Here’s some recommended reading to start your weekend.
- So Rachel Carson and Margaret Sanger Walk into a Room…The 50th anniversary of The Pill is also the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Stefanie Weiss discusses the relationship between the two in her new book, Eco-Sex: Go Green Between the Sheets and Make Your Love Life Sustainable. [via Red Tent Sisters]
- Kate Harding’s astute essay about why we don’t need “a Mom” on the Supreme Court – we need to shatter what Linda Hirshman once termed “the glass ceiling at home”.
- More from Virginia at Beauty Schooled about the latest developments in the Cover Girl “Stand Up for Beauty” campaign.
- An Indian news source reports that 29 girls in Nepal were sent home from school for being ‘accursed’ – five years after the practice was banned.
- The CDC reports that chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most commonly reported notifiable infectious diseases in the U.S. – and young women are especially hard hit by these two illnesses.
