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#guestpost: Ireland’s referendum marks substantial progress for women’s reproductive rights #repealthe8th: @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #politics, #womensrights, #humanrights, #womenslives, #law, #patriarchy, #religion, #women, #guestposts / June 12, 2018As Irish citizens recently voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment and thereby allow legislation for abortion, it earned headlines and worldwide attention during what is being hailed as one of the most i...
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#guestpost: As female representation increases, these four industries may not be male-dominated for long – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #womensrights, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / May 15, 2018Success for women in the workforce becomes more prevalent as time goes on. Slowly but surely, women have spoken up with courage and paved the way for others, starting with things like voting rights an...
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#guestpost: Implications of the Trump administration changing the definition of sexual assault – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women, #guestposts / April 30, 2018Trump’s arrival at the White House did not inspire much hope for women’s rights activists, and unfortunately, his administration has not done much to change that. In one year, he has revoked the 2014...
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#vivelafeminism: How feminists in China are using emoji to avoid censorship
By feimineach / in #protest, #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / April 20, 2018Shortly after the close of this year’s International Women’s Day, China’s Twitter-like service Sina Weibo shut down Feminist Voices. With 180,000 followers, the group’s social media account was one ...
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#guestpost: How common is sexual harassment on airlines? – @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #misogyny, #patriarchy, #women / April 4, 2018As you board a plane, it’s not uncommon to scrutinize the size of the seats and wonder where exactly your carry-on bags are supposed to fit. But other than that, we generally feel safe nowadays, havin...
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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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#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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#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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#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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“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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#malevolentmisogyny: “We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence.”
By feimineach / in #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #women / October 21, 2017We are warned not to generalise. We must always be specific about male violence. “Not all men”, we must say, in case someone gets upset. We must not connect the horrendous violence of war zones with a...
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