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		<title>Arabic Twitter Stars Come Face-to-Face in Cairo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Courtney C. Radsch WeNews correspondent Thursday, January 26, 2012 After a year of courageous digital leadership, female activists from the Middle East and North Africa&#8211;some of them Twitter superstars&#8211;met in Cairo last week. It was a chance to meet face-to-face, savor revolutionary success and weigh setbacks. Click here for the complete article]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/forum/arabic-twitter-stars-come-face-to-face-in-cairo/</link>
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		<title>Seeking chapters for Performing Motherhood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amber Kinser of East Tennessee State University has issued a call for chapters in Performing Motherhood to be published by Demeter Press.  The following link provides details: &#160; http://www.amberkinser.com/perf-mhood-cfp.html]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/seeking-chapters-for-performing-motherhood/</link>
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		<title>Chapters sought for book on modern mythology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Perlich sends a call for chapters in a book, Modern Mythology in Popular Culture, with a deadline of  March 1, 2012. In 2010 McFarland Publishing issued a follow-up volume to Sith, Slayers, Stargates, and Cyborgs by Perlich and Whitt titled Millennial Mythmaking. This third collection seeks to bring together scholars and cultural critics from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/chapters-sought-for-book-on-modern-mythology/</link>
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		<title>Interdisciplinary conference seeks paper proposals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Intersections: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Gender and Sexuality is a Georgia Gwinnett College conference on Saturday, April 7 featuring student, faculty, and student/faculty collaborative projects relating to gender and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. The conference will include concurrent panels throughout the day and a dinner reception. We invite submissions for individual 20 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/interdisciplinary-conference-seeks-paper-proposals/</link>
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		<title>Reminder on Gender Matters conference registration deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The early registration deadline for Gender Matters: Gendered Borders is Thursday, February 2, 2012. The conference will be held April 13-14, 2012 at Governors State University in University Park, IL (south of Chicago). Gender Matters is an academic conference highlighting research on gender, women, and sexuality across all disciplines and historical periods. A detailed program [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/reminder-on-gender-matters-conference-registration-deadline/</link>
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		<title>French town acts to set aside indiscreet, gender-biased titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From now on, the women of Cesson-Sévigné, population 16,000, will be addressed as &#8220;madame&#8221; regardless of age or marital status. &#8220;Mademoiselle,&#8221; the Gallic form of &#8220;miss,&#8221; is normally used for young, unmarried women, thus, feminists say, openly declaring them either available or unwanted in a way that men, always referred to as &#8220;monsieur,&#8221; are not. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/forum/french-town-acts-to-set-aside-indiscreet-gender-biased-titles/</link>
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		<title>Book chapters sought on media depictions of women</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alena Amato Ruggerio of South Oregon University has a call out for a book on media depictions of women as brides, wives, and in other roles. Papers already under consideration  for this edited book  include topics such as Desperate Housewives, Bridezillas, Sarah Palin, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, and A Baby Story.  The goal is to complement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/book-chapters-sought-on-media-depictions-of-women/</link>
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		<title>Fight for gender equity continues in Higher Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Women in Higher Education: The Fight for Equityby Marian Meyers with Diana Rios (Hampton Press, 2012).  ISBN 978-1-61289-065-4 (paperbound).  $28.95. For the past 40 years, women in the academy have been working to achieve equality with their male colleagues in the areas of hiring, salary, promotion, tenure and allotted resources.  Yet, research indicates that in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/fight-for-gender-equity-continues-in-higher-ed/</link>
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		<title>Conference on Poverty, Coercion, and Human Rights April 13-15</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2012 Conference on Poverty, Coercion, and Human Rights will be April 13-15, 2012, at Loyola University, Chicago Water Tower Campus.  Confirmed speakers include Amy Allen, Claudia Card, John Christman, Ann Cudd, Leslie P. Francis, Hille Haker, David Ingram, Alison Jaggar, Christine Koggel, Diana Tietjens Meyers, James Nickel, Thomas Pogge, Tisha Rajendra, and Alan Wertheimer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.womenandlanguage.org/news-views/conference-on-poverty-coercion-and-human-rights-april-13-15/</link>
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		<title>New digital repository on women&#8217;s suffrage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you may be interested in a new digital repository on the woman&#8217;s suffrage movement and, in particular, Abigail Scott Duniway (1834-1912), the foremost proponent of woman&#8217;s rights in the Pacific Northwest and a highly controversial figure in the national movement whose outspoken, even bellicose, opposition to Prohibition and Eastern interference in her &#8220;bailiwick&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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