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Lecherous Limericks. First edition. (publ. Walker and Company) Lecherous Limericks [1] [2] is the first of several compilations of dirty limericks by celebrated author Isaac Asimov (1920–1992). The book contains 100 limericks. The first limerick in the collection is: There was a sweet girl of Decatur. Who went to sea on a freighter.
University of Pennsylvania. Kathleen Hall Jamieson (born November 24, 1946) is an American professor of communication and the director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. She co-founded FactCheck.org, and she is an author, most recently of Cyberwar, in which she argues that Russia very likely helped Donald J ...
Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University. [1] [2] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism 's key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement.
Elect Her is a national non-partisan organisation which supports women who want to get involved in politics. It has found there are a number of barriers which prevent women from standing ...
Cathy Odgers. Cathy Odgers is a New Zealand-born, Hong Kong -based former blogger and lawyer who is best known for running a smear campaign against the head of the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office. [1] [2] She published the Cactus Kate blog, [3] [4] and wrote the fortnightly Cactus Kate column in The Dominion Post from 2006 to 2009.
A prison cell during the dirty protest. The dirty protest (also called the no wash protest) [1] was part of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) prisoners held in the Maze Prison (also known as "Long Kesh") and a protest at Armagh Women's Prison in Northern Ireland.
The only women's prison in Northern Ireland, Armagh Prison was built in the late eighteenth century and had served as a holding place for Irish republican prisoners. In 1975, the population of Irish republican women prisoners reached a high of 120; but a population between 60 and 70 was more common, usually women under the age of 25.
Women rights in Francoist Spain (1939–1975) and the democratic transition (1975–1985) were limited. The Franco regime immediately implemented draconian measures that legally incapacitated women, making them dependents of their husbands, fathers or the state. Moderate reforms would not begin until the 1960s, with more dramatic reforms taking ...