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Jolie wrote about her recent surgery to remind women that giving up their breasts does not mean giving up their womanhood. 

As a former Catholic school girl whose "sex education" consisted of pro-life scare tactics and virginity worship, I can understand why Smart felt too "dirty" to leave her captors after being raped.

Jennifer Kieshin Armstrong's history of The Mary Tyler Moore Show was published earlier this year, as was her collaboration with Heather Wood Rudulph, Sexy Feminism.

It's 2013. Why are so many women still afraid to call themselves feminists?

Before mass media, communication and transit, the first wave of the women’s movement was already active via the most ordinary of objects – the lowly cookbook. “Charity cookbooks,” a legacy of the Civil War, championed many causes: suffrage, education, temperance, prohibition, equal rights, working conditions, welfare, immigration, and legal rights and responsibilities, while benefiting churches, schools, sororities, the homeless, and others in need.

The Facebook COO discussed her controversial new book Thursday, and explained why she thinks women are holding themselves back from achieving the same workplace success as men. 

Chicago 'Girls' might disagree, but Dunham's hit HBO show about Brooklyn twenty-somethings is still hilarious, controversial and often painfully true to life.