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Women: Encyclopedia - Women's shelter

A Women's Shelter is a place of temporary refuge and support for women escaping violent situations, such as Rape, and Domestic Violence. Having the ability to leave a situation of violence is valuable for women who are under attack because such situations frequently involve an imbalance of power that limits the woman's financial options. A response to widespread violence against women, a women's shelter sometimes also serves as a place for women to organize for equality, which is an important distinction from standard government ...

Women: Encyclopedia II - Women's cricket - Women's Test cricket Women's Test cricket has been played since 1933/4. Current international women's cricket teams include nine Test teams, as follows: Australia England India Ireland New Zealand Pakistan South Africa Sri Lanka West Indies Note that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe do not play women's Test cricket although they do have men's teams, and that Ireland is a Test nation in women's cricket but not in the men's game. ...

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Women's rights - Organisatioins working for women's rights

Women: Womens Movement in a Spiritual Perspective

This is the second of two two summaries of the speach about Womens Movement in a Spiritual context delievered by Tapasya Dasaji of the Golden Age Foundation at the Oneness Festival, 16-22 of February 2004.

Women: Encyclopedia - Women's suffrage

The movement for women's suffrage, led by suffragists (peaceful protestors) and suffragettes (violent protestors), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of all discrimination, for example due to race), which was considered too radical. In 1869 the Wyoming Territory in the United States became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was ext ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Women and Mormonism

The status of women in Mormonism has been a source of public debate beginning prior to the death of Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1844. Various denominations within the Latter Day Saint movement have taken different paths on the subject of women and their role in the church and in society—views ranging from the full equal status and ordination of women to the priesthood as practiced by the Community of Christ, to the Catholic-like patriarchal system practiced by the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to the ultra-patr ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Women in Hinduism

Hinduism is based on numerous texts, some of which date back to 2000 BC. They are varied in authority, aunthencity, content and theme, with the most authoritative being the Vedas. The position of women in Hinduism is widely dependent on the specific text and the context. Positive references are made to the ideal woman in texts such as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, while some texts such as the Manu Smriti advocate a restriction of women's rights. Women in Hinduism - Gender of God. Of the four major sects within ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Women For Sobriety

Women For Sobriety (WFS), Inc., is a non-profit support group for alcoholic women, founded in 1976. The mutual support groups of WFS work to increase the self-esteem of members. Women for Sobriety groups are non-religious and the meetings also differ from those of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in that they discourage the use of tobacco, caffeine and sugar. The group also offers mutual support online through chat rooms at MSN and AOL, and it offers lite ...

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Women For Sobriety - Source

Women: Encyclopedia - Women's cinema

The term women's cinema usually refers to the work of women film directors. It can also designate the work of other women behind the camera such as cinematographers and screenwriters. Although the participation of women film editor, costume designers, and production designers is usually not considered to be decisive enough to justify the term "women's cinema", it does have a large influence on the visual impression of any movie. Women's cinema - Silent films. Alice Guy-Blaché made the very first feature fi ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Women in India

This article is about the status of women in India, both historically and currently. This is distinct from the position of women as advocated by religious texts in Hinduism. For that, see Women in Hinduism. The status of women in India has been subject to great changes over the past few millennia. From a largely balanced society in ancient empires through the low points of the middle ages, from the rigid rules of the colonial era to the mixed attitudes of the current era, the history of women in India has been eventful. ...

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Women in India - The Purdah system

Women in India - Reform movements

Women in India - Modern reform movements

Women: Encyclopedia - Women in Love film

Women in Love is a 1969 film which tells the story of the relationships between men and women at the turn of the 19th century. It stars Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden. The movie was adapted by Larry Kramer from the novel Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence. It was directed by Ken Russell. It won the Academy Award for Best Actress (Glenda Jackson) and was nominated for Best Cinematography, Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The movie is famous for an extended sce ...

Women: Encyclopedia - Women's studies

Women's studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. It often includes feminist theory, women's history (eg history of women's suffrage) and social history, women's literature, women's health, and the feminist and gender studies-influenced practice of most of the humanities and social sciences. "Women's studies" was first conceived as an academic rubric apart from other departments in the late 1960s, as the "second wave" of feminism gained political influence ...

Women: Encyclopedia - Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. Brigham and Women's is a major teaching affiliate (and directly adjacent to the campus) of Harvard Medical School. Brigham and Women's is also affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Brigham and Women's Hospital represents the 1975 merger of three Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals: The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (formed in 1913), the ...

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Brigham and Women's Hospital - Historical notes

Women: Encyclopedia - What Women Want

What Women Want is a 2000 romantic comedy film, directed by Nancy Meyers. It stars Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. Ashley Johnson, formerly one of the actresses on Growing Pains, guest stars in this film as well. What Women Want - Plot. Mel Gibson plays an advertising executive who has a electrical accident which results in him acquiring the ability to hear women's thoughts, i.e. he knows "What Women Want". He then uses this to his advantage. To his horror, though, that also means he can he ...

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What Women Want - Plot

Women: Encyclopedia - Women in science fiction

Although women had always been represented among science fiction writers (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel), it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ began to consciously explore feminist themes in works such as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Female Man. WisCon, the world's only feminist science fiction convention and conference, is a four-d ...

Women: Encyclopedia - Christian views of women

Christian views of women vary considerably today and have varied even more throughout the last two millennia, evolving along with or counter to the societies in which Christians have lived. Some contemporary observers accuse Christianity of holding a negative view of women. Others believe Christianity has inspired gender equality. As an example of these opposing views, many societies containing large groups of Christians granted women basic rights of equality in both legal and social terms within the past two centuries. On the ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Women's British Open

The Women's British Open, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Weetabix Women's British Open, is one of the leading events in women's professional golf, being the only tournament which is classified as a major by both the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. The event was established by the Ladies Golf Union of Great Britain in 1976. It became an official stop on the LPGA Tour in 1994. It has been an LPGA major since 2001, when it took the place of the du Maurier Classic on the list of majors. In 2005 the pr ...

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Women: Encyclopedia - Role of women in Judaism

The role of women in Judaism is determined by the Hebrew Bible, Talmud (oral law), tradition and by non-religious cultural factors. The Bible and Talmud mention various female role models, but religious law treats women differently in various circumstances. Feminism has led to a reappraisal of the role of women in Jewish religion. Role of women in Judaism - Biblical times. See also Old Testament views on women. The role of women in the Bible is contradictory: few women are mention ...