St Gallen museum reveals the art of striptease
Visitors to St Gallen’s fine arts museum may feel a little overdressed, as a new exhibition celebrates the art of striptease.
“Striptease – concealment and revelation in art” takes a close look at how we’ve been undressing for the past 500 years.

Delhi girls rebel over dowries
In a rare and bold gesture three middle-class Delhi girls have refused marriage in the last 10 days.
The girls have also ensured the prospective bridegroom, or some other member of their in-law's family, has ended up in a city jail for demanding a dowry

Down on the Farm, An Up Trend for Women
At a time when the number of farms -- and male-operated farms, specifically -- is dramatically declining, farms operated by women are one of the few growth trends in agriculture, according to federal statistics and national farm experts. Women are the largest and fastest-growing group of small farm buyers, and some federal agricultural experts predict that a majority of U.S. farmland will be owned, and many of those farms will be operated, by women within the next two decades.

Woman collapses after judge asks if she's a terrorist
An Arab-American woman who was in court to fight a parking ticket when the judge asked if she was a terrorist "did not expect to hear that in an American courtroom," her stepson said Wednesday.

"You might expect to hear that from a street vendor, not a judge," said Hussein Khoder.

Providing DNA doesn't exonerate anyone: Police
Residents who voluntarily provided DNA samples to police probing the murder of 10-year-old Holly Jones aren't necessarily being ruled out as suspects, a police spokesman said today.
Those willing to submit to a DNA test aren't ruled out as suspects any more than those who refuse to co-operate are automatically considered suspects, Sgt. Jim Muscat told a news conference.

Police fitness tests made easier
Fitness tests for police recruits are being made easier in an attempt to increase the number of women officers, the Home Office has announced.

Students are giving colleges a lesson in free speech
College campuses, long viewed as forums for dissent and bastions of free speech, are looking more and more like legal battlegrounds.
In the second of what promises to be a series of lawsuits aimed at abolishing restrictions on student speech, a California student plans to file a lawsuit against his college in federal court today, saying limits on when, where and how he exercises his First Amendment rights are unconstitutional.

Judge orders abortion
for disabled woman
A Miami judge has ruled a mentally disabled rape victim should have an abortion because the pregnancy could be life-threatening, according to local press reports.
The woman, whose identity is not being revealed, is mentally retarded with the cognitive abilities of a 4-year-old, deaf, prone to having seizures and has a shunt in her brain to drain excess fluid.
Police believe the woman was raped, and likely more

Language on sexuality classes stays in budget bill
Kansas now has a completed $10.2 billion state budget, and it includes a mandate that state universities adopt policies for human sexuality courses.
Gov. Kathleen Sebelius on Friday signed a budget cleanup bill, the last spending measure for the fiscal year beginning July 1. She used her line-item veto to strike five provisions, including funding of a state office that reviews complaints from prison inmates.

Argentine contraceptive ban 'absurd'
The Argentine health minister has attacked as "absurd" and potentially catastrophic a judicial ruling banning certain contraceptives across Argentina.

Girls college dumps
pronoun 'she'
Students at all-female Smith College in Massachusetts have voted to replace references to "she" and "her" in their constitution with gender-neutral terms.
The move is in deference to a growing number of transgender people who feel uncomfortable with female pronouns, the Daily Hampshire Gazette reported.
The vote applies only to student-government documents, but is welcomed by school staff.

Equal-rights terrorism:
Bombs OK'd for gals
Women who wish to take part in a holy war against enemies of Islam now have the blessing to strap bombs on themselves.
The Jerusalem Post reports a leading global Muslim scholar has issued a Fatwa (religious order) permitting women to carry out suicide attacks.

Iran tells women to button up
Iran's conservatives are cracking down on women's clothing ahead of the baking summer.
Clothing shops and factories have been given a written order to stop producing clothes that stray from the strict female dress codes, the head of a clothing trade union in Tehran told a local newspaper.
Long, shapeless black coats and head coverings have been mandatory women's wear - regardless of religion - since the country's Islamic revolution 24 years ago

Antiabortion Group Plans 'Campus'
Founded 24 years ago, American Life is well-known in the movement for its traditional, church-based and uncompromising positions on abortion. Aligned with the teachings of Catholicism, the league goes further than some other organizations by opposing not only abortion under any circumstances, but also any form of birth control. Some antiabortion activists call league members "the hard-liners" of the movement.
Now the league is on a mission that critics and supporters alike are applauding: construction of a 70-acre educational center devoted to abortion-related issues, a combination college campus and boot camp that would teach about everything from stem-cell research to the history of Roe v. Wade to how to handle media interviews. The aim of the "Campus for Life" is to be a national clearinghouse, a central spot for a divided movement still reeling from the legalization of abortion 30 years ago

Self-inflicted victimization
Webster's Dictionary offers two definitions for the word victim: one that is subjected to oppression, hardship or mistreatment and one that is tricked or duped. Insert the word "easily" in the latter and you have the definition of another word found elsewhere in Webster's, which is equally fitting in meaning.
The disquieting fact is that both definitions are applicable to blacks today. One is more often than not self-inflicted victimization, the other is inflicted victimization.

Tough Broads
The video clip that seemed to play endlessly on the news for a few days gave a whole new meaning to "girls gone wild." Several teenage girls were brutalizing other girls huddled helplessly on the ground, hitting them with fists and objects, kicking them, smearing them with paint, mud, and feces. The attackers were not gang members but suburban high school seniors in Northbrook, Ill., subjecting junior girls to an "initiation" that got out of control.
Some of the victims were reportedly forced to eat mud, raw meat, and dog food; two had broken bones and one required stitches. The fact that girls were involved in this vicious act of hazing has undoubtedly heightened the media frenzy - simply because we are more used to boys pummeling one another, and because on some level, the sugar-and-spice stereotype of girls still endures.

