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This fact was the starting point for the First International Conference on Dowry and Bride Burning in India, which began Saturday at the Law School...
Women's rights in India will be addressed at "The First International Conference on Dowry and Bride-Burning in India" at Pound Hall September 30 through October...
...pave the way turned instead into a public relations mudhole. As for what delegates themselves hoped to achieve, the one-fifth of their Platform for Action that dealt with such issues as reproductive freedoms, gay rights and sex education remained under debate when the Huairou conference ended Friday. Bride burning, female infanticide, rape and economic discrimination came in for round condemnation, but how and to what extent a call to action might end those practices remained in doubt...
...debate openly." The Chinese people's access to the conference has been carefully restricted by the government, and many foreign delegates have been harassed. To rousing cheers, Mrs. Clinton also detailed a host of other abuses suffered by women worldwide: female infanticide, slavery, forced prostitution, domestic violence, genital mutilation, bride burning and rape. Later, she explained rather genteelly that "to me, it was important to express how I felt and to do so as clearly as I could...
...White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared to be a bride the night after; or a fallen ex-maiden; or a victim of mesmerism--anything, except what she was, a model posing in Whistler's studio to give him a pretext to paint shades of white with extreme virtuosity and subtlety. The story was that there was no story; it was Whistler's first...