Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. Brigham and Women's is a major teaching affiliate (and directly adjacent to the campus) of Harvard Medical School. Brigham and Women's is also affiliated with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Brigham and Women's Hospital represents the 1975 merger of three Harvard-affiliated Boston hospitals: The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (formed in 1913), the ...

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• Brigham and Women's Hospital - Historical notes

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Islam History of Islam Oneness of God Profession of Faith Prayer • Fasting Pilgrimage • Charity Muhammad Ali • Abu Bakr Companions of Muhammad Household of Muhammad Prophets of Islam Qur'an • Hadith • Sharia Jurisprudence Biographies of Muhammad Sunni • Shi'a • Sufi Art • Architecture Cities • Calendar Science • Philosophy Religious leaders Women in Islam Political Islam • Jihad Liberal Islam

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• Women as imams - Canonical position
• Women as imams - Women imams in women-only congregations
• Women as imams - Women as imams of mixed congregations
• Women as imams - Traditionally
• Women as imams - People's Republic of China
• Women as imams - South Africa 1994 to date
• Women as imams - North American Queer Muslim community 1999 to date
• Women as imams - Toronto Canada mainstream mosque; 2004
• Women as imams - Bahrain attempt in disguise; 2004
• Women as imams - USA March 18 2005
• Women as imams - Canada

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Although women had always been represented among science fiction writers (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley has been called the first science fiction novel), it was not until the 1960s and 1970s that authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joanna Russ began to consciously explore feminist themes in works such as The Left Hand of Darkness and The Female Man. WisCon, the world's only feminist science fiction convention and conference, is a four-d ...

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Christian views of women vary considerably today and have varied even more throughout the last two millennia, evolving along with or counter to the societies in which Christians have lived. Some contemporary observers accuse Christianity of holding a negative view of women. Others believe Christianity has inspired gender equality. As an example of these opposing views, many societies containing large groups of Christians granted women basic rights of equality in both legal and social terms within the past two centuries. On the ...

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• Christian views of women - Introduction
• Christian views of women - Historically
• Christian views of women - Currently
• Christian views of women - Biblical arguments for equal roles
• Christian views of women - Biblical arguments for distinct gender roles
• Christian views of women - Mary the mother of Jesus

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The role of women in Judaism is determined by the Hebrew Bible, Talmud (oral law), tradition and by non-religious cultural factors. The Bible and Talmud mention various female role models, but religious law treats women differently in various circumstances. Feminism has led to a reappraisal of the role of women in Jewish religion. Role of women in Judaism - Biblical times. See also Old Testament views on women. The role of women in the Bible is contradictory: few women are mention ...

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• Role of women in Judaism - Biblical times
• Role of women in Judaism - Views within classical rabbinic literature
• Role of women in Judaism - Present day
• Role of women in Judaism - Orthodox Judaism
• Role of women in Judaism - Conservative Judaism
• Role of women in Judaism - Reform Judaism

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The Women's British Open, also known for sponsorship reasons as the Weetabix Women's British Open, is one of the leading events in women's professional golf, being the only tournament which is classified as a major by both the Ladies European Tour and the LPGA Tour. The event was established by the Ladies Golf Union of Great Britain in 1976. It became an official stop on the LPGA Tour in 1994. It has been an LPGA major since 2001, when it took the place of the du Maurier Classic on the list of majors. In 2005 the pr ...

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• Women's British Open - Winners
• Women's British Open - External link

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Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 movie written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland. The film is a compilation of twenty one comedy skits of various lengths by a group of highly regarded directors. Many of the segments are parodies of late-night television and low-budget movies from the 1950s. Some of the skits are in black and white. The following directors filmed one or more of the segments: Joe Dante Carl Gottlieb Pe ...

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The schools differ on whether a woman may be imam (leader) of a Jama'ah (congregational) prayer if the congregation consists of women alone: three of the four Sunni madhhabs—Shafi'is, Hanafis, and Hanbalis—allow this, while Malikis do not. In such a case, the woman stands among the congregation in the front row, instead of alone in front of the congregation. In 2000, six marjas among Iran's Shia leadership declared that they too allowed women to lea ...

