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GLOBAL MAMA: Nannies on Motherhood
Yesterday I participated in a Women’s Studies Quarterly Symposium on their recent Mother issue. Among the many excellent talks and readings, I was particularly struck by a talk given by Tamara Mose...
View ArticleGLOBAL MAMA: Wish List for Mother’s Day
Imagine 1. A morning spent reading the newspaper and drinking coffee without constant interruption from the kids. 2. A newspaper filled with stories about the new global peace: no environmental...
View ArticleQuick hit: Women in Translation
A mere 3% of books published in the U.S. each year are translations. An even smaller number of these books are written by women. What are the obstacles facing women writers around the world? What...
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GLOBAL MAMA: Maternal Health, One Year Later
Women’s History Month should be a time of celebration. Sadly, when it comes to maternal health, there’s not a lot to celebrate this year. Just one year ago, this wasn’t the case. In April 2010,...
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Quick hit: Green Feminisms Conference
The Women’s Studies Program at the State University of New York at New Paltz will host a one-day conference on Saturday, April 30, titled “Green Feminisms: Women, Sustainability and Environmental...
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GLOBAL MAMA: Mother’s Day Challenge
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Save the Children has published its twelfth annual State of the World’s Mothers Report. This report includes the Mothers’ Index, a ranked list of 164 countries around...
View ArticleGLOBAL MAMA: Mother’s Day Round-Up
Seems like quite a few other folks have been reimagining the possibilities of Mother’s Day as well! In “Mother’s Day is more than a greeting-card holiday,” Karen D’Souza also returned to the origins of...
View ArticleGLOBAL MAMA: Driving solo in Saudi Arabia
The Arab spring took a different turn in Saudi Arabia with today’s #Women2Drive campaign. Organizing via Facebook and Twitter, Saudi women hit city roads in protest of the ban on women’s driving....
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GLOBAL MAMA: On My Bookshelf
I’ve been meaning to write about some of the books on my bookshelf for quite a while. (As in, all semester!) So here’s a quick roundup of a handful of 2011 titles relevant to motherhood globally:...
View ArticleGUEST POST: Motherhood as Politics?
By Roxana Cazan* When the Russian court rejected Pussy Riot member, Maria Alyokhina’s request for a deferral in her prison term so that she can raise her son, I was shocked. Alyokhina pleaded that her...
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