11-02-94 Women of Achievement and Herstory

    According to the latest European study which confirms earlier

findings, a woman is 2.3 times more likely to contract HIV in man-woman

intercourse than the man and the rate goes higher if the woman already

has a disease such as vaginitas or uses a UID.  The reasons are

obvious to any woman. 

    Sally Zieler of Brown University School of Medicine said the study

underscores the need for methods a woman can employ without the male 

partner's cooperation. "Women...need the skils and resources to protect

themselves physically in their relationships with me.  Because of

poverty they do not have options that allow sexual negotiation and

sexual choices." (USA Today, 10/31/94.)

    Any woman who has unprotected sexual intercourse with a man is

asking to yet increase the stats that make women the fastest growing

(and soon to be largest) segment of the population to be HIV infected. 

(And use a condom you provide that you are SURE of. "They" may be

making fun of women's condoms, but they work.)

    In the houses of prostitution patronized by U.S. servicemen in

Asia, the rate of women with HIV is estimated at 90%.

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    "AIDS started in Africa as a disease sexually transmitted by

heterosexuals, and its fastest growth rate in (the U.S.A.) is now among

teenagers and women. So far, the only group spared by sexual

preference is lesbians, a fact that must give some pause to those

believe that it is all God's plan."

    -- Molly Ivins, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1992, as reprinted in

Nothin' But Good Times Ahead. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993. 

ISBN 0-679-41915-2.

Anniversaries -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

B. 11-02-1755, Marie Antoinette, contrary to popular stories, a decisive

and able politician. Her mother and mentor was the master politician

Maria Theresa who is arguebly one of the three greatest women rulers

in western civilization along with Elizabeth I and Catherine the Great.

B. 11-02-1892, Alice Brady, stage and screen actress, won Academy

Awards for supporting roles in Old Chicago,1937, and Young Mr. Lincoln,

1939.

B. 11-02-1896, Constance Winchell, legendary reference librarian of

Columbia University 1941-1962, compiled Guide to Reference Books (1951;

1967)

B. 11-02-1936, Rose Elizabeth Bird, became Chief Justice, California

Supreme Court 1977/87. She was a judge in Tuscon, Arizona, and

California SEcretary of Agriculture (1975) Her widowed mother installed

plexiglass windows on transport planes to support her three children. 

B. 11-02-1942, Shere Hite, author and researcher. Her best known work, 

The Hite Report, one of the pioneer works on the realities of women's

sexuality not censored by men's views.

Quote du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

    "I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's

fashions."

    -- Lillian Hellman in defying US Senator Joseph McCarthy's so-

called unAmerican hearings. 

 (C) 1994 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR

71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with

copyright notice for non-profit use.