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		<title>Violence, Sex &amp; Exploitation: Japanese Women &amp; Children in Natsuo Kirino’s Crime Novels</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Jones Nakanishi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Natsuo Kirino’s novels are not for the faint-hearted, nor are they for westerners loath to abandon the cultural stereotype of the Japanese woman as a delicate and beautiful "oriental flower". Wendy Nakanishi explores the role of women in Japanese culture and society through Kirino's popular works of crime and suspense.]]></description>
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		<title>Elsa Dorfman: An Artist Among the Beats</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lourdes Acevedo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elsa Dorfman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elsa's Housebook: A Women's Photojournal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsa Dorfman describes life as a creative female among writers of the Beat Generation and beyond, and gives a bit of advice to creative women now.]]></description>
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		<title>ruth weiss: beat &#8220;goddess&#8221; true innovator of poetry &amp; jazz</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 23:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lourdes Acevedo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beat Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Can't Stop the Beat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Kerouac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lourdes Acevedo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["It was just one of those things," says living (and still writing, performing) Beat generation poet, ruth weiss, of her first readings of jazz-inspired poetry set to jazz music in 1949. She always knew that things would come together at the right time and place. Always a poet, the true poetry of her life continues to unfold.]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wouldn’t Walk With Tigers?* Women of the Beat Generation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lourdes Acevedo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anne Waldman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beat poets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diane di Prima]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Kerouac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josephine Miles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joyce Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lourdes Acevedo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madeline Gleason]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[San Francisco Renaissance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women of the Beat Generation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women writers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["'Sacrifice everything' we would write on our apartment walls..." wrote Diane di Prima, prolific Beat Generation writer. What was life like for female writers and artists who joined a movement to rebel against conformity in the 1950s golden era of female domesticity? Lourdes Acevedo begins a new series on women of the Beat generation.]]></description>
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		<title>What Became of the &#8216;Five Witches&#8217; of Croatia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lourdes Acevedo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Baba Yaga Laid an Egg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Globus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jelena Lovrić and Dubravka Ugresić]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man Booker International Prize]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meredith Tax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rada Iveković]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slavenka Drakulić]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Nation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vesna Kesić]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In our culture, "witches" are often friendly and cartoonish, but in different times and distant countries, to be a witch has meant that one is distinctly Other, and dangerous. When the 'Five Witches' of Croatia were publicly derided for speaking out against the nationalist state, they refused to be silenced.]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Musine—Lost Voices of Women and Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lourdes Acevedo</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[26:50]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albania]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eve Ensler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of expression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International PEN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lourdes Acevedo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musine Kokalari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nawal El Saadawi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writers in Prison Committee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lourdes Acevedo writes about Musine Kokalari and the fear surrounding freedom to write. Who was Musine Kokalari, and what made her so powerful that she was bound, even after she was dead? Reading her story, if not her banned works, reminds us of the power of our written voices.]]></description>
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		<title>Irmtraud Morgner</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irmtraud Morgner began her career as a writer in the late fifties with works which were inspired by this genre, but she would ultimately confound the state's expectations and embark upon journeys of exploration into the surreal, the fantastical and the magical.]]></description>
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		<title>Maxie Wander: Giving Housewives a Platform for Writing in the GDR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maxie Wander is, in several respects, an exception in the context of this series. One of the things which sets her apart from the other featured writers is the fact that she migrated to the German Democratic Republic from Vienna, Austria, where she had been born in 1933.]]></description>
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		<title>Christa Wolf: the Moral Right of Women to an Equal Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Claire Hart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The female writer most closely associated with the German Democratic Republic in the public imagination is probably Christa Wolf. Christa interacted with the regime as its antagonist and its enabler, as an ideologue and an artist.]]></description>
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		<title>Between Pen and Paper: The Poetry of Habiba Muhammadi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Her Circle Ezine</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books & Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing from the Margins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Shannon K. Winston I write To shout To live You write To shout To live But who will silence The shouting between us? -Habiba Muhammadi, trans. Ibrahim Muhawi Habiba Muhammadi was born in Algeria and attended the University of Algiers where she studied philosophy. She then moved to Egypt where she earned a degree [...]]]></description>
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