(no subject)
Mar. 8th, 2007 11:00 amMarch 8, 2007 is International Women's Day.
From the IWD website:
Wikipedia: Feminism
-Wikipedia: First Wave Feminism
-Wikipedia: Second Wave Feminism
-Wikipedia: Third Wave Feminism
Article- Electronic Iraq: Women's Lives Unraveling in Occupied Iraq
Article- BBC: Women's Day Report Shows Wage Gap
Article- Electronic Intifada: Violence Against Women Rises in the Occupied Territories
Other organizations and websites devoted to the empowerment of women:
Blog Against Sexism
Code Pink: Women For Peace
Health for Humanity: Maternal and Child Health Projects
Feminist.org
La Leche League
National Organization of Women
Women for Women, International
Association for Women's Rights in Development
Feminist Theory Website
Feminist Blogs
Feminism and Women's Studies
National Women's Health Information
National Women's Health Institute
V-Day: Global Movement to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
Girl Scouts of America
Girlguiding UK
Girl Guides of Canada
Girl Guides Australia
If you know of other great organizations or websites, please leave a link in the comments.
"Mommy, when I grow up I want to help smash the white, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, bullshit paradigm too!"
-Author unknown (on my refrigerator magnet)
From the IWD website:
THE IWD COLOURS
Purple, green and white are the official international women's colours.
The colours originated from the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), in the UK in 1908. The colours were said to represent:
- white for purity in public as well as private life
- purple for justice, dignity, self-reverence and self-respect (and representing the women's vote)
- green for hope and new life.
The colours unified the women's movement and emphasised the femininity of the suffragettes. The tricolour of the WSPU soon became a visual cue for the women's movement in other countries. Purple, green and white were worn on International Women's Day and were used for other women's movement banners and posters.
More recently, two changes have occured:
- the use of the colour white has more recently been rejected as 'purity' is a controversial issue and attitudes towards the role of 'purity' from women differ greatly
- the introduction of the colour gold representing 'a new dawn' has been commonly used to represent the second wave of feminism.
Wikipedia: Feminism
-Wikipedia: First Wave Feminism
-Wikipedia: Second Wave Feminism
-Wikipedia: Third Wave Feminism
Article- Electronic Iraq: Women's Lives Unraveling in Occupied Iraq
Article- BBC: Women's Day Report Shows Wage Gap
Article- Electronic Intifada: Violence Against Women Rises in the Occupied Territories
Other organizations and websites devoted to the empowerment of women:
Blog Against Sexism
Code Pink: Women For Peace
Health for Humanity: Maternal and Child Health Projects
Feminist.org
La Leche League
National Organization of Women
Women for Women, International
Association for Women's Rights in Development
Feminist Theory Website
Feminist Blogs
Feminism and Women's Studies
National Women's Health Information
National Women's Health Institute
V-Day: Global Movement to Stop Violence Against Women and Girls
Girl Scouts of America
Girlguiding UK
Girl Guides of Canada
Girl Guides Australia
If you know of other great organizations or websites, please leave a link in the comments.
"Mommy, when I grow up I want to help smash the white, racist, homophobic, patriarchal, bullshit paradigm too!"
-Author unknown (on my refrigerator magnet)