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    <title type="text">Baked Beans and Grünkohl: The Boston&#45;Hannover Channel</title>
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    <updated>2008-11-16T12:29:11Z</updated>
    <rights>Copyright (c) 2008, Joey Horsley</rights>
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      <title>A Historic Election – For Women Too!</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.1040</id>
      <published>2008-11-13T08:58:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-13T09:58:17Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        Much of the world rejoiced last week at the news that the US had elected its first African-American president. But that major milestone was not the only historic achievement of this political season. Advances by women, less euphorically trumpeted in the media, should also be noted, celebrated and emulated – starting with Hillary Clinton’s historic primary campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.&nbsp; The following firsts, reported by the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) at Rutgers University, are also worth cheering: • The number of female U.S. Senators has risen from 16 to 17, the highest ever. • In &#8230; 
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      <title>Georgia, Chechnya and the Babushkas: Thoughts on Sokurov&#8217;s &#8220;Alexandra.&#8221;</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.996</id>
      <published>2008-09-01T18:41:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-09-01T19:42:41Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        Another urgent email from Oxfam America’s Tim Fullerton has just landed in my Inbox, awakening me from the constant Obama-McCain news-stream; Tim is asking for donations to respond to the Georgian crisis, among other disasters. I am reminded that just two weeks ago our constant surfeit of Olympic news was also interrupted – though only sporadically – by reports of violence in South Ossetia. Where? South what? We had barely heard of this region, whose name sounded more like a fictitious location in some Lehár operetta or Walt Disney production. But soon enough we were hearing conflicting stories about Georgian &#8230; 
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    <entry>
      <title>Interpreting Maladies: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri and Other Timely “Texts”</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.960</id>
      <published>2008-08-10T17:20:01Z</published>
      <updated>2008-08-10T18:14:54Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        These days we can’t seem to get enough of films and books about intercultural experience: A few years back it was The Kite Runner (2003), Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first novel and then film about a boy growing up in Afghanistan who is transplanted to California after the Soviet invasion of his country. In 2000 Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for her first collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies, about characters moving between traditional East Indian culture and east-coast life in the U.S., while her novel The Namesake (2003), dealing with similar themes, was repackaged as a successful film (2007). &#8230; 
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    <entry>
      <title>Not so savage after all: Thoughts on “The Savages”</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2008:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.956</id>
      <published>2008-08-02T18:19:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-11-16T12:29:11Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        “That was so depressing.” “What a depressing movie!” The comments of the mostly late-middle-aged patrons exiting the theatre in West Newton were uniformly negative. My sister’s were no different. Still in her seat as the credits for “The Savages” began to roll, she had blurted out, “I didn’t like that! It reminded me too much of everything we went through with Mom.” Like Lenny Savage, the aging father movingly played by Philip Bosco, our mother had spent sad and difficult weeks in a nursing home before she died, almost exactly ten years past. Like him, she showed signs of dementia &#8230; 
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      <title>Reclaiming the Inner Bitch?&amp;nbsp; A Meditation on the B&#45;Word</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2007:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.734</id>
      <published>2007-08-16T19:43:00Z</published>
      <updated>2008-10-03T07:03:52Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        In her recent column “Bitch und Bastard” (08/12/07) LFP writes about the heavy association of the word “bitch” with Hillary Clinton, who currently leads the (dog)pack of US presidential candidates among Democrats. “She seems to have a monopoly on this label,” suggests Luise, who provides statistics showing almost two million Google-hits for “Hillary” and “bitch,” compared to a mere 379,000 for “Obama” and the male epithet “bastard.” She also notes, however, that the more (in)famous Bush did rate over 2 million hits when paired with “bastard,” while the powerful but secretive Dick Cheney was the recipient of some 500,000 “bastard” &#8230; 
