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#patriarchiesrealign: The male glance: how we fail to take women’s stories seriously
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #patriarchiesrealign, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 18, 2018In spring 2013, HBO conducted a sly experiment on the “elite” TV-viewing public. It aired two new shows – both buddy dramas – back to back. Each was conceived as a short, self-contained season. Each h...
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#womenslives: The Yellow Wallpaper: a 19th-century short story of nervous exhaustion and the perils of women’s ‘rest cures’ – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #womenslives, #womensstories, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 1, 2018The Yellow Wallpaper enlightens the reader on women’s health, motherhood, mental breakdown and its treatment, as well as feminism and gender relations in late 19th-century America. Though many detai...
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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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#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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