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#vivelafeminism: how to tell if you’re feminist (hint: you probably are)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / December 17, 2014Readers of this blog will know that there is little that I find more tedious (and inaccurate) than the “I’m not a feminist because…” trope. Often it’s followed by &ldquo...
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#vivelafeminism: Imperialist feminism and liberalism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / December 2, 2014I’ve posted several pieces about this lately (e.g. “Or You Could Ask Us”: On Talking Over Muslim Women, Muslim feminists reclaim the hijab to fight the patriarchy, and Why Being a Muslim Woman M...
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#vivelafeminism: Dear Feminists: I’m One of You! Please Don’t “Save” Me
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 31, 2014As feminism becomes more mainstream, there’s been a great deal of discourse online regarding different cultural perspectives for various feminist issues. The more I read through these discussions, the...
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#vivelafeminism: Universities won’t be a safe place for women until they’re a safe place for feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 16, 2014If feminism cannot engage in a critical analysis of gender and sexual objectification then feminists can only ever be on the defensive. Glosswitch on feminism, university campuses, university study, ...
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#vivelafeminism: “I’m tired of talking about feminism to men”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 18, 2014I’m tired of talking about feminism to men.I’m tired of explaining to men that the feminist movement will, in fact, benefit them as well as women. I’m tired of trying to hawk gender equality like I’m ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism in China: Risky, But Rising
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 26, 2014Interesting post (msmagazine) about the growing feminist movement in China an the risks women are taking (facing the wrath of the Party) in being active. Emphasis added. This summer I taught a course...
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#vivelafeminism: Who Needs Feminism Anyway?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 18, 2014AMEN! On huffingtonpost: I once asked my friend if she was a feminist. Her response: Of course not. This aversion to the word “feminism” is not uncommon: The well-publicized portrayal of feminists a...
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#vivelafeminism: It’s time we stopped assuring people that feminism isn’t a threat
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / August 5, 2014On Feminist Times: Finn Mackay made the following speech at Feminism in London 2013 and moved our Editorial Assistant to tears. It was originally published by Open Democracy and is reprinted here und...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists aren’t ‘man-haters’ – we just don’t like men who are sexist
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2014From time to time, I’ll respond at length to comments left on my pieces here in the column. Mostly, I’ll choose substantive and thoughtful comment to address, but this first time is different. During ...
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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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#vivelafeminism: How Can We Help Men? By Helping Women
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 13, 2014Feminism, there. Not just for the wimmin. From the NYTimes: THIS week Maria Shriver brings together a star-studded cast of celebrities, from Hillary Rodham Clinton to Beyoncé, to call attention to th...
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#vivelafeminism: Camden schoolgirls on frontline of fight against sexism call for feminism to be part of curriculum
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 11, 2014Year 12 pupil Phoebe Hamilton-Jones, leader of South Hampstead High School’s Fem Soc, with her reason why society needs feminism (@ImogenGBlake)[/caption]Link: Hampstead and Highgate Express.
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#vivelafeminism: Why having a woman’s body under patriarchy is a job in itself
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 11, 2014Excellent (and damned funny) column by Frances Ryan in the New Statesman. I like my feminist critique tongue-in-cheek when I can get it.Why having a woman’s body under patriarchy is a job in itself: ...
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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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RADIO 4, VICTIM-BLAMING AND RAPE MYTHS
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #academia, #research, #misogyny, #sexism, #thinkyblog / November 26, 2013I am determined to blog properly more often and here is as good a place to start as any. A report – It's Wrong But You Get Used To It – on sexual violence and attitudes to sex has been compiled by the...
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#vivelafeminism: What armchair commentators say about your feminism doesn’t matter
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 24, 2013On commentisfree: I am a professional feminist. Much to my father’s stated disappointment, I make my living from feminist commentary and advocacy. I write articles, organise marches, host a talkshow,...
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#vivelafeminism: A Movement Divided?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / June 18, 2013Here is a piece I wrote for Varsity Comment about responses to current ‘sextremist’ feminisms and whether these are received positively within and external to the’feminist movement’.Once a Davison Gir...
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#vivelafeminism: Nine inspiring lessons the suffragettes can teach feminists today
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 30, 2013About 10 days behind on blogging. No chance of catching up at this stage. Anyway, this on the guardian: On 4 June 1913, Emily Wilding Davison travelled to Epsom Downs to watch the Derby, carrying two...
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#vivelafeminism: Is ‘#ladculture’ causing a surge in student feminist societies?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 8, 2013I’ve not noticed this at all on the campus on which I teach but, ear to the ground as I am, that doesn’t mean it’s not going on. With reports of slutshaming websites and pimp and hoe student nights ...
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ON PRIVILEGE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND TWITTER
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #thinkyblog / April 21, 2013I haven't commented upon the recent, several, controversies on twitter and the blogosphere that have been about privilege (the idea that some of us are better off than others because of our social, ec...
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