A medal awarded to women who served in the Women Army Auxiliary Corps from 10 July 1942 to 31 August 1943, and to the Women Army Corps from 1 September 1943 to 2 September 1945 featured Athena on the front.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

Women who have alcohol-use disorders often have a co-occurring psychiatric diagnosis such as major depression, anxiety, panic disorder, bulimia, post-traumatic stress disorder ( PTSD ), or borderline personality disorder.

Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor.

Women who engage in female domination typically promote and title themselves under the terms " Dominatrix ", " Mistress ", " Lady ", " Madame "," Herrin " or " Goddess ", with the capitalization of these terms being a signifier to their identification in the dominant role.

In 1961 Sophia Loren won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as a woman who is raped in World War II, along with her adolescent daughter, in Vittorio De Sica's Two Women.

Women may request reinfibulation ( RI ) — the restoration of the infibulation — after giving birth, a contentious issue, with surgeons who perform the procedure regarded as behaving unethically and probably illegally.

Classical authors also attributed to Hesiod a lengthy genealogical poem known as Catalogue of Women or Ehoiai ( because sections began with the Greek words ē hoiē, " Or like the one who ...").

Before the revelation of Sheldon's identity, Tiptree was often referred to as an unusually macho male ( see, e. g., Robert Silverberg's commentaries ) as well as an unusually feminist science fiction writer ( for a male ) — particularly for " The Women Men Don't See ", a story of two women who go looking for aliens to escape from male-dominated society on Earth.

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Women who adopt a lesbian identity share experiences that form an outlook similar to an ethnic identity: as homosexuals, they are unified by the discrimination and potential rejection they face from their families, friends, and others.

Women in many cultures throughout history have had sexual relations with other women, but they rarely were designated as part of a group of people based on who they had physical relations with.

Women in the U. S. who could not visit Harlem or live in Greenwich Village for the first time were able to visit saloons in the 1920s without being considered prostitutes.

Women who did not enter the military were aggressively called upon to take industrial jobs left by men, in order to continue national productivity.

Women who previously identified as heterosexual tried sleeping with women, though many maintained their heterosexual identity.

Women who appear on Greek pottery are depicted with affection, and in instances where women appear only with other women, their images are eroticized: bathing, touching one another, with dildos placed in and around such scenes, and sometimes with imagery also seen in depictions of heterosexual marriage or pederastic seduction.

Women who had the option of a career instead of marriage labeled themselves New Women, and took their new opportunities very seriously.

Women in Pakistan are expected to marry men ; those who do not are ostracized.

Women also limit who they divulge their sexual identities to, and more often see being lesbian as a choice, as opposed to gay men, who work more externally and see being gay as outside their control.

Women who are breastfeeding a child and wish to avoid pregnancy may be able to practice the lactational amenorrhea method ( LAM ).

Carol Clover, in her popular and influential book " Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film " ( Princeton University Press, 1992 ) argues that young male viewers of the Horror Genre ( young males being the primary demographic ) are quite prepared to identify with the female-in-jeopardy, a key component of Horror narrative, and to identify on an unexpectedly profound level.

Perimenopausal women in the Women ’ s Health Initiative who received estrogen had significantly lower coronary artery calcification compared to the women who didn ’ t take estrogen .” As Dr. Rubinow states, “ given the mortality and morbidity associated with depression and heart disease, and the tremendous increase in risk of these disorders during the perimenopause, it is critical that we identify those women who will be helped by estradiol .”

Women, who are considered to be already castrated, do not identify with the father, and therefore, for Freud, " their super-ego is never so inexorable, so impersonal, so independent of its emotional origins as we require it to be in men ... they are often more influenced in their judgements by feelings of affection or hostility.

The Commission on the Status of Women ( CSW or UNCSW ) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council ( ECOSOC ), one of the main UN organs within the United Nations. Every year, representatives of Member States gather at United Nations Headquarters in New York to evaluate progress on gender equality, identify challenges, set global standards and formulate concrete policies to promote gender equality and advancement of women worldwide.