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    <entry>
      <title>A web of democracy and freedom? Not for long&#8230;.</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2006:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.192</id>
      <published>2006-06-07T10:45:00Z</published>
      <updated>2006-08-31T13:22:29Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        As a newcomer to the world of blogging and as a co-worker on the expanding FemBio website I’m especially troubled by news that the internet may soon lose its protected freedom in the USA. Unless Congress votes to incorporate a provision calling for “Net Neutrality” in its upcoming major revision of the Telecommunications Act (COPE), the big phone and cable companies such as AT&amp;T, Verizon, Time Warner and Comcast will be able to dictate which sites on the world-wide web have privileged status and hence, speed in opening and downloading. Thousands of bloggers, news, information and opinion sites such as &#8230; 
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    <entry>
      <title>Post Partum Blues</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2006:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.169</id>
      <published>2006-05-26T23:27:00Z</published>
      <updated>2006-09-14T19:25:39Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        Here’s an unsentimental postscript to my Mother’s Day blog, one you probably won’t find in the Washington Post or the New York Times. I heard about it from friends, but you can also find it in the online edition of the Mittelbayerische Zeitung (Middle Bavarian Newspaper) for May 23, 2006.&nbsp; A 92-year-old mother from Hildesheim put in a call to the local Jugendamt (Department of Youth Services), having reached the end of her rope over the intolerable behavior of her daughter, 68; the younger woman was allegedly “fooling around with men.” The two had come to blows over the issue. &#8230; 
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      <title>Iran: A Narrow Escape</title>
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      <published>2006-05-20T12:25:00Z</published>
      <updated>2006-09-14T19:54:39Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        Scanning the New York Times “International” section this morning I came across the following item: Iran: Lawmakers Debate Women&#8217;s Clothing Parliament is debating a bill that would discourage women from wearing Western clothing, increase taxes on imported clothes and finance an advertising campaign to encourage citizens to wear Islamic-style garments. The measure provoked concern outside Iran after a Canadian newspaper, National Post, quoting &#8220;Iranian expatriates living in Canada,&#8221; reported yesterday that it included provisions that would require Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims to wear colored cloth markers that would identify them. But in Tehran, Emad Afroogh, the legislator who sponsored &#8230; 
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      <title>Ellen Johnson&#45;Sirleaf and Oprah Winfrey</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2006:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.149</id>
      <published>2006-05-17T15:43:00Z</published>
      <updated>2006-09-22T15:59:47Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
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        Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Oprah Winfrey One of the online resources I try to check regularly ever since visiting South Africa with Luise and daughter Sarah in 2004 is allAfrica.com, a roundup of news from the entire continent. This morning, ahead of more desperate and gloomy reports from Darfur, Congo and Zimbabwe, the &#8220;Top Headline&#8221; concerns Liberia&#8217;s recently elected, Harvard-educated president and the first female leader of an African nation: &#8220;Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Oprah&#8217;s Wednesday Broadcast, Continues Push for Investment and Rebuilding Assistance.&#8221; Wow, I think--two impressive women top the news for the African continent! Eagerly I click on the item &#8230; 
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    <entry>
      <title>Mother&#8217;s Day / Muttertag</title>
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      <id>tag:fembio.org,2006:biographie.php/frau/blog-joey/4.142</id>
      <published>2006-05-13T11:06:01Z</published>
      <updated>2006-10-18T15:08:48Z</updated>
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            <name>Joey Horsley</name>
            <email>rittajo.horsley@umb.edu</email>
            <uri>http://www.fembio.org</uri>      </author>

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        This Sunday is Mother&#8217;s Day in the U.S. as in Germany. From my desk in Hannover I can listen live via internet to my public radio station in Boston and keep up with local and national news. For the last several days the station (WBUR) has been conducting its annual Mothers&#8217; Day pledge drive, urging me to donate money to help finance its extensive news programming. As an added incentive the station will send a dozen beautiful roses to my mother or any other woman I wish to acknowledge on this special day.&nbsp; I ponder whether I should respond to &#8230; 
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