The feminist movement in the United States and abroad was a social and political movement that sought to establish equality for women. The movement transformed the lives of many individual women and exerted a profound effect upon American society...

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Mike Buday isn't married to his last name. In fact, he and his fiancee decided before they wed that he would take hers. But Buday was stunned to learn that he couldn't simply become Mike Bijon when they married in 2005.As in most other states,...

A recent ban on all abortions is putting women's lives at risk in Nicaragua, where doctors are now unwilling to attend to some obstetric emergencies and women are too afraid to seek help, doctors and a U.S. human rights group said Tuesday.Abortions already were rare...

Excerpts from the Swedish Academy's citation awarding the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature to Doris Lessing:___The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2007 is awarded to the British writer Doris Lessing "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected...