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#vivelafeminism: Hundred years of votes for women: how far we’ve come and how far there’s still to go – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / February 8, 2018By establishing a higher threshold for membership of this community, the law ultimately reinforced women’s status as second class citizens. Women would have to wait another ten years before achieving ...
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#guestpost: Are women more prone to addiction? – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #gender, #women, #guestposts / February 7, 2018Men are far more likely than women to take risks with their bodies when it comes to experimenting with illicit drugs. Furthermore, more men than women end up dying from overdoses than do women. There...
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#vivelafeminism: We are all revolutionaries here review: beyond stereotyped discourse around Pakistani women and hijabs – @feminisminindia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #women / January 29, 2018What stands out in this narrative is that it stays far away from the overused and tired rhetoric around Pakistani women. That of stereotypes about women who are “oppressed” ( the favourite word used i...
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#feminismisdead: making the political personal: how psychology undermines feminist activism – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #feminismisdead, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 26, 2018What do these things even mean, outside of a psychology framework? And how would you determine and measure the results? Personal growth, improvement, realization, actualization, and empowerment sound ...
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#womenslives: #womensstories: women in blue-collar workplaces on harassment – @nytimes
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #gender, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / January 25, 2018A woman on a repair crew was deliberately stranded on top of a 200-foot wind turbine by her male co-workers after enduring months of lewd taunts. An aerospace worker got the nickname Bird Seed because...
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#guestpost: Women who still support Trump. Why? @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / January 24, 2018America's image is being cheapened by the arrogant behavior of its asinine president — that's a fact. But the damage done goes deeper than just embarrassment in foreign relations, because Donald Trump...
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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: new study finds that teen boys use “anger and threats” to coerce explicit photos from teen girls – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #womensrights, #research, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism / January 23, 2018A new study, published in the peer-reviewed Sexuality Research and Social Policy, looked at the sexting experiences of teenage girls and found that many of them sent explicit photos not because they w...
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#guestpost: #rapeculture and sexualizing children – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #sexism, #guestposts / January 9, 2018While Honey Boo-Boo brought viewers a lighthearted look at the world of children's beauty pageants, the reality is closer to the tragic tale of Jon Benet Ramsey. While children's beauty pageants conti...
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#vivelafeminism: #enoughisenough: inside a new feminist campaign to end sexual violence and harassment – @msmagazine
By feimineach / in #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 2, 2018The #EnoughIsEnough campaign—made possible by a collaboration between the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, National Congress of Black Women, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, Legal ...
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#guestpost: Domestic abuse’s ties to homelessness is a serious women’s issue – @kateharveston #xisafeministissue
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #xisafeministissue, #guestposts / December 28, 2017Imagine for a moment that the only option you have to escape daily violence is life on the streets. That's the reality millions of women across America face every day. In fact, 50% of all homeless wo...
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#feminismisdead: Why call it feminism, as opposed to humanism or egalitarianism? – @feminisminindia #thatoldchestnut
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #feminismisdead, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #quickhits / December 27, 2017Can you actually, without any guilt, ignore the existing gender disparities throughout centuries across the entire world – unreasonably and significantly directed towards women? It is important to l...
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#guestpost: Research shows women are affected more by opioid crisis – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #quickhits / December 11, 2017The United States is in the midst of an opioid crisis. As of June 2017, more than 90 people in the United States die every day from opioid overdoses. While some of these deaths result from the use of ...
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“Kelly crystallizes an uncomfortable tension that’s risen to the fore since the Weinstein story hit…”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / December 10, 2017“Kelly crystallizes an uncomfortable tension that’s risen to the fore since the Weinstein story hit: What happens when #MeToo meets “I’m not a feminist, but”? It goes without saying that men across th...
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#SignedByTrump: ‘Young and beautiful piece of ass’ – Donald Trump (NSFW)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #equality, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism / November 30, 2017[caption id="attachment_2132567890" align="aligncenter" width="900"] © Aria Watson, artist.[/caption] A college freshman's NSFW portrait series features Donald Trump's most enraging comments about wo...
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#guestpost: India’s sexual assault problem – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / November 23, 2017Statistics about rape are always heartbreaking, but when you look at the numbers coming out of India, it becomes downright terrifying. Did you know that rape is the 4th most common crime in the countr...
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#guestpost: girls don’t need to join Boy Scouts — we need to revamp what it means to be a Girl Scout – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #equality, #patriarchy, #sexism, #guestposts / November 7, 2017Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts are the same things, right? Don’t they both learn camping, hiking and survival skills? Don’t they both build fires, tie knots, climb rocks and shoot bows and arrows? Doesn’t...
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#xisafeministissue: Taking care of each other is activism too – @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #xisafeministissue, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #women / October 29, 2017(I have been thinking more and more about self-care and co-care in the activist movement. I do feminism all day long - in my research work, in my activism (when I have time - oh, irony!), in my read...
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#saturdaysatire: how to sexily deflect workplace harassment with flirtatious giggles – @reductress
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / October 28, 2017It’s no sexy secret: Sexual harassment in the workplace is a huge problem. It’s important to report workplace sexual harassment, even if it does carry the risk of never again having a boyfriend. Of th...
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#womenslives: The gender wars of household chores: a feminist comic – @guardian
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 22, 2017The French comic artist Emma illustrates the concept of the ‘mental load’. When a man expects his partner to ask him to do things, he is viewing her as the manager of their household chores. (Rest.)
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#feministslives: Syrian feminists: ‘This is the chance the war gave us – to empower women’
By feimineach / in #quickhits / October 22, 2017Activists in Syria are challenging patriarchal norms, to ensure they have a place not just at the negotiating table, but in rebuilding the country after the war In the early, heady days of the Syri...
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