Pages tagged with Women of Color

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    Opinion

    Opinion

    Shakesville Blog, August 20, 2009

    From whom are the world's women being saved? From themselves? From just the women and girls in the developing world? Or are those the only women and girls who need saving? Everything's peachy in the developed world, is it? And then there is this: Can the lives of women and girls, anywhere, be changed if the lives and men and boys aren't changed, too?  More

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    Battered Justice For Battered Women

    The Washington Post, March 19, 2005

    It is common for the public and the courts to criticize women who are victims of domestic abuse for staying in an abusive relationship and tolerating it. But what happens when women do try to end the abuse? Jessica Gonzales's story provides one horrifying answer.   More