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#patriarchiesrealign: #research: women absent from introductory political science texts – @PSAWomenPol
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #quickhits / April 4, 2017Despite compelling arguments for gender mainstreaming in political science education, evidence indicates that very little mainstreaming is taking place. This is likely related to a knowledge gap rega...
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#research: youngest millennials who seem resistant to continuing the gender revolution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #research, #quickhits / April 3, 2017#research: youngest millennials who seem resistant to continuing the gender revolution Millennials and stay-at-home wives. Headlines: - “In 1994, only 42 percent of high school seniors agreed that...
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#todayin: austerity: welfare shakeup ‘will push a quarter of a million children into poverty’
By feimineach / in #quickhits / April 3, 2017Payments to bereaved families cut from 20 years to 18 months.Two charities say cuts will leave 75% of bereaved families worse off. •••“A government shakeup of welfare payments being introduced on Thu...
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#womenslives: The worst ‘alternative facts’ about abortion – @rewire_news
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 2, 2017Abortion Is Dangerous for Women’s Health The Reality: Evidence suggests a much different world-view from the fake narrative that abortion is medically harmful. Data show that the overall complicati...
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#womenslives: female academics and the ‘flexibility myth’ @ rolereboot
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017There’s a flexibility myth in academia. It goes like this: Academic mothers have it much better than other professional mothers because of their flexible schedule—a luxury women in business, journal...
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#womenslives: republican politician says women should be forced to carry dead fetuses to term – @broadly
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / April 1, 2017Earlier this week, during a committee hearing for an abortion ban that is being proposed in Ohio, a Republican state representative, Shannon Lundgren, mounted a troubling defense of her hardline stan...
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#saturdaysatire: local father does the weekly family shop for first time since 1997 – @WhispersNewsLTD
By feimineach / in #saturdaysatire / April 1, 2017A TRIUMPHANT Waterford father of three and occasional husband of one was quick to dismiss rumours of international awards and praise after successfully carrying out the weekly family shop yesterday ev...
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#womenslives: Mexico City’s metro’s ‘penis seat’
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #quickhits / March 31, 2017When a new style of seat suddenly appeared on Mexico City’s metro system, it was labelled as inappropriate, uncomfortable, humiliating and embarrassing. It was supposed to be. The seat, moul...
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#guestpost: different nudes
By feimineach / in #guestposts / March 29, 2017We all have different nudes A few years ago my sister and I wrote a piece titled What colour is nude? for the British feminist website The F Word, The piece discussed the use of the word nude in orde...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 29, 2017thesociologicalcinema:Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. (c) on link.
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#picturethis: Overcoming anger through street art:
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #quickhits / March 29, 2017An artist known as ‘Miss Me’ has used artful vandalism to reclaim female power — and in the process, her own life. Before it happened, Miss Me had been living a “normal life,” she says. Everything ...
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event: The Sociological Review Annual Public Lecture 2017: Cities and the Political Imagination
By feimineach / in #research, #event / March 29, 2017The Sociological Review Annual Lecture 2017 Friday 28th April, 2017 Time: 5:45pm – 8:00pm, followed by wine reception Location: Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Cities and the Poli...
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#research: Veiled lives? Muslim women, headscarves, and manufacturing Islam – @girlwpen
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 27, 2017“Much of the sociological research on veiling in the United States, amongst converts and born-Muslims alike, imagines veiling largely as an individual choice. My own data suggested a more complicated ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism around the world: economist analyzes global gender gap in the workplace despite feminist gains – @themarysue
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 27, 2017Less heartening is what happens to those women once they leave school. That’s where the seeds of inequality they’ve experienced all their lives really begin to grow fruit. The labor force worldwide is...
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#vivelafeminism: Turkish women rising
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017Turkish women risingThe tweet translates: The Assembly is reflected in the will of the people against the will of the people, you cannot present the Bill!!From @ms-magazine-blog (x): Led by a doctor, ...
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#vivelafeminism: Why disregarding motherhood and women’s bodies won’t help feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 26, 2017On Mother’s Day, a piece by @glosswitch on feminist and motherhood: @newstatesman:The question “what is a woman?” – that annoying, wheedling, pseudo-intellectual musing, of which there’s no equivalent...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) was the first woman
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 23, 2017celebratingamazingwomen: Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966)was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court, and one of the two firstto serve as a US federal judge. She studied Political Scien...
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#vivelafeminism: The failure of “choice feminism” – @jacobinmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 23, 2017But this growing strand of feminism — the one that wants to build the foundation of women’s rights on the idea that women are more virtuous humans than men, and that wants to buy t-shirts proclaiming ...
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#vivelafeminism: The obvious challenge is how to channel this explosion of popular feminist energy
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 22, 2017The obvious challenge is how to channel this explosion of popular feminist energy in order to defeat the burgeoning forces of populism decisively. The worry is that feminist protest will be self-limit...
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#feminismisdead: When one believes “the actual work of feminism is getting neglected…
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / March 22, 2017When one believes “the actual work of feminism is getting neglected,” a productive response would be to get to work… Or at least to reach out to some of those who are doing that work. But Crispin does...
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