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#vivelafeminism: Feminism’s ugly internal clash: Why its future is not up to white women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 17, 2015Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who wondered what my work might look like if I “included the feminist perspective.” Since black feminism infuses and shapes all of my politics, I l...
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#vivelafeminism: If you want to write about feminism online, be ready to take on the haters
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 6, 2015My years of campaigning against the Sun’s Page 3 have given me a whole armoury of retorts to fire back at the delightful randoms who take time out of their busy days to cal me a ‘minger’. Ah, the int...
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#vivelafeminism: why feminists aren’t obligated to support right-wing women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 6, 2015Angry cries of “where are the feminists?” resound every timea powerful woman offends women on the left. Never is this veiled accusation of hypocrisy more triumphantly leveled than during election seas...
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#vivelafeminism: time misses the point: feminism isn’t about being palatable to men by @sianfergs
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 1, 2015I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...
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#vivelafeminism: time misses the point: feminism isn’t about being palatable to men by @sianfergs
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 1, 2015I’ve been reading many articles that deal with the idea of rebranding feminism as of late, but one which especially amused me was this article in TIME, entitled ‘Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretend...
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#vivelafeminism: The divide isn’t between ‘sex negative’ and ‘sex positive’ feminists — it’s between liberal and radical feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 27, 2015The divides are more accurately described as existing between liberal feminist and radical feminist ideology. Liberal feminism is takes an individualistic perspective on women’s liberation. So the pr...
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#vivelafeminism: Steinem: Our Revolution Has Just Begun
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015If I had to pick a couple of myths about the women’s movement that are most wrong, I think two might be tied for worst place. One is that this movement—also known as women’s liberation, feminism, woma...
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#vivelafeminism: Subject to Debate: spreading feminism far and wide
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 25, 2015“Subject to Debate” is an email discussion between The Nation columnist Katha Pollitt and former executive editor Betsy Reed, now editor in chief of the Intercept, as they reflect on the state of con...
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#vivelafeminism: The biggest threat to feminism? It’s not just the patriarchy, it’s “choice feminism”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 24, 2015[…] There are more insidious and less obvious threats. These dangers hide in plain sight, and come partly in the form of a version of feminism known as “choice feminism”. This term is used to r...
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#vivelafeminism: Gloria Steinem explains feminism’s benefits for men
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 20, 2015Love. This. Woman. I mean, no one wants feminism to become all about men (because, well, we have everything else for that) but it would help to chip away at the pervasive (and misogynistic) falsehood...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 11, 2015It’s 2050 and feminism has finally won. Women make up more than 80% of serial killers and serial killer-related entertainment shows. Everyone agrees that Harper Lee wrote In Cold Blood under Tru...
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#saturdaysatire: ten things feminism has ruined for me
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #saturdaysatire / February 28, 2015I'm late to the game on this piece, I know. (I've been too busy hating men and not shaving my legs, you see.) Highlights for me: Catholicism (it and I were on shaky ground anyway but feminism blew it...
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#vivelafeminism: The feminism of Game of Thrones
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / February 18, 2015Happy Wednesday morning read: feminism and Game of Thrones. I’m not sure which one I like the best. I’m also not sure that I agree that Game of Thrones is as feminist a show as people seem...
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#vivelafeminism: The sort of feminism that sells is the sort of feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / February 16, 2015The sort of feminism that sells is the sort of feminism that can appeal to almost everybody while challenging nobody, feminism that soothes, that speaks for and to the middle class, aspirational femin...
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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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#guestpost: Gender Neutral Parenting (GNP) and gender neutral clothing
By feimineach / in #sociology, #equality, #gender, #guestposts / February 7, 2015This is a guest post on the blog from Monica Lowry: If you saw the recent post on femineach on "Five Reasons Why Gendered Products are a Problem," you likely have a better understanding of the harm c...
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#vivelafeminism: The personal is political – living feminist politics by @saramsalem
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 30, 2015Loved this piece on “living” feminism - it’s harder than it looks. Also, some good insight into Bourdieu’s criticism of de Beauvior. One of the most difficult parts of my own ...
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FEMINISTS DOING FEMINISM ALL WRONG (OR SO WE’RE TOLD)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #patriarchy, #women, #thinkyblog / January 21, 2015ETA: despite the several hateful and humiliating machinations by The Sun this week, this is all still very relevant. Small victories, right? There’s nothing so controversial as a small victory for fe...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘Femvertising’ ads: empowering women (and making money for brands)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 14, 2015I’m busy as hell at work these days but I wanted to post a few bits and pieces I’ve been reading about advertising recently. The piece below describes some recent changes to advertising th...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism: the individual and society
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 7, 2015“The relationship between society and individuals is a complex one. Take the feminist: we recognise that dominant societal norms have considerable power. We recognise that the constant bombardment of ...
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