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#vivelefeminism: prayer and protest: Mormon women join the Trump resistance.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #patriarchy, #religion, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / September 26, 2017Mullins Glenn has inadvertently become the face of an unprecedented political movement among Mormon women. It started the week after Trump’s inauguration, when she and a group of writer friends were...
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#guestpost: My journey with and guide to intersectional feminism, by @kateharveston
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #women, #guestposts / September 20, 2017The topic of intersectional feminism has been in the news a lot lately, especially with the controversy surrounding the Women’s March earlier this year. Intersectional feminism directly contrasts the ...
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#womenslives: costly, traumatic nightmare of being undocumented and pregnant – @Madame_George on @broadly
By feimineach / in #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #womenslives, #law, #womensstories, #quickhits, #women / June 2, 2017Undocumented migrants already struggle to access healthcare, but doctors warn that the problem is especially acute among pregnant women. Li fled to the UK in 2012, escaping persecution in China for ...
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#maleficentmisogyny: women as incubators: How US law dehumanizes pregnant women -@broadly
By feimineach / in #politics, #maleficentmisogyny, #womensrights, #humanrights, #law, #misogyny, #quickhits, #women / June 1, 2017Today, many American women find themselves the subject of intense surveillance during pregnancy. Even as pregnant women happily anticipate the birth of a healthy child, families, friends, health car...
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#vivelafeminism: @BitchMedia: An alternative 100 days
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #humanrights, #patriarchy / May 6, 2017We're living dystopia but by gods, we got game. From bitch email dispatch: Brown Girls appeared onscreen. [OpenTV] The newly-announced Poetry Coalition gathered to defend the value of poetr...
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THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE FRAMED CLINTON AS JUST A WOMAN WHO DESERVES CERTAIN VOTES
By feimineach / in #feminism, #politics, #equality, #gender, #thinkyblog / March 6, 2016We reached the stage where this discussion about Hillary and the women vote has become "this old chestnut" already. That's how much it's done the rounds. There's an assumption that women (and particu...
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#saturdaysatire: I’m not political (because I assume I will retain all of my privileges forever)
By feimineach / in #politics, #saturdaysatire / February 13, 2016Listen guys, I get it. You hate the orange guy with the crazy hair. You love the old guy with the crazy hair. You think Hillary is a woman but she sends too many emails. Wow, you’re soooo political. G...
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#saturdaysatire: Female Trump Supporters Just Feel More Comfortable With GOP Candidate Who’s Openly Horrible To Them
By feimineach / in #politics, #women, #saturdaysatire / September 12, 2015Some honest-to-god, does exactly what it says on the tin, misogyny. What's not to love? MANCHESTER, NH—Describing the current Republican frontrunner’s frankness on the topic as a welcome change of pa...
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#saturdaysatire: Irish Government Purchase New Rug To Sweep Abortion Problem Under
By feimineach / in #politics, #womensrights, #saturdaysatire / September 5, 2015LULz! But also: srs. THE Government has announced the exclusive purchase of a new rug which is believed to be long enough to cover all the floors in Leinster House, allowing Government officials to e...
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HARRIET: PINK OR MAGENTA, IT’S STILL PATRONISING AND SEXIST
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #sexism, #women, #thinkyblog / February 13, 2015I was asked on a comment elsewhere today: “I wonder what Elizabeth Cady Stanton would think of it all?” Good question, I thought. Though the question related to another issue, it could easily be aske...
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YES, WE DO STILL NEED INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / March 10, 2014Over on the quickhits earlier, I posted this link. It was to a piece in the Indy today, entitled, "To those who can’t see the point of International Women’s Day: you are the very reason it exists". We...
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"AFFLUENZA" AND THE CHILDREN OF THE OTHER 99%
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #humanrights, #thinkyblog / December 15, 2013In case any of you, like me, couldn't believe their eyes when they first read this, it is actually all true. Affluenza (the notion that the rich can be forgiven for being feckless and irresponsible be...
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WHERE JULIE BINDEL TELLS US ALL WHAT SORT OF FEMINIST WE SHOULD BE
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #thinkyblog / August 28, 2011I’ve put about 100 things aside recently to blog about and none of them are timely or current any longer. I’m not going to blog about the UK riots because I really have to make a commentary on them in...
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BREIVIK’S FAR-RIGHT FRIENDS IN AMERICA
By feimineach / in #sociology, #politics, #humanrights, #religion, #thinkyblog / August 4, 2011If you give Breivik’s 1,500 manifesto a good read (though why would you, I suppose), you’ll see that his political influences (particularly with regard to his hatred of Islam) did not come from Europe...
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ABOLISH MATERNITY LEAVE IN THE UK?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #sexism, #women, #thinkyblog / July 29, 2011Hat tip to redlightpolitics for this piece. From the article at The Telegraph: Mr Hilton, the Prime Minister’s strategy director, reportedly suggested the radical ideas during discussions on scrappi...
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NO SEX PLEASE; WE’RE BRITISH. AND WE’RE CALLED DAVE.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #education, #patriarchy, #thinkyblog / June 7, 2011Below is an excellent and interesting critique of the recent announcement by Dave (Cameron) et al that said that we need to halt the over-sexualisation of our young girls. Dave et al are backing sever...
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DAILY MAIL SAYS MOTHERS SHOULD STAY AT HOME
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #gender, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #sexism, #thinkyblog / November 3, 2010Yesterday saw yet more "women should know their place" propaganda from the Daily Mail. The Mail reported from a recent meta-analysis that children suffer when mothers return to work in the year after ...
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