives: “My abortion made me appreciate all that abortion providers do for women” – @broadly
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / March 13, 2017I was nervous before my abortion. Even though I was confident in my decision to end my pregnancy, and even though I knew I would receive excellent care, I found myself shaking as I climbed onto the ex...
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#womenslives: “Most women can think of many occasions on which they were told…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 30, 2016#womenslives:Most women can think of many occasions on which they were told that what was hurting them was not. I remember a gynecologist with thick and senseless hands, who expanded the speculum ang...
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#womensstories: abortion was my only choice -@msmagazine
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 20, 2016So what were my options? Force my grief stricken self through 9 months of pregnancy? Raise a child I was unfit to care for, or give the baby up? Anti-choice advocates are always so quick to suggest ad...
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#womensstories: I had a miscarriage. Fetal burial rules would only amplify my grief – @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 12, 2016My son would be turning 20 this month. He was due on December 15, 1996. But in June of 1996, when I was entering the second week of my second trimester, I had a miscarriage — in medical terms, a spont...
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#womenslives: No sleep for Congolese mothers trying to save their girls from rape
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / December 7, 2016The mothers of Kavumu hardly sleep. But on rainy nights, they don’t even try. The rain pounds on their tin roofs so noisily that they worry they won’t hear rapists breaking in to steal their daughters...
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#womenslives: I’m with her (still)
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / November 25, 2016I’m with her (still). @medium: @FitLizzy: #womenslives: On Thursday, I woke up defiant. I put my Hillary t-shirt back on. I charged the streets in broad daylight, so everyone would see. Cars honked. M...
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#womenslives: “I have never been sexually assaulted.”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / November 25, 2016#womenslives; #womensstories: I have never been sexually assaulted.When I was eight, I was riding my bike down a main street in my home town when a group of men drove by. I would never have noticed th...
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#womensstories: Girl power: four Irish women and what feminism means to them
By feimineach / in #womensstories, #quickhits / August 12, 2016Girl power etc. (Irish Examiner) #womenstories from Ireland. The first excerpt is from Louise O'Neill. Tara Flynn, Andrea Horan, and Sarah Maria Griffin also contribute. (Aside: have you ever seen a l...
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#womenslives: he thinks you’re a hoe anyway! the -1 vs. +1 woman’s value theory – @thefeministwire
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / August 5, 2016By the by, this is a really great series of posts (feministwire) where women talk about their lives, stories, experiences, and feminisms. Look for emerging feminisms on feministwire. This one:He Think...
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#womensstories: Sexual education was severely lacking at my grade school
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / July 27, 2016Sexual education was severely lacking at my grade school, because the students were only allowed to know sex is on a biological level, and how bodies grew when they went through puberty. We weren’t in...
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#womensstories: “I carried his name on my body for nine years”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 23, 2016#womensstories: ‘I carried his name on my body for nine years’: tattooed trafficking survivors reclaim their pastThe flower on Jennifer Kempton’s neck starts just behind her right ear, fanning in inky...
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#womenslives: “Having an abortion was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 20, 2016Having an abortion was one of the most difficult decisions I’ve ever had to make, but it was the best decision for me, at that time in my life.In November 2012, I was living the dream—literally. In 20...
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#womenslives: “We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 19, 2016“We need to move away from the oppressive myth that rape and assault only happen in violent fits of rage” Every woman has been a little bit raped’: the complicated politics of ‘No’ ...
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#womenslives: “My one minute rape story.”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #womensstories, #quickhits / May 19, 2016My one minute rape story (on @estblshmnt)I was raped again last night. Again. It was a small rape. Un petite râpé (it sounds so much softer, less threatening, in my mangled French). A rape with a soft...
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