A woman's work: we cling to the image of women as peacemakers--even if it no longer really fits

Article Abstract:

An out-of-date idealization of women as uniformly nurturing informs the peace movement protesting the 2003 Iraq war. This cliche was cast in its present form by feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Virginia Woolf when women wielded no political power and little influence. In a time when women such as Margaret Thatcher and Condoleezza Rice have exercised considerable authority in prosecuting conflicts, it is no longer tenable.

United States, Public affairs, Women, Behavior, Demographic aspects, Demonstrations and protests, Peace movements, Pacifists, Peace activists, Iraq War, 2003-

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Order of magnitude: parsing the numbers, and the meaning, of the Sept. 11 death toll

Article Abstract:

The death toll from the World Trade Center attack, early estimated to be around 6,000, has been reduced to under 3,000. The difficulty of assenting to the accuracy of the smaller figure is considered.

New York, Cover Story, Terrorism, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, Victims of terrorism

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Paternal verities

Article Abstract:

A Columbia University's study of schizophrenia finding that older fathers are more likely to have schizophrenic children seems to have provided evidence that men also have biological clocks.

Research, Causes of, Fatherhood, Human reproduction, Schizophrenia, Columbia University

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