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Orgasmic Birth: The Natural Reality Behind The Hype

Lee Stranahan | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Orgasmic Birth, Women and Media, Children, Health, Natural Childbirth, Orgasms Childbirth, Documentary, Home Birth, Living News
Lee Stranahan

Orgasmic Birth certainly is a grabber of a title. Those aren't two words normally found close together in a sentence. In our culture, other adjectives are more common such as Painful Childbirth.

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The Britney Show: A Pop Princess and American Womanhood

Sarah Seltzer | Posted 01.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Pop Music, Paparazzi, Women and Media, Music, Mtv, Britney Spears, Feminism, Entertainment News
Sarah Seltzer

Britney Spears' pop-tart image was created as a fantasy for the average man, but since her brush with the ugly side of fame, she's been subjected to the average female nightmare.

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SNL Star Amy Poehler on Her New Online Show "Smart Girls"

Marianne Schnall | Posted 01.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Girls, Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live, Feminism, Parenting, Teenagers, Women and Media, Entertainment News
Marianne Schnall

AP: The idea came out of us wishing we could go back in time to the younger versions of ourselves and let them know it was gonna be ok. My goal is to be the Edward R. Murrow of girls.

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Gender, Politics and Media Redux

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 12.21.2008 | Media

Read More: McCain Advisors, Gender Bias, Gender, Media, Larry Summers, Election 2008, Lesley Jane Seymour, More Magazine, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Campbell Brown, Geraldine Ferraro, Shorenstein Center, Politics, Women and Media, Sexism, Women and Politics, Marie Wilson, Hillary Clinton, Arianna Huffington, Carol Jenkins, Class, Obama's Economic Team, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Last week, New York Women In Communications presented The Spin Room: Gender, Politics & Media in the 2008 Election.

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The New Power Girls: Inside the Hot New Trend Among American Girls and Women

Patricia Handschiegel | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business

Read More: Hilary Clinton, Women, Women and Media, Media Moguls, Working Women, Amy Poehler, Women in Business, Business, Arianna Huffington, Women Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Moguls, Business News
Patricia Handschiegel

Women aren't just interested in taking a slice of the corporate pie, but owning the pie, the bakery and the manufacturing company that supplies it -- and are making it happen.

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What Do Undecided Women Want?

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 12.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Women and Politics, Voter, Women and Media, Women Voters, Election, Palin, Geraldine Ferraro, Voting, Media News
Joel B. Schwartzberg

There are roughly eight million more female voters than male, and more women than men say they are still undecided. Senator Hillary Clinton and Govern...

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Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit Highlights: Arianna, Meredith Whitney, Melinda Gates (VIDEO)

Fortune | Pattie Sellers | Posted 11.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Meredith Whitney, Women, Women and Media, Melinda Gates, Women and Politics, Powerful Women, Arianna Huffington, Business News

Here on Postcards, you'll find a trove of video segments from last week's Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit. Click here to watch a riveting take on...

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Insulted Women Sound Off On Campaign Politics

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 10.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Women and Media, Sarah Palin Vp Pick, Barack Obama, Women Voters, Sarah Palin, Palin Women Voters, Women Abortion Mccain, McCain Palin, Choice Palin, Insult Palin, Abortion Palin, Women Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Home News
Marlene H. Phillips

My email roared out the response of women who wanted their opinions on this election to be heard. "Insulted," was one word they used, and enraged with John McCain's underestimation of them.

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Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir

Marianne Schnall | Posted 08.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Isabel Allende, Women, Cambodia, Loung Ung, Media, Women and Media, Feminism, Omega Institute, Darfur, Khmer Rouge, Living News
Marianne Schnall

At an upcoming Women & Courage conference Isabel Allende and Loung Ung will demonstrate that the most direct and powerful way to comprehend human suffering is through compelling, first-hand accounts.

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Russert's Legacy: A Woman Meeting the Press?

Marie Wilson | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Hillary, Politics, Obama, Diversity of Pundits, Russert, Diversity, Gender, Meet the Press, Women and Media, Women and Politics, Meet the Press Replacement, John Edwards Meet the Press, Media News
Marie Wilson

Visibility is viability, and wouldn't it be great to have Meet the Press, the most prestigious and hard hitting show on the Sunday circuit, feature a woman host?

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The Over-Exposure of Danica Patrick

Dave Zirin | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Sports, Maxim Magazine, Danica Patrick, Sexism, Women, Danica Patrick Swimsuit Photos, Danica Patrick Exposed, Women and Media, Danica Patrick Swimsuit, Entertainment News
Dave Zirin

Danica Patrick has revived a debate as old as Sonia Henie skating figure eights at the 1926 Olympics: Does sex sell -- or perhaps more aptly phrased, does sexism sell -- women's sports?

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Sex and The City Jumps the Shark

Thelma Adams | Posted 06.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Women and Politics, U.S. Economy, Sex and the City: The Movie, Women and Media, Hillary Clinton 2008, Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

Call Sea World: Sex and the City has jumped the shark. Since the HBO series exited with tears and orgasms in 2004, we've all moved on even if Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte haven't.

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Tim Meets The Ladies

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Stephen Colbert, Meet the Press, Judy Woodruff, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Women and Media, Women on TV Talk Shows, The White House Project, Women and Politics, Kate O'Beirne, Sally Bedell Smith, Stephen Colbert for President, Who's Talking Report, Women Opinion Makers, Tim Russert, Media News

It's not that there are never women on Meet The Press, and it's also not rare for the opening panel to consist homogeneously of one sex. It's just damned rare for that one sex to be female.

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