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Jewish women flocked to join Hadassah, NCJW, the synagogue sisterhoods, as well as smaller national women’s organizations like Women’s American Ort, the American Jewish Congress Women’s Division, B’nai B’rith Women (now Jewish Women International), and Pioneer Women.
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Terri Judd of the Independent read it and reported under the title Women's lives are worse than ever:
Archive 2008-07-01 Alison 2008
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It just seems to me, that when the term Women's Studies was found to be "gender exclusive," this feels like an attempt to go back to sexist language, because only in a society that for so long was able to use language like "mankind," which can be recognized as encompassing men and women, would we then turn around and say, "But 'women' is too gender exclusive or gender specific!"
Is Women's Studies Being Made Irrelevant? Anxious Black Woman 2008
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The lessons learned from this 1) Duke has personnel in positions of authority who think the answer to students having very strong reactions to the pro-life issue is to limit intellectual inquiry and diverse views; 2) the term Women’s Center at Duke means Women’s Center for those women who support killing unborn babies and not woman who wish to protect unborn babies.
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NOTHING could be more pleas'd than she, to whom it was directed, at the Receipt of this Letter; but when she was told how inquisitive he had been concerning her Character and Circumstances, she could not forbear laughing heartily to think of the Tricks she had play'd him, and applauding her own Strength of Genius, and Force of Resolution, which by such unthought-of Ways could triumph over her Lover's Inconstancy, and render that very Temper, which to other Women is the greatest Curse, a Means to make herself more bless'd.
Fantomina: or, Love in a Maze, Being a Secret History of an Amour Between Two Persons of Condition 1725
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Strangely it seems the usual gender of Homo Sapiens abducted by Bigfoot is actually Male, whoever Bigfoot is He don't seem to be interested in Women, just guys ...
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Strangely it seems the usual gender of Homo Sapiens abducted by Bigfoot is actually Male, whoever Bigfoot is He don't seem to be interested in Women, just guys ...
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Jennifer Coates (in Women, Men and Language, 3rd edition, 2004) summarises the evidence:
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But National Organization for Women is using that quote as part of fundraiser.
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