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Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding (also published as Feral: rewilding the land, sea and human life) [1] is a 2013 book by the British activist George Monbiot. In it, Monbiot discusses rewilding, particularly in the United Kingdom.
George Joshua Richard Monbiot (/ ˈ m ɒ n b i oʊ / MON-bee-oh; born 27 January 1963) is a British journalist, author, and environmental and political activist. He writes a regular column for The Guardian and has written several books. Monbiot grew up in Oxfordshire and studied zoology at the University of Oxford.
[28] [29] Sojourner Truth, a former slave, said that, "if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before." [30] Others disagreed. Abby Kelley Foster said that suffrage for black men was a more pressing issue than suffrage for women. [31]
A group of more than 400 current and former Olympic, professional and collegiate athletes, over 300 academics and roughly 100 advocacy groups released separate letters Tuesday urging the NCAA not ...
According to an Amnesty International report released in April, about 11,500 men, 14,500 women, and 30,000 children were held in at least 27 detention facilities and two camps in Syria. The rights ...
In response to the crisis, Adolphine Terry, Vivion Brewer, and Velma Powell formed the Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools (WEC). [1]: 195 Terry, then a 75-year-old woman, was a Vassar graduate, the widow of Congressman David D. Terry, [2]: 346 [3] and highly influential in her community.
The compulsory maternity leave rules were grounded in the belief that women were incapable of making their own decisions about work, health care, and their professional competency. Most of these compulsory maternity leave rules required teachers to take leave 4–6 months before childbirth until well after the child was born, leaving visibly ...
Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan , 458 U.S. 718 (1982), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States , decided 5–4, which ruled that the single-sex admissions policy of the Mississippi University for Women violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution .