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Socially defined behavior regarded as appropriate for the members of each sex.
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Mozambique Attacks DV; UK Ethnic Women Are Poorer
Published July 4, 2009, 2:30 am, Women's eNews
The Mozambique parliament in Africa passed the first draft of a bill against domestic violence on June 29, reported the nation's official press agency. The bill imposes harsher penalties for crimes of domestic violence; currently domestic violence is treated as a simple assault case.
Need for debate on judgement on legalising homosexuality: NCW
Published July 4, 2009, 2:21 am, Hindustan Times
COMMENT ON THIS ! Your Views! The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Saturday said there was a need for a nationwide debate on the Delhi High Court judgement on section 377 of IPC which legalises homosexuality.
Need for debate on judgement on legalising homosexuality: NCW
Published July 4, 2009, 2:12 am, Press Trust of India
New Delhi, Jul 4 (PTI) The National Commission for Women (NCW) today said there was a need for a nationwide debate on the Delhi High Court judgement on section 377 of IPC which legalises homosexuality.
Plenty to celebrate on nation"™s birthday
Published July 4, 2009, 1:00 am, Centre Daily Times
The Fourth of July is my favorite national holiday. It is the ritual of our country’s birthin
A twist on tradition
Published July 3, 2009, 11:20 pm, Student Life
Jewish boys have Bar Mitzvahs and girls have Bat Mitzvahs when they turn thirteen. The ritual signifies a youth's entry into adulthood and Jews usually begin studying for the ceremony a year or more in advance.
Lebanon illiteracy report shows alarming urban-rural divide
Published July 3, 2009, 10:52 pm, Zawya
BEIRUT: If by naming Beirut as the 2009 World Book Capital the United Nations wishes to encourage the Lebanese to study more, its latest report should be a must-read.
HIGHTSTOWN: Celebrating a half-century of flowers
Published July 3, 2009, 10:33 pm, Windsor-Hights Herald
A half-century of flowers. That’s what the Rocky Brook Garden Club is celebrating this year as it marks its 50th anniversary.
Obesity plagues Kings County
Published July 3, 2009, 10:32 pm, The Hanford Sentinel
Their love for pork rinds, super-size soft drinks and ice cream isn't helping adult Kings County residents get any leaner, prompting health officials to warn more urgently: eat less and exercise. Even as California as a whole scored a low adult obesity rate in a recently released nationwide obesity study, Kings County and other Valley counties are still wrestling with some of the state's highest ...
Before Sec 377: A film-makers rights and justice for Bhopal
Published July 3, 2009, 9:38 pm, Express India
The Delhi High Courts historic decision to decriminalise gay sex equates sexual orientation with gender, caste, and religion....
Too many boys being born in Vietnam
Published July 3, 2009, 6:10 pm, The Jamaica Observer
HANOI, Vietnam (AFP) - Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books instructing couples on how to have a baby of their desired sex, state-linked media said yesterday.
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- What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com
- The Political Gender Gap Articles & Commentary: The Political Gender Gap
- Queer People's Health Collective
Fri Jul 3
- John Dillinger, Existentialist by Thomas S. Hibbs on National Review Online: But the pace, in the end, is precisely the point. Dillinger is nothing more than what he does. He robs banks, and in this he achieves a kind of freedom, liberation from petty concerns over a job and a family, over what others think of him, over the desire for money and advancement, even over the fear of death, as the scene in the Biograph indicates. That accounts for both the attraction of Dillinger and his essential emptiness, a combination that Mann?s own film mimics: artistic flair wedded to nihilism.
- Now You Can Select the Gender of Your Baby: Determining the sex of our children has always been a desire of mankind.
- Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles (Paperback) by Robin Baker - Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists
- Cener for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
- My gender workbook: how to become a ... - Google Books
- Why did the sex doll become the ideal? | The First Post: by Yvonne Roberts // This article captures part of the picture -- but in a reductive, one-sided way (e.g. given overgeneralizi ng about the prevalance of the sort of degrading objectificatio n described here)
- TV advertising - sexist? - YouTube: via http://blogofc hampions.livej ournal.com/176 310.html
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