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Jane Lane
twitters topics that rural women are talking about behind the scenes. Politics,
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Bio: Jane
Lane lives mainly on the plains where it very seldom rains.
RURALWOMYN
BLOG
Rural feminists on politics,
gender, culture, social change, social networks, health care, reproductive
rights, women's rights
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WOMAN'S BREAST CANCER JOURNAL BLOG
Hollis
Sigler’s Breast Cancer Journal
Hollis Sigler was a visual artist
who created a body of work called, Breast Cancer Journal: Walking with
the ghosts of my grandmothers. In 1985, she was diagnosed with breast cancer
and had a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. At that time,
her disease was a much more private concern and she got on with her life,
“hoping that she would be among those who had experienced a sobering confrontation
with cancer, one that for the most part was resolved.”
In 1992, the cancer was found in
her bones, and “she got angry, and then she got busy. Her frustrations
with the confusing and meager flow of sometimes contradictory clinical
information, with the lack of outreach resources, with the sense of being
isolated with a potentially terminal disease while simultaneously certain
that everywhere there were thousands, no millions, of women in precisely
her position,” led to her activism and to the journal.
She began publicly acknowledging
her cancer by painting to express not just her own experience, but her
family history, and as political consciousness raising. Both her mother
and grandmother had breast cancer. Her paintings express the challenge
of the disease, “all its moments of despair, revelation poignancy, sorrow,
exhilaration, agony, hope, dejection, frustration, and tenderness,” James
Yood wrote in one of the introductions. The other introduction was written
by Susan M. Love, M.D. Complete
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Must
Watch Video on Inflammatory Breast Cancer - You won't find this
with a mammogram
Why
I write a breast cancer journal
. . . I wrote in the first
draft of this post about how I had to insist that the technician get my
records before she did the mammogram because I (mistakenly) remembered
having a mammogram three months ago and didn’t think it was time to have
another one, and how that seemed to set off what I guess would be called
post traumatic stress, when I suddenly found myself reliving my first visit
here when, during a biopsy I heard the doctor tell someone, “this is going
to be cancer, make an appointment for an MRI right away.”
That draft wasn’t saved, and when
I began re-writing it, I began wondering why I am writing this journal
online where it is public.
How much of this does anyone care
about? Who is my audience? What do they want to know? . . . Full
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VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN NEWS BLOG
Family and Friends Guide to Domestic
Violence: How to Listen, Talk and Take Action When Someone You Care about
Is Being Abused by Elaine Weiss
It’s hard to know what to do when
someone you care about is in an abusive relationship. Do you ask about
it? What if you’re wrong? Do you offer to help? Even at the risk of interfering?
If you have observed any of the
following warning signs from a family member or friend, she may be a victim.
You can help her–and, you might be saving her life!
Warning Signs of Domestic Abuse
Unexplainable injuries
She has very little to say about her
life
She becomes timid when her husband or
boyfriend is around
She distances herself from people and
acts withdrawn
Her social relationships have narrowed
He makes all the rules
He puts her down in public
She is afraid
Says author Elaine Weiss, who
also wrote “Surviving Domestic Violence: Voices of Women Who Broke Free”,
Volcano Press, “Domestic violence doesn’t just happen out there. It happens
in our town, in our neighborhood, on our street. It happens to women we
see at the supermarket, the movie theater, and the PTA. It happens to our
friends and our co-workers. It happens to our mothers, our sisters, our
daughters, and ourselves.”
We believe this book will help you
to “Listen, Talk and Take Action When Someone You Care About is Being Abused."
Complete
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Biblical
Battered Wife Syndrome
Christian Women and Domestic Violence
What is a good enough reason for
divorce? Well, according to Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, divorce is
only permitted in cases of adultery or abandonment — as these are the only
cases permitted in the Bible — and never for abuse.
As teaching pastor Tom Holladay explains,
spousal abuse should be dealt with by temporary separation and church marriage
counseling designed to bring about reconciliation between the couple. But
to qualify for that separation, your spouse must be in the “habit of beating
you regularly,” and not be simply someone who “grabbed you once.” Complete
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RURALWOMYN
EMAIL LIST
Ruralwomyn List has been the online
community behind the Rural Womyn Zone web site. Now we are transitioning
from the email list to a Facebook group. Watch here for news.
We use the online community to overcome
the geographical and other barriers that prevent most of us from ever meeting
face to face. It allows us to share our experiences as rural women and
explore the concept of "rural women" as a group.
Topics range from all aspects of
daily living to substantive issues, how they impact women, and more specifically,
women in the rural U.S.
You do not have to identify with
the women's movement or with feminism in order to belong to this group.
But the list assumes the validity of the women's movement and explores
the gap between feminism and rural women's experiences.
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