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#patriarchiesrealign: Hurdling, sexism, and pretty virgins
By feimineach / in #feminism, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / August 8, 2012In Olympic sports, you draw criticism if you don’t look girly enough. But you can also cause a stir if you’re, well, just a little too pretty. A recent article in the NY Times has been generating a lo...
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#maleficentmisogyny: ‘Purity Balls’ Get Attention, but Might Not Be All They Claim
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #quickhits / August 8, 2012In 1998, in Colorado Springs, Randy Wilson threw the first “purity ball,” a formal dinner and dance at which he and other fathers signed pledges to protect the virginity of their unmarried daughte...
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#research: Are Former Male Inmates Excluded from Social Life?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 7, 2012In the European Journal of Probation.Abstract:Based on Becker’s conceptualization of deviance, the phenomena of labeling and stigmatization of people who commit antisocial acts will result in their so...
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#research: Men and Women still live in separate worlds
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 7, 2012Based on the preferences of more than 15,000 university students in the UK, including around 9,000 Female and 6,500 Male, Universum releases the talent attraction study: “The 2012 Ideal Employers Gend...
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#research: Dubious open-access journals keen to attract unwary academics and theircash
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 3, 2012Heads up: via TimesHigherEd.When Alastair Harden began receiving emailed invitations earlier this year to submit papers to various similar-sounding open-access journals with what he saw as little obvi...
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#vivelafeminism: I’m Not A Feminist, But…: How Feminism Has Become A Dirty Word
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 2, 2012Last one.From: inourwordsblog I’m a feminist. Hold your crinkled up noses, shivers, and gasps back for one second. In fact, I would like to politely suggest you please take those reactions and gracef...
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#vivelafeminism: What’s wrong with the word ‘feminist’?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 2, 2012“My conclusion is that it’s not the word ‘feminist’ that people object to. It’s not even the facts – few people, even the most ‘anti-feminist’ I have come across, deny (when pressed) that women should...
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#vivelafeminism: Guess What? You’re a Feminist!
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 2, 2012I do so tire of the feminist as a dirty word/ undesirable identity issue, and the fact that that is very often perpetuated by women and not men. What follows today is a series of brief posts about tha...
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#research: My professor plagiarized me
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 21, 2012Disgraceful. And, alas, not that uncommon.I was proud of only one paper I wrote in law school. It was for a teacher I admired, the most accessible, compassionate and dynamic teacher in the place. I to...
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#research: Freelance, part-time or fixed-term: is this the future of academic careers?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 13, 2012It seems one of the casualties of higher education reform, and the austere times that pre-empted it, has been working conditions for academics. Writing for Vitae, Rob Hardwick says: “In a culture that...
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#research: Percentages who believe in god
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 1, 2012Usual subjects aggregated.In a previous post I discussed how the U.S. became more religious in the 1950s, in part in response to its the Cold War enemies (atheist communists). In fact, the U.S. is am...
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#research: Queer Issues Are Class Issues
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 1, 2012Interesting alternative perspective here which, in part, challenges some findings from current UK research on LGBT and class (which indicates, from aggregate data, that LGBT as an identity is very muc...
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#research: As America Grows More Polarized, Conservatives Increasingly Reject Science and Rational Thought
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 27, 2012Public education and even modern science are relatively new developments in human history. So it makes sense that it would have taken the populace a while to catch up to understanding that evolution d...
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#research: Sexual safety and our youth
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 25, 2012plannedparenthood:There’s a ton of interesting info in this graphic, but it’s especially striking how condom use decreases with age, even with casual partners. Condoms shouldn’t be something you grow ...
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#research: There’s a ton of interesting info in this graphic, but it’s especially striking how condom use decreases with age
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 25, 2012plannedparenthood: There’s a ton of interesting info in this graphic, but it’s especially striking how condom use decreases with age, even with casual partners. Condoms shouldn’t be something you gro...
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#research: New Family Structures Study: Is gay parenthood bad? Or is gay marriage good?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 21, 2012This is a very good critique of this clearly flawed study. Is same-sex marriage a good idea? Or is an intact biological family the best environment for raising a child? The answer may turn out to be ...
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#research: What’s the Matter With Creationism?
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 18, 2012Do you know what the worst thing about the recent Gallup poll on evolution is? It isn’t that 46 percent of respondents are creationists (“God created human beings pretty much in their present form at ...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s not feminism that hurts men
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 14, 2012I expect many of you will be familiar with the recent Observer article by Elizabeth Day about philosopher David Benatar’s claims that “sexism against men is a widespread yet unspoken malaise.” (You ma...
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#research: Men in traditional marriages have more problems with women in the workplace
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / June 13, 2012Dear lord, these are depressing research findings.So much of these things that we yell about all day exist in weird, invisible spaces—subtle systemic inequalities, exploitation dressed up as feminism,...
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#vivelafeminism: This Irish feminist zeitgeist is ready for the challenge
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 12, 2012This is a good read for anyone interested in women’s rights in general, and particularly the rights of women in Ireland. Recently, I tuned into Irish radio station 2FM to listen to Anthea McTeirnan, ...
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