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Ukrainian activist group Femen calling for a sex strike to protest against sexual exploitation of women.. A sex strike (sex boycott), or more formally known as Lysistratic nonaction, [1] is a method of nonviolent resistance in which one or more persons refrain from or refuse sex with partners until policy or social demands are met.
Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. In contrast, Lysistrata is portrayed to be an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. Soon after she confides in ...
"Husbands are like wine; they take a long time to mature." — Letters to Juliet "When I was a kid, most of the advice that my dad gave me was crap. But there's one thing that he said that was ...
(Here’s how to stop negative self talk.) “For example, let’s say you are dealing with a passive-aggressive family member at a gathering,” Muradian says. “They say to you, ‘Jenny, don ...
Asking for what we need or want can be challenging, especially for women: We’re conditioned to place our desires beneath those of others. Whether it’s with family members, friends, or ...
Bride burning is a form of violence against women in which a bride is killed at home by her husband or husband's family due to his dissatisfaction over the dowry provided by her family. Dowry death refers to the phenomenon of women and girls being killed or committing suicide due to disputes regarding dowry.
husband), Tim, and I woke up in our flat in London. We’d been working in the U.K. for less than a year and living together only a couple of months, having met shortly after we both arrived from the States the previous spring. Perhaps I needed a bit of distraction, as I’d given up smoking the night
The term catfight was recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary as the title and subject of an 1824 mock heroic poem by Ebenezer Mack. In the United States, it was first recorded as being used to describe a fight between women in an 1854 book written by Benjamin G. Ferris who wrote about Mormon women fighting over their shared husband.