Category: Feminism

11/02/2021 Feitosa-Santana

Lady Mary Wasn’t a Scientist But Was a Breakthrough Force in History | by Claudia Feitosa-Santana

Lady Mary was not an inventor, but an innovative force in the history of the vaccine. Motivated by the fear of losing her son, the pain of losing a brother (1714), and the damage of smallpox to her own skin, Lady Mary was responsible for persuading English society to accept procedures that, until then, were […]

02/04/2014 Bishop Pulitzer | Brazil | Brazilians | Cinema | Golpe 64 | North American | Parque do Flamengo | Reaching to the Moon Feitosa-Santana

About Brazilians…

“As Tom Jobim says, “Brazil is not for beginners…”, how come you live in a place where stamps come unglued, sopa melts almost before you can use it, rivers run too fast to the sea? I would like to understand this unbearable joy Brazilians have, this constant urge to celebrate, and there is your melancholy, it’s […]

16/07/2013 College Rape | Feminism Rape | Rape Statistics | Women in College Feitosa-Santana

One in Four College Women have Survived Rape or Attempted Rape in their Lifetime

One in four college women have survived either rape or attempted rape in their lifetime. The US Department of Justice published a study in 2006 of over 4,000 college women. In that survey, 3% of those women had survived rape or attempted rape in a 7 month academic year, alone. An additional 21% had survived […]