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#research: Feminism blamed for rising female violence
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 3, 2010Feminism blamed for rising female violence, via onlylivinglesbian: A Northern Territory researcher says studies show women can be just as violent as men and social changes are behind a reported rise ...
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#vivelafeminism: The fake feminism of Sarah Palin
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 31, 2010The fake feminism of Sarah Palin(via jonesmattingly) But, of course, Palin isn’t a feminist — not in the slightest. What she calls “the emerging conservative feminist identity” isn’t the product of a...
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#vivelafeminism: Slip away the modesty cloth of faux-feminist posturing over the veil…
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 30, 2010“Slip away the modesty cloth of faux-feminist posturing over the veil and you’ll find an ugly skin of nationalism, male intolerance and misogyny. The veil: a modesty slip for misogyny
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#maleficentmisogyny: #research: New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / May 29, 2010New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media loliesmith: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has recently issued a report of the results of studies conducted ...
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#research: New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized inMedia
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / May 29, 2010New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media loliesmith: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has recently issued a report of the results of studies conducted ...
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#vivelafeminism: Women Are To Blame For The Death of Family Dinners?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 28, 2010Women Are To Blame For The Death of Family Dinners?(via herowhore) Pollan’s recent piece in the New York Review of Books discusses the death of the family meal and puts the blame on women who wanted ...
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#vivelafeminism: 40 years of change in the lives of Irish women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 28, 201040 years of change in the lives of Irish women 8 Refuse to have sex with her husband In 1970 the phrase “marital rape” was a contradiction in terms. A husband was assumed to have the right to have se...
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#research: Her Husband’s Last Name: Does a Woman’s Identity Change, Too?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 26, 2010Her Husband’s Last Name: Does a Woman’s Identity Change, Too?(via godsmokesparliaments) … A group of Dutch researchers recently found that women who change their name at marriage make nea...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism is hated because women are hated
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 25, 2010“Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of women hating. Andrea Dworkin
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#vivelafeminism: For me feminism is, more than any other single thing, not a movement
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 25, 2010“For me feminism is, more than any other single thing, not a movement, not a cause, not a revolution, but rather a profoundly new way of interpreting human experience. It is a vital piece of informati...
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#research: Australian Survey Shows Dangerous Attitudes Towards Violence AgainstWomen
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 11, 2010Australian Survey Shows Dangerous Attitudes Towards Violence Against Womenthecurvature:One subject of concern is that a rather high numbers of men and women agreed that there are some situations under...
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#vivelafeminism: #research: Study says most women don’t regret abortion
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 5, 2010Study says most women don’t regret abortion: …a study out this month finds that 80% of women were not depressed after having an abortion. In fact, the rate of depression in the postabortion group was ...
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#research: Study says most women don’t regret abortion
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / April 5, 2010Study says most women don’t regret abortion: …a study out this month finds that 80% of women were not depressed after having an abortion. In fact, the rate of depression in the postabortion group was ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism is your pain reflected in another woman’s voice
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 2, 2010“Feminism is your pain reflected in another woman’s voice, and realizing there is nothing wrong with you, and nothing wrong with her, but something wrong with the world that makes you think that way. ...
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#vivelafeminism: Men come to me or to other feminists and say…
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 30, 2010“Men come to me or to other feminists and say: “What you’re saying about men isn’t true. It isn’t true of me. I don’t feel that way. I’m opposed to all of this.” And I say: don’t tell me. Tell the por...
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#maleficentmisogyny: #research: Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse: TheCurvature
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / March 30, 2010Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse: The Curvature A new study has been released on the views held by men who have been known to commit intimate partner violence (IPV). While t...
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#research: abusive men overestimate the rate at which other men abuse: thecurvature
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 30, 2010Abusive Men Overestimate the Rate at Which Other Men Abuse: The Curvature A new study has been released on the views held by men who have been known to commit intimate partner violence (IPV). While t...
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#research: Getting women into science
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 28, 2010Getting women into scienceWhat is to blame for the persistent lack of women in the hard sciences and in technology? The New York Times explores what the writer Katrin Bennhold describes as “Risk and o...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism works so well for women we should try it on men
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 14, 2010Feminism works so well for women we should try it on men And what exactly is the state of feminism? The problem, as Joan Smith acknowledged in a piece in last week’s issue of this newspaper, has esse...
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#vivelafeminism: The rights of woman: How far have they advanced?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 7, 2010The rights of woman: How far have they advanced? It was in a dingy socialist meeting hall a century ago in Copenhagen that women from 17 countries gathered and launched the idea of a day which would ...
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