Read more feminism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/695/feminism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 5:40:39 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/73595/student-expelled-for-minidress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 20-year-old woman was expelled from a Brazilian university and accused of violating "ethical principles and academic dignity and morality" after wearing a short pink dress to class, the AP reports. Her expulsion comes a month after she was escorted off campus amid the heckling and cursing of her classmates...http://www.newser.com/story/73595/student-expelled-for-minidress.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 09 Nov 2009 10:46:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71962/miss-mrs-or-ms-its-ok-not-to-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot so long ago, feminism and convention waged a battle over titles—Miss, Mrs., and the young upstart, Ms. Though seemingly trivial, the question of whether a woman should have to specify her marital status in stating her name cut to the core of women’s place in society—and was...http://www.newser.com/story/71962/miss-mrs-or-ms-its-ok-not-to-care.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:13 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71277/honor-the-dalai-lama-replace-him-with-a-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Dalai Lama’s work for peace has been so widely praised that it’s almost obscured his wonderful work as a feminist. He has worked tirelessly for women, seeking to raise their position in Tibetan society, writes Amy Yee for Double X. He even suggested, scandalously, that his next reincarnation ought...http://www.newser.com/story/71277/honor-the-dalai-lama-replace-him-with-a-girl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 09 Oct 2009 10:35:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70003/hofstra-gang-rape-wasnt-rape-but-it-wasnt-ok.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt’s clear now that the alleged Hofstra gang rape in a campus bathroom—in which a young woman said 5 guys tied her to a stall and attacked her—was not rape, by any legal definition. Confronted with a cell phone video, the woman recanted within 72 hours, admitting that...http://www.newser.com/story/70003/hofstra-gang-rape-wasnt-rape-but-it-wasnt-ok.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 22 Sep 2009 12:13:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67747/feminists-dont-get-it-motherhoods-a-drug.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor Katie Roiphe, the connection with her newborn child is like an “addiction," she writes on DoubleX. "There is an opium-den quality to maternity leave. The high of a love that obliterates everything.” Why, then, can’t feminists accept that motherhood is more than a “vocation?” Sure, “the act of caring...http://www.newser.com/story/67747/feminists-dont-get-it-motherhoods-a-drug.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 25 Aug 2009 15:08:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66821/ladies-pick-up-thy-power-tool.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSara Mosle “came of age betwixt and between,” she writes on DoubleX—after feminism had freed women from the need to learn “traditional female skills” but before “they had begun to make real inroads into traditional male pastimes and professions.” So that left her with an English major and a...http://www.newser.com/story/66821/ladies-pick-up-thy-power-tool.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 13:55:23 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63513/refugee-crisis-opens-doors-for-pakistans-secluded-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWomen's leaders in Pakistan have found an unexpected silver lining in the country's refugee crisis, the Globe & Mail reports. A million women have been forced from their homes by the fighting, upending the Pashtun code of honor that forces women to spend almost all their time secluded in family...http://www.newser.com/story/63513/refugee-crisis-opens-doors-for-pakistans-secluded-women.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 04 Jul 2009 13:30:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62588/thank-women-for-irans-revolution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAmericans like to thank Barack Obama or George Bush or even Twitter for Iran’s revolution, but the real movers and shakers are Iran’s women, writes Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post. They’ve spent years organizing and campaigning for equal rights, and their presence in the streets “could strike the deepest...http://www.newser.com/story/62588/thank-women-for-irans-revolution.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 23 Jun 2009 10:25:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61133/palin-tours-feminist-landmarks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThere were few reporters to be seen as Sarah Palin visited some landmarks of early feminism in upstate New York yesterday, Politico reports. The Alaska governor is at the start of a low-key out-of-state trip with no mass rallies or major addresses planned. Most of the events she plans to...http://www.newser.com/story/61133/palin-tours-feminist-landmarks.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 06 Jun 2009 7:41:39 CDT