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Philobiblon: Friday Femmes Fatales No 53
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Saturday, April 22, 2006. Friday Femmes Fatales No 53. Ten brilliant posts, and ten new (to me) women bloggers worth waiting for. that's why they are Femmes Fatales. Starting out on politics this week, Stacy on Cafe Politico looks at the Bush regime's treatment of the media. Don't ask questions seems to be the best strategy; otherwise you might get thrown out. Crabbi, on A Curmudgeonly Crab (great name! Turning...
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Philobiblon: Friday Femmes Fatales No 52
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Sunday, April 16, 2006. Friday Femmes Fatales No 52. Late again this week. Sorry. Am I regretting putting a day of the week in the name? Yes Have I been a journalist so long that I should know better? Yes Sorry. Will do better. So, the ten brilliant posts, and ten new (to me) women bloggers worth waiting for. First up, a huge find, (thanks to the latest History Carnival. Moving into the workplace, Simplicus, on...
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Philobiblon: Traditional 'wisdom' is anything but...
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Sunday, April 23, 2006. Traditional 'wisdom' is anything but. As the victim of an overweight childhood encouraged by the "it is only healthy baby fat", I was taken by this. BREAST-FEEDING mothers have been given potentially harmful advice on infant nutrition for the past 40 years, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has admitted. Then, wives who work are 50 per cent less likely to see their marriages fall apart.
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Philobiblon: Reading and listening
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Monday, April 24, 2006. Radio 4's Women's Hour. This week is I Leap Over The Wall. By Monica Baldwin, about which I've previously blogged ( here. A brilliant tale from a woman who entered a sequestered order of nuns just before WWI broke out, then emerged in the middle of WWII. (You can only listen through the website - no podcast.). Posted by Natalie Bennett at 4/24/2006 02:07:00 pm. Links to this post:. Menst...
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Philobiblon: Morning reading
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Common sense on trafficking: police are threatening to report brothel customers for rape. If they use the services of women they know to be trafficked. I won't celebrate too much, however; I'll wait for the first prosecution, and the first conviction. Proving that internet culture can break down even the most ingrained aspects of national cultural, The Times's. Good" schools get that wa...
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Philobiblon: Philobiblon has moved
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. This is now the former site of Philobiblon; I won't be posting here any more, although I do plan to keep the site up for at least a while, possibly even in the long term, to keep links alive. The new site. Still needs a few tweaks, but is more or less functional. Sorry, I know it is a pain, but could you please adjust your bookmarks and blogrolls? Http:/ www.playmates-girls.com. And d...
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Philobiblon: A big question: What causes war?
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Monday, September 19, 2005. A big question: What causes war? That's the question Barbara Ehrenreich tries to answer in her brilliant. Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passion of War. Or, to put it more precisely, what predisposes the human species to get caught up in war fever? Not coincidentally, Ehrenreich suggests, that roughly coincides with the first evidence of what looks to us like war, a rock dra...
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Philobiblon: A most amiable king
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History (particularly women's history),. Book and theatre reviews,. Politics, science and art. Thursday, April 20, 2006. A most amiable king. My 19th-century blogger Miss Frances Williams Wynn is today indulging in a good old gossip about French royalty. Particularly the Duke of Orleans, Louis Phillipe, later the the last French king. I found that Sir Coutts, like myself, believed what they said to be true, that Louis Philippe had not sought the painful pre-eminence in which he finds himself. History Car...
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Ramblings Of a Retired Midwife: Inequalities In Health
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Ramblings Of a Retired Midwife. Wednesday, October 04, 2006. A really interesting in-depth article in The Guardian about the appalling inequalities in Childbirth health care between Sweden and Niger can be found here. The chance of dying in childbirth in Sweden is 1:29,800. In Niger, it is 1:7. It isn`t right and it isn`t fair. Women in the developing world often suffer horrific childbirth -induced injuries, which are incredibly rare here in the West, which is one of the reasons I support Ethiopiaid.
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ETHIOPIAID: October 2007
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007. Hello from Ethiopiaid and welcome to our new blog! September 12th 2007 marked the beginning of the New Millennium in Ethiopia and never has there been a better time for positive change and looking to the future. At Ethiopiaid we are committed to making sure that this is achieved. On Sunday 7th October, representatives from Ethiopiaid will be flying out to Addis Ababa to visit each of our current partner projects (and some potential new ones! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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