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Today's Feminists: Okay to Be Pretty

Ukraine's protest movement knows how to get attention

January 21, 2011

Source: Getty Images

Were you a bra-burner in the 1960s? Well, probably not. Evidently, the story about feminists burning bras to protest the 1968 Miss America Pageant are false. Women did protest the event — and got a lot of attention for it — by tossing bras, girdles, high-heeled shoes and cosmetics into a trash can as a symbol of freedom. But no brassieres were whipped off and set afire.

Notes from the Boob Lady

Breast expert explodes myths, extols health

By: Susan Kuchinskas

March 9, 2010

Source: Seal Press

We may travel the world in search of our passion, only to find it in our own backyard. In Elisabeth Squires' case, all she had to do to find it was look down.

Squires, author of Boobs, a Guide to Your Girls (Seal 2007), has become as famous as The Boob Lady, lecturing to women and girls on breast health and self-acceptance.

Today's Feminists: Okay to Be Pretty

Ukraine's protest movement knows how to get attention

By: Susan Kuchinskas

January 21, 2011

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Source: Getty Images

Notes from the Boob Lady

Breast expert explodes myths, extols health

By: Susan Kuchinskas

March 9, 2010

Source: Seal Press

We may travel the world in search of our passion, only to find it in our own backyard. In Elisabeth Squires' case, all she had to do to find it was look down.

Squires, author of Boobs, a Guide to Your Girls (Seal 2007), has become as famous as The Boob Lady, lecturing to women and girls on breast health and self-acceptance.