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		<title>NEWSFLASH: Gillibrand Proposes Gender Equality in Combat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In February, the Department of Defense announced it would loosen its restrictions on women in military combat roles, allowing them to &#8220;co-locate&#8221; closer to the front lines with ground combat troops. It would also open up 14,000 new job opportunities for women soldiers. That new policy took effect this past Monday. But DoD still hasn&#8217;t take the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood&#8217;s War on Women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Hollywood&#8217;s marginalization of women may not yet have reached the scale of the Republican Party&#8217;s, a study released today reveals that the top-grossing films of 2011 were far from gender-equitable. The study, “It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World: On-Screen Representations of Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2011,” conducted by San Diego State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Julia Alvarez&#8217;s Loving Tribute to Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feminist novelist Julia Alvarez (How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies), known for her clear, unaffected prose and her keen sense of justice, applies her powers of observation to her own life in a new memoir, A Wedding in Haiti. In her most intimate book to date, Alvarez delves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/14/julia-alvarezs-loving-tribute-to-haiti/</link>
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		<title>The Arc of My Mother&#8217;s Brow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We called ourselves the Dead Mothers Support Group or DMSG for short. If there was a touch of the macabre in the name, that was okay with us. Losing our moms as kids had been devastating. Why sugarcoat it? We were Harvard grad students who came together inside a dingy lecture hall to swap stories [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/13/the-arc-of-my-mothers-brow/</link>
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		<title>My Own True Mother&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The flowers come out and the prices go up. Balloons, cards, jewelry—gifts for every price point are hawked from every storefront. Even the slick, gender-neutral Apple stores are festooned with maternal slogans come May: “Get the world’s best mom the gift to match.” But what if you don’t have the world’s best mom? What if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Mama&#8217;s Day for the Rest of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mother&#8217;s Day is just around the corner. This Sunday, tradition dictates that we will celebrate our moms by showering them with flowers or brunches or candy and finding a way to say &#8220;I love you.&#8221; For many, this may feel sufficient, but for more and more people, it’s not enough. I, for one, have always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Femisphere: Reproductive Rights Bloggers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sites such as RH Reality Check and Abortion Gang have long comprised a thriving reproductive-rights blogosphere. In the past year, their numbers have swelled, as legions of pissed-off feminists take to the Internet to oppose the growing war on women&#8217;s reproductive rights. One of the new kids on the repro-rights block is Keep your Boehner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/12/the-femisphere-reproductive-rights-bloggers/</link>
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		<title>Celebrating Birth Control on Mother&#8217;s Day? Not as Counterintuitive as It Sounds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Mother&#8217;s Day, we honor the women in our lives for all they do&#8211;meal planning, financial planning and family planning, to name a few. Regrettably, the latter task is going to cost mothers even more, as coverage for reliable birth control and related services comes under increasing challenge in the U.S. Last week, Gov. Jan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/11/celebrating-birth-control-on-mothers-day-not-as-counterintuitive-as-it-sounds/</link>
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		<title>Young Mamas Need Support, Not Stigma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach Mother’s Day (May 13), we’re inundated with celebrations of motherhood, but some kinds of mothers are not invited to the party. Hallmark cards and flower commercials rarely show queer mothers, trans mothers, stepmothers, disabled mothers or young mothers. Making matters worse, a good number of these groups are not only ignored, but actively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/11/celebrating-young-mamas-who-need-support-not-stigma/</link>
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		<title>HERvotes Blog Carnival: Women Need Economic Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In time for Mothers Day, the 12th HERvotes blog carnival is dedicated to getting the word out about economic security for women, especially in their retirement years.  Women need better benefits — not cuts — under social safety net programs. The economic slump in both the U.S. and Europe has prompted elites to call for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/05/11/hervotes-blog-carnival-economic-security/</link>
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