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Women as imams, Women as imams - Canonical position, Women as imams - Women imams in women-only congregations, Women as imams - Women as imams of mixed-gender congregations, Women as imams - Traditionally, Women as imams - People's Republic of China, Women as imams - South Africa 1994 to date, Women as imams - North American Queer Muslim community 1999 to date, Women as imams - Canada Mainstream Mosques, Women as imams - Bahrain, Women as imams - USA, Women as imams - Spain

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Based on comparison of gender ratios in India with those of developed countries, up to 50 million girls and women are assumed missing (1997 U.N. report [Verma 12.8.97]) from India's population. While this is said to be the result of systematic discrimination, including the abortion of female fetuses (officially banned in India), this could be in fact be also composed of several different reasons such as biology, genetics, higher deaths during childbirth, lower longetivity, less military deaths during wars etc. The sex ratio has also dropped from 97 ...

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Women in India, Women in India - Role models in modern Indian society, Women in India - Education, Women in India - Self-help groups and NGOs, Women in India - Missing Women, Women in India - Dowry & Domestic Violence, Women in India - Historically, Women in India - The Purdah system, Women in India - Reform movements, Women in India - Modern reform movements

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The schools differ on whether a woman may be imam (leader) of a Jama'ah (congregational) prayer if the congregation consists of women alone: three of the four Sunni madhhabs—Shafi'is, Hanafis, and Hanbalis—allow this, while Malikis do not. In such a case, the woman stands among the congregation in the front row, instead of alone in front of the congregation. In 2000, six marjas among Iran's Shia leadership declared that they too allowed women to lea ...

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Women as imams, Women as imams - Canonical position, Women as imams - Women imams in women-only congregations, Women as imams - Women as imams of mixed congregations, Women as imams - Traditionally, Women as imams - People's Republic of China, Women as imams - South Africa 1994 to date, Women as imams - North American Queer Muslim community 1999 to date, Women as imams - Toronto Canada mainstream mosque; 2004, Women as imams - Bahrain attempt in disguise; 2004, Women as imams - USA March 18 2005, Women as imams - Canada

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Women's Test cricket has been played since 1933/4. Current international women's cricket teams include nine Test teams, as follows: Australia England India Ireland New Zealand Pakistan South Africa Sri Lanka West Indies Note that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe do not play women's Test cricket although they do have men's teams, and that Ireland is a Test nation in women's cricket but not in the men's game. ...

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Women's cricket, Women's cricket - Women's Test cricket, Women's cricket - Women's ODI cricket, Women's cricket - Women cricketers

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Women's One-day Internationals have been played since 1973. The first Women's Cricket World Cup competition was held in 1973, two years before the first men's Cricket World Cup. Four women's cricket teams field one-day international sides but do not play Test cricket: Denmark Japan Netherlands Scotland There are also four One-day International teams which no longer ...

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Women's cricket, Women's cricket - Women's Test cricket, Women's cricket - Women's ODI cricket, Women's cricket - Women cricketers

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For its time, early Mormonism had a relatively liberating stance toward women. The religion owed some of its outlook toward women to the proto-feminism that accompanied the Second Great Awakening of 19th century New England. In that era, a number of notable women were given significant leadership roles in matters of religion. Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, lived in and abided by a male-centered world; most of the early founding events of Mormonism involved only men. However, a number of women had significant ...

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Women and Mormonism, Women and Mormonism - Women in early Mormonism, Women and Mormonism - Women in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Women and Mormonism - Frontier women in 19th century Utah, Women and Mormonism - The LDS Church and modern feminism, Women and Mormonism - Women in the Community of Christ, Women and Mormonism - Women in Mormon Fundamentalist groups

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Women's suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout the world. In many countries women's suffrage was granted before universal suffrage, so women (and men) from certain races were still unable to vote. The first women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was accidentally granted in New Jersey in 1776 (the word "people" was used instead of "men") and rescinded in 1807. The Pitcairn Islands granted women's suffrage in 1838. Various countries and states granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth ce ...

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Women's suffrage, Women's suffrage - Timeline, Women's suffrage - Countries without women's suffrage, Women's suffrage - United States, Women's suffrage - Reference

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Women's sports - WOMEN'S SPORTS MAGAZINES. Sporting Woman Quarterly was originally founded in 2002 as an online media outlet for women's professional sports. As a quarterly print publication with 4 regular and 2 supplemental special issues, Sporting Woman Quarterly magazine has replaced Sports Illustrated for Women's now defunct women's sports magazine. Sporting Woman Quarterly, also known as SW Quarterly, is an innovative spo ...

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Women's sports, Women's sports - Athletics, Women's sports - Baseball, Women's sports - Basketball, Women's sports - Boxing, Women's sports - Cricket, Women's sports - Football, Women's sports - Golf, Women's sports - Gymnastics, Women's sports - Ice hockey, Women's sports - Mixed Martial Arts, Women's sports - Rowing, Women's sports - Tennis, Women's sports - Volleyball, Women's sports - WOMEN'S SPORTS MAGAZINES, Women's sports - WOMEN'S SPORTS MUSEUMS - U.S.

