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DETROIT, Aug. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Inforum, Michigan's leading business forum for women, announced today it will launch a new speaker's series highlighting women with lessons for anyone who feels stuck in a rut or stifled by conventional thinking. The series, called IN4M: After Hours, Ahead of the Curve, will kick off Wednesday, Oct. 20, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center. The featured speaker will be Susan J. Douglas, a University of Michigan communications...
NEW YORK, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- How are women faring on "equality"? What remains unequal? Is equality really the summit for progressives and feminists, or only one more mountain to climb? With the 90th anniversary of women's right to vote upon us -- and August 26th designated as Women's Equality Day -- On The Issues Magazine invited writers, artists and poets to consider the elusive search for equality and its flip side, double standards in our lives, for "EQUALITY: How much further...
NEW YORK, July 16 /PRNewswire/ -- SELF Magazine and the makers of STAYFREE® pads, CAREFREE® liners and o.b.® tampons are excited to announce an innovative collaboration for this summer's return of the 2010 Lilith Tour. After a decade-long hiatus, the music festival has returned to once again celebrate and empower women in music. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100716/NY36008-a ) (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20100716/NY36008-a ) (Logo:...
MILFORD, Conn., June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- A new book that has been called a male version of Sarah Silverman's "The Bedwetter," and likened to "Animal House" and "Porky's," is perfect for summertime reading and relaxing. "Stories I'd tell My Children (but maybe not until they're adults)" is mostly pants-wetting funny, sometimes poignant and profound, often bawdy, and always engaging and enjoyable. It's a collection of more than 100 stories that span 55 years: pre-school, in school, and after...
NEW YORK, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Bad Media LLC announced its first e-book, Betty Dodson: My Sexual Revolution, the eagerly awaited autobiography covering the life of pioneering feminist and sexologist Betty Dodson, PhD. This marks Betty's first new book since penning the feminist classic Liberating Masturbation (1974) and the international bestseller Sex for One (1986 - over 1 million copies sold). Going on sale Thursday, May 20 the book will be available at Ms. Dodson's website,...
NEW YORK, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- How do we, as feminists and progressives, keep thinking fresh and alive during these difficult times? How do we feed our heads? In "The Feminist Mind," writers and artists address "out of the box" learning. Can engagement with the arts through imagination and empathy teach us to be better citizens, as Arlene Goldbard suggests? Will taking control of the media and airwaves encourage feminists and progressives to cut through the mainstream's message? Jennifer...
New study flags damaging effect of joining a sorority on body image and eating behaviorsUndergraduate women who join a sorority are more likely to judge their own bodies from an outsider's perspective (known as self-objectification) and display higher levels of bulimic attitudes and behaviors than those who do not take part in the sorority's recruitment process. Over time, those women who join the group also show higher levels of body shame. These findings¹, part of Ashley Marie Rolnik's...
Proceeds from the Benefit will go toward The City of Joy, a safe house and leadership community under construction in the Democratic Republic of Congo Work donated by renowned artists to be auctioned off at the benefit NEW YORK, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The second annual Women of the Congo Benefit, hosted by a planning committee of women from New York, Connecticut and Long Island, will take place from 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. on Tuesday October 20, 2009 at the W New York, 541 Lexington...
NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- On The Issues Magazine launched "Our Genders, Our Rights," its Summer 2009 edition. A unique combination of articles, poetry, art and videos focus on a topic that is both utterly fundamental and wildly revolutionary: gender norms and gender identity. Top writers discuss sex-selection abortion, gender expression, "Intersex" self-identification and a first-hand account of forced sex roles inside a polygamist compound in Texas. Publisher and Editor-in-Chief...
MOSCOW, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- International Women's Day is celebrated around the world, but has special significance in Russia and CIS. Each year Russian Women anxiously await this singular day that honors them in their many dimensions. Hundreds of events are held not just on the 8th, but throughout March to pay tribute to women for who they are and what they've achieved. A key development for Women's Day came on March 8, 1917 in Russia when women organized mass strikes over the...
