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Entries by Dr. Peggy Drexler from 01/2012

Fear for the Women of Afghanistan

| Posted 01.17.2012 | Women
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As the United States begins to tidy up its affairs in Afghanistan, I have a bad feeling about the women we'll leave behind.

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Fear Factor: The Religious Right's Problem With Women

| Posted 01.31.2012 | Huffington Post
Read More: Israel Ultra-Orthodox Parties, Kabul, Men, Conservative Religious Cultures, Pregnancy, Female Sexuality, God, Saudi Arabia, Burqa, Arab Winter, Arab Spring, Naama Israeli Health Ministry, Women, Cairo, Birth Control Pills, Beit Shemesh Schoolgirl, Viagra, Female Oppression, Afghanistan, Margolese, Haredi, Huffington Post News

What is it about women that the men of deeply conservative religions find so threatening? What runs so deep that it justifies traumatizing an innocent eight-year-old like Naama Margolese in Beit Shemesh?

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