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Women in Refrigerators Syndrome describes the use of the death or injury of a female comic book character as a plot device in a story starring a male comic book character. It is also used to note the depowerment or elimination of a female comic book character within a comic book universe. The term was coined in various forms via on-line discussions and articles. In one on-line article, comic book fan Lauren Dayap made mention of 'the girlfriend in the refrigerator syndrome' without explaining what the term meant.[5] This is the closes ...

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Women in Refrigerators, Women in Refrigerators - Women in Refrigerators Syndrome, Women in Refrigerators - Brief History of Women in Refrigerators, Women in Refrigerators - The List, Women in Refrigerators - Development of Website, Women in Refrigerators - Responses from Fans and Creators, Women in Refrigerators - New Home, Women in Refrigerators - Women in Refrigerators in Pop Culture, Women in Refrigerators - External Sites

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In Defense of Women - General. In general, biographers describe Defense as "ironic:" it was not so much a defense of women as a critique of the relationship between the sexes. Topics covered by the book included "Woman's Equipment," "Compulsory Marriage," "The Emancipated Housewife," and "Women as Martyrs." Women were gaining rights, according to Mencken - the ability to partake in adultery without lasting public disgrace, the ability to divorce men, and even the notion of virginity, which remained as "one of the hollow conventions of Christianity." However, women by and large remained conservativ ...

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In Defense of Women, In Defense of Women - History, In Defense of Women - Content, In Defense of Women - General, In Defense of Women - Suffrage, In Defense of Women - Misogyny, In Defense of Women - Critics reviews

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Ordination of women - Roman Catholic Church. The ordination of women is much discussed in the Roman Catholic Church today, as vocations to the priesthood decline and with them access to the sacraments, most immediately the Eucharist. The official teaching of the Church is presented first, followed by the arguments for ordaining Catholic women and a few facts about the movement for change. The Church teaching on the ordination of only men holds that maleness was integral to the personhood of both Jesus and ...

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Ordination of women, Ordination of women - Christianity, Ordination of women - Roman Catholic Church, Ordination of women - Eastern Orthodox, Ordination of women - Anglican Communion, Ordination of women - Other communions, Ordination of women - Judaism, Ordination of women - Islam, Ordination of women - Buddhism, Ordination of women - Thailand

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The Women's Battalion was formed on May 21, 1917, in Mariynski Theater of the pre-1918 Russian capitol of Petrograd, Russia. Its leader, a peasant sergeant named Maria Bachkarova, recruited women between the ages of 13 and 25 to fight the revolutionary Bolshevik Party. She appealed for support in a series of lucrative public meetings, enlisting approximately 2,000 soldiers by May 29. Most of the battalion were from the middle class, although there were about one hundred peasants and a number of working women. It was the hope of Sergeant Bachkarova that the Women's Battalion would shame men into fighting, an ...

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Women's Battalion, Women's Battalion - Formation, Women's Battalion - Action, Women's Battalion - Bolshevik Revolution

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Although Muslims do not formally ordain religious leaders, the imam serves as a spiritual leader and religious authority. There is a current controversy among Muslims on the circumstances in which women may act as imams — that is, lead a congregation in salat (prayer). Three of the four Sunni schools, as well as many Shia, agree that a woman may lead a congregation consisting of women alone in prayer, although the Maliki school does not allow this. According to all currently existing traditional schools of Islam, a woman cannot lead a mixe ...

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Ordination of women, Ordination of women - Christianity, Ordination of women - Roman Catholic Church, Ordination of women - Eastern Orthodox, Ordination of women - Anglican Communion, Ordination of women - Other communions, Ordination of women - Judaism, Ordination of women - Islam, Ordination of women - Buddhism, Ordination of women - Thailand

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Jewish tradition and law does not presume that women have more or less of an aptitude or moral standing required of rabbis. However, it has been the longstanding practice that only men become rabbis. This practice continues to this day within the Orthodox community but has been revised within non-Orthodox organizations. Reform Judaism created its first woman rabbi in 1972, Reconstructionist Judaism in 1974, and Conservative ...

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Ordination of women, Ordination of women - Christianity, Ordination of women - Roman Catholic Church, Ordination of women - Eastern Orthodox, Ordination of women - Anglican Communion, Ordination of women - Other communions, Ordination of women - Judaism, Ordination of women - Islam, Ordination of women - Buddhism, Ordination of women - Thailand

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