Women, however, were mostly silent and men likewise rarely wrote about lesbian relationships.

Foster further asserts 1928 was a " peak year " for lesbian-themed literature ; in addition to The Well of Loneliness, three other novels with lesbian themes were published in England: Elizabeth Bowen's The Hotel, Woolf's Orlando, and Compton MacKenzie's satirical novel Extraordinary Women.

The civil rights movement, which began with Black movements in the United States as well as Women ’ s movements in Europe and the Americas was adopted by gay and lesbian organizations throughout the West, and yielded the first exploration of homosexuals within the context of the Holocaust.

They both acted as president and editor of The Ladder until 1963, and remained involved in the DOB until joining the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) as the first lesbian couple to do so.

Critic Gill Gregory suggests that Procter may have been a lesbian and in love with Matilda Hays, a fellow member of the Society for the Promotion of the Employment of Women ; other critics have called Procter's relationship with Hays " emotionally intense.

In 2008, Pinkett Smith portrayed Alex Fisher, a lesbian author, in The Women.

Women enhance and broaden their sexual activities through lesbian relationships, then carry those attributes into their workplace personas.

A satirical presentation of the island's lesbian colony is made in Mackenzie's 1928 novel Extraordinary Women ( unrelated to the Dominican film of the same name ), inspired by the affairs of American painter Romaine Brooks ( in the novel, under the pseudonym of Olimpia Leigh ).

Women were heavily involved in lesbian rights and civil rights throughout the 1950s.

Adamant that all women should have access to lesbian culture, the festival initiated American Sign Language ( ASL ) translation for deaf campers, a “ DART ” area ( Differently Abled Resource Tent ), childcare, sober support, and eventually a Women of Colors tent and sanctuary.

In the lesbian feminist alternative press, however, every Michigan festival year and individual artist received coverage in HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women ’ s Music and Culture, published by one of the festival ’ s photographers, Toni Armstrong Jr.

If the founding of the lesbian feminist movement could be pinpointed at a specific moment, it would probably be May 1970, when Radicalesbians, an activist group of 20 lesbians led by lesbian novelist Rita Mae Brown, took over a women's conference in New York City, the Congress to Unite Women.

* Radical Women in Gainesville online exhibit that documents the development of a lesbian feminist culture in Gainesville, Florida

They developed fact sheets on current issues affecting the LGBT communities ; established a Website and manages six e-mail discussion groups to help keep our communities informed across the country ; hosted an historic national conference in Montreal ( Rainbow Visions ); testified before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in support of diversity in Canada ’ s broadcasting policy and to oppose the limitation of access to lesbian and gay materials on the Internet through restrictive regulations ; presented to the plenary session of the United Nations World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna and participated in the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.

Radical Women has played a leading role in lesbian / gay / bisexual / transgender liberation struggles.

In the 1980s Radical Women leader Merle Woo, a college lecturer, writer and Asian American lesbian spokesperson, triumphed against the University of California at Berkeley in two epic employment cases charging discrimination on race, sex, sexuality and political ideology.

Kelly has also guest-starred in a variety of television movies and sitcoms, including Sanford and Son, Kojak, Police Woman, Golden Girls, Good Times, Any Day Now and in the groundbreaking Oprah Winfrey-produced The Women of Brewster Place ( based on the novel by Gloria Naylor ), in which she portrayed one half of a lesbian couple ( opposite Lonette McKee ) struggling against homophobia in an inner city ghetto.

Gayle Rubin, who has written on a certain range of subjects including sadomasochism, prostitution, pornography, and lesbian literature as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, first rose to prominence through her 1975 essay " The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ' Political Economy ' of Sex ", in which she coins the phrase " sex / gender system " and criticizes Marxism for what she claims is its incomplete analysis of sexism under capitalism, without dismissing or dismantling Marxist fundamentals in the process.

If Sagan herself was a lesbian is unrecorded, the book Women Film Directors lists her as " lesbian film director " as she directed Christa Winsloe's play, that is said to contain lesbian themes.