SHE THINKS STIRS CONTROVERSY AT DARTMOUTH!
On May 1st, 2003 IWF National Advisory Board Chairman and noted author Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers delivered her speech Sex, Lies, and Feminism to more than 100 students at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. While the question and answer session after the speech was rather tame, the war of words that ensued on campus after Dr. Sommers left was fierce.

Thin Mints and AP Calculus
Munching on Girl Scout cookies this time of year? Here’s some food for thought—the Girl Scouts just unveiled a new project that doesn’t involve baked goods. Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) announced on January 6th that they’d teamed up with the Ad Council to produce public service announcements on girls, math, science, and tech jobs. According to GSUSA, women make up only 25% of the tech workforce in the country, and these jobs are the wave of the future. So the new radio and TV spots urge parents to make sure their daughters take lots of math and science classes and learn how fun these subjects can be. “It’s her future. Do the math,” the tagline says.

U.S. to Fund Gender Feminism in Africa?

On Friday, the Senate passed H.R. 1298, a $15 billion bill "to provide assistance to foreign countries [mostly African] to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes."
One of the "other purposes" is to teach gender feminism to African men and boys. American tax money will re-educate African men to "respect" women, presumably in the belief that men's bad attitudes cause AIDS.

Equality drive backfires on women
WOMEN drivers have long endured sexist jokes about their parking skills because, safe in the knowledge that they are better drivers and cause fewer accidents, they pay lower car insurance premiums than the more reckless males.
But men might soon gain an advantage if an EU directive to ban gender discrimination becomes law. It would force UK insurers to offer uniform price quotes to both sexes.

Swazi king upset by women wearing pants
Swaziland's king has singled out women wearing trousers as the cause of the world's ills in a state radio sermon that also condemned human rights as an "abomination before God".

"What rights? God created people, and He gave them their roles in society. You cannot change what God has created. This is an abomination before God," the king said.

Women Intensify Peace Protests
Liberian women continue to show resilience in their protest for peace rather than violence.
In continuation of their drive for peace, the women would lean the Streets of Monrovia beginning from the Airfield near the Fish Market in Sinkor to the main campus of the University of Liberia on Capital Hill.
According to the Acting Country Coordinator of the Women In Peace-Building Network (WIPNET), Mrs. Cerue Garlo, today's non-violent protest is intended to signal the Government of Liberia, stakeholders and representatives of the two rebel organizations who are to attend the pending peace talks at Akosombo, Ghana.

Getting girls into business
Women executives want to attract youngsters
It's not that girls necessarily have a sour view of business. The teen survey, sponsored last fall by the Simmons College School of Management in Boston and the Committee of 200, a national organization of top women business leaders, found that 85 percent of teenage girls and boys had a neutral to favorable impression of business overall.

A bitter sweet scenario for girls
It may come as a surprise but the fact is that despite the good performance of girls in SSLC, CBSE, and PU examinations, the female literacy in some of the districts of the State is below the national average of 50 per cent.
This could be because women, particularly girls, face a lot of difficulties as they grow up, and most of the adversities girls face are socially constructed and have nothing to do with inborn traits.

The book, a compilation of Schlafly’s essays and speeches written from 1982 through 2001, is accurately aimed at the flaws and faults of the radical feminist movement.

Perry signs Defense of Marriage Act into law
The measure barring Texas from legally recognizing same-sex marriages of civil unions performed in other states was signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Rick Perry.
The law takes effect Sept. 1.
Texas lesbian and gay lobbyists held a press conference on the south steps of the capitol to honor lawmakers who opposed the measure.

Campuses May Be Developing Tactics to Hide Rapes
Harvard University reversed its decision to make reporting a sexual attack on campus more daunting. Elsewhere, however, students receive little support for prosecuting their assailants and may be actively discouraged from pursuing a claim.

UN: Women Gain in Political Clout, Lag in Schooling
A new report by the United Nations indicates that women are gaining political power around the world, while they continue to suffer unequal access to education and employment.

Early Warnings on Abortion Enter 2004 Campaign
Democratic presidential hopefuls warn that a woman's right to choose will not survive a second term of the Bush administration. Meanwhile, pro-choice advocates within the GOP see the issue as a liability for their party in 2004.

Critics Aside, 'Military Moms' Are Here to Stay
Some may be calling for an end to "military moms," but a military sociologist has found that women's participation in the armed forces rises amid demographic factors now present in the U.S.

Native American Veterans Honored Today
Native American women who served in the military will be honored for the first time this Memorial Day at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial.

AIDS Bill to Export 'Abstinence Only' to Africa
The effectiveness of a five-year, $15 billion, program to combat HIV-AIDS overseas may have been damaged, some fear, after congressional debate left it freighted with lobbyists' religious beliefs about sex, condoms and abstinence

Camryn Manheim and the "Girlfriend" Comment
When actress Camryn Manheim introduced her long-time friend Ann Cusack as "my girlfriend" at an April 14th charity event in Beverly Hills, CA, she apparently had no idea the firestorm of speculation that would erupt from her use of that adjective--but she probably should have.

Australia's The Secret Life of Us Makes No Secret of Lesbian Relationships
The most remarkable thing about the relationship between Chloe and Miranda on the hit Australian drama The Secret Life Of Us is not that they are two young women of different racial backgrounds who fall in love. But rather that this new lesbian relationship has been assimilated so inconspicuously into this highly contemporary TV show.

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