Helen Gurley Brown (born February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. In 1962, at the age of ...

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), was born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker. She was an American actress, singer and model, who became a sex symbol and cultural icon ...

Wow. Eleven amazingly clever and creative (and hopefully tongue-in-cheek) answers to the question: "Who's the father?" (Supposedly found in the “Father’s Details” section of Child Support Agency application ...

... is a popular facilitator for progressive think tanks working at the intersections of religion, sexuality, social justice, and public policy.  Author of The Sacred Yes and Your Deepest Intent, Rev. Johnson ...

Susan notes: This is an interesting and useful graphic. (No, not the pic of my cleavage on the left - it's purely decorative! The one about breasts below :P). I love the funky facts. Unfortunately, some ...

Guest blog by executive coach Lynn Harris, author of Unwritten Rules: What Women Need To Know About Leading In Today's Organisations, is one I wished I had written myself. On the other hand, it's also ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed the United Nations in December 2011 to mark the 63rd anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These are 25 of the most ...

Men and women are enigmas to each other. Perhaps solving the "other" puzzle is part of what keeps heterosexuals endlessly fascinated with the opposite sex and coming back for more despite heartbreaking ...

SheQuotes quotes women exclusively on Twitter and Facebook. These are 39 random quotes by @SheQuotes and @Amazingwomen creator and curator Susan Macaulay. if you choose to use them, please attribute ...

In the hectic world we live in, it’s often difficult to balance dating with work and family commitments. How can we find the time to meet new people, never mind go on a date with them? Also, how can ...

A young Scottish lad and his lassie were sitting on a low stone wall, holding hands, gazing out over the loch. They sat in silence for several minutes. Finally the girl looked at the boy and said, ...

... and sexuality in her work.[6]A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far (1981) and some of her late poems in The Fact of a Doorframe (2001) represent the capstone of this philosophical and political position. ...

... of your character to narrow sexuality by a culture that refuses to hold men accountable for their actions and requires you to either radically display ourself for men's pleasure or withdraw from the world ...

If Tina Turner is the Queen of Rock, what does that make Annie Lennox? OMG HOT!!!! I Need a Man Lyrics I don't care if you won't Talk to me You know I'm not that kind of girl. And I don't care if ...

By Deanne Mathews In 2004, I received a call from my brother in Canada telling me that our stepfather was dead. He had stabbed himself twice in the heart. He must have been in such great pain to have ...

Carol Queen is an American author, editor, sociologist and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminism movement. Queen has written on human sexuality in books such as Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles ...

... hard-hitting talk is honest, forthright and thought-provoking. Human beings are sexual beings, we wouldn't be around if we weren't. In my view, sexuality is an aspect of our humanity that deserves to be ...

Eve Ensler (born May 25, 1953) is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her play The Vagina Monologues. Ensler was born in New York and is Jewish. She reports having ...

Guest blog post by Karen Poter host of Internet talk show Love-Encore. I had been happily married to my college sweetheart, Gary, for nearly twenty-four years. We had a daughter and two sons who were ...

... mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. In the 1970s, Cixous began writing about the relationship between sexuality and language. Like other poststructuralist feminist theorists, Cixous believes ...

... about how a woman can be beautiful without placing overt emphasis on her sexuality. In western society it’s quite difficult to separate the two. I design clothes that are beautiful in the way that women ...

... entitled to our human rights and dignity. The second issue is a question of whether homosexuality arises from a particular part of the world. Some seem to believe it is a Western phenomenon, and therefore ...

Susan notes: the fight to end female genital mutilation (FGM) often seems like a losing battle because it's so entrenched in some cultures, and the practice is perpetuated by women - mothers and grandmothers ...

On the eve of the 2012 US election, filmmaker Tiffany Shlain says this about her award-winning film: Nearly a decade ago, I directed a film about the importance of reproductive rights: Life, Liberty, ...

... propelled by her "jaw-dropping movie debut [in] Body Heat... she built a career on adventurousness and frank sexuality borne of robust physicality." Turner would ultimately become one of the top box office ...

... perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing Us Softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising ...

In yesterday's post (This Is Insane. I Mean Really. C'mon!) I wondered wether to scream or cry. Today, I learned a lesson in humility when I found that women (and men!) who are obviously much smarter ...

... behavior. Media attention about the case enhanced her career. Her next play, The Drag, dealt with homosexuality and was what West called one of her "comedy-dramas of life". After a series of try-outs in ...

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was ...

... E. Haldeman-Julius "Little Blue Books". It provided information about such topics as menstruation and sexuality in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by What Every Mother Should Know. She also launched ...

Susan notes: Maria Suarez spent 22 years in prison for hiding the table leg a neighbour used to kill the man who had sexually, physically and emotionally abused Suarez for five years after he hired her ...

... questioned whether at least some of Norma Jeane's later behavior (i.e. hypersexuality, sleep disturbances, substance abuse, disturbed interpersonal relationships), was a manifestation of the effects of ...

Casanova’s rule for seduction was to tell a beautiful woman she was intelligent and an intelligent woman she was beautiful. The false choice between intellectualism and sexuality in women has persisted ...

MissRepresentation, the full-length, award-winning documentary premiered on the OWN network on October 20th. Watch it. Pledge to be part of the change, host a screening of the movie, or find a screening ...

... discussed how women are now allowed to do everything that men are allowed to "as long as [they] are gorgeous every step of the way and display [their] sexuality." She considers this a "big pressure" for ...

Guest blog post by Sue Jones; originally published on elephant. Recently I posted a status on my Facebook page declaring I was having a “good hair” day. Only my best friend and confidant Amber could ...

PrimaDonna, Incorporated is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit youth organization that strives to promote hope, love, and self-sufficiency in the minds of young girls everywhere. Its focus is to reach out to girls ...

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... that there is no shame in freely choosing to express one’s sexuality in the manner one wishes, and that includes getting paid for it, if that is one’s choice.... It’s Friday the 13th again; that means ...

Colette was the surname of the French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954). She is best known for her novel Gigi (upon which the stage and film musical comedies by Lerner ...

Sophia Loren (born Sofia Villani Scicolone; September 20, 1934) is an Italian actress. In 1962, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Two Women, becoming the first actress to win ...

Sunitha Krishnan is galvanizing India’s battle against sexual slavery by uniting government, corporations and NGOs to end human trafficking.   Each year, some two million women and children, many younger ...

Once upon a time a guy  asked a girl, "Will you marry me?" The girl said,  "No!" And the girl lived happily ever after and... went  shopping, dancing, camping, drank whole bottles of wine, always ...

Ummm. What century are we in? This is the scariest picture I've seen so far this millennium. It defies all reason. I can't even write. I'm speechless. I mean really. WTF is GOING ON? Not ONE woman on ...

If you’re still struggling with consent just imagine instead of initiating sex you’re making them a cup of tea. Simple really.  And brilliantly explained in this two-minute video that ANYONE can ...

... not being afraid to flaunt it), and Knight for getting to the core of what makes some people uncomfortable with “older” women expressing their sexuality (and not being afraid to write about it). The ...

... women and children, are mainly detained on minor criminal charges; the methods include rape and brutal violence. Rape is a crime of power and violence, not of sexuality. It degrades, dehumanizes ...

... I’m all for sensuality, physicality, and healthy sexuality practiced between consenting adults. And just for the record, I’m OK with nudity too. But what, pray tell, is the connection between a hunky ...