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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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#vivelafeminism: We are Femen, the naked shock troops of feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 14, 2013In case, like me at times, you are wondering who and what Femen are, here is a helpful article from the leader of the group (quoted below). (Well, I thought it was helpful anyway; some may call it hy...
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#vivelafeminism: International Feminism: Battling Street Harassment
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / February 25, 2013Wir haben uns so an sexuelle Übergriffe jeglicher Art im Alltag gewöhnt, dass wir manchmal vergessen, uns dagegen zu wehre “We have become so accustomed to sexual assault of any kind in everyday life ...
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#vivelafeminism: what would the suffragettes be fighting for today?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / January 26, 2013On June 4 1913, Emily Wilding Davison ran in front of the King’s horse during the Epsom Derby, was knocked unconscious, and died of her injuries four days later. Denied the right to be law-makers, vil...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist Arguments Against Industry of Prostitution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / December 28, 2012Earlier I linked to a piece from Meghan Murphy about the decriminalisation of prostitution. Here is Finn McKay’s take. Debates over legal approaches to prostitution have been awakened once agai...
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#vivelafeminism: Stephanie Coontz on feminism and the American family
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 19, 2012All too often, people mistake fiction for fact. Considering that we live in an era where the lines between entertainment and information have been blurred almost beyond comprehension, this becomes an ...
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#vivelafeminism: My thoughts on Femen and feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012All of this post is worth reading. I have quoted the end of it. Feminism can only succeed if we accept diversity. There is no way we can fight against a system as strongly entrenched as patriarchy if...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminist in High Heels (feminism and fashion)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 18, 2012I confess: I love shoes. Especially when they’re high. Until they wore out, my go-to faves were a pair of black leather ankle boots with dangerously high heels. They were actually pretty comfortable...
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#vivelafeminism: Not My Struggle: Motherhood, Feminism, and Women of Color
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 12, 2012Photo courtesy of author (use not necessarily endorsed here). This piece, “I’m Not A ‘Mother First’” by Jessica Valenti, dropped on The Nation a few weeks ago and has ...
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#vivelafeminism: No More Boobs in the British News?
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / November 11, 2012If American feminists think that U.S. media leads the way in objectifying women, they might be surprised to learn that buttoned-up Britain has been receiving a dose of naked breasts with breakfast for...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism is more advanced in Australia than in Britain
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 31, 2012The Australian prime minister Julia Gillard’s labelling of the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, a “misogynist” has become the focus of intense debate both in Australia and here...
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#vivelafeminism: The end of feminism? There are more of us than you think
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 31, 2012Last week there was much ado about Netmums, the website which produced a poll pronouncing the end of feminism, on the basis that only one in seven of a group of women they surveyed self-defined as a f...
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#vivelafeminism: What is feminism? Diverse range of women writers discuss their definition, idea, or experience of feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 25, 2012Editor’s note: The following post is part of a series in which a diverse range of women writers discuss their definition, idea, or experience of feminism. For more background, take a look at our Fall ...
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#vivelafeminism: Kat Banyard: ‘We were sold a lie on an almighty scale, that equality had been won, the battle was over’
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 17, 2012I adore this woman. Britain’s leading young feminist talks about the global exploitation of pornography, women’s right to an abortion, and the mass lobby of parliament she is leading. […] UK Femi...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism Was Alive in Renaissance England, Researcher Says
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / October 2, 2012When one thinks of England in the 1600s, feminism probably isn’t the first word to come to mind. But a researcher says a newly transcribed text shows that some Renaissance women launched battles for e...
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#vivelafeminism: How choice won
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 22, 2012Excerpted from “All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s”. In their pursuit of liberty and equality in the marketplace, women’s advocates challenged conven...
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#vivelafeminism: Who needs feminism (another take)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 11, 2012Another take on the “who needs feminism” idea.In an effort to open dialog on the subject of feminism and its importance, the students attending the Women in the Public Sphere course at Duk...
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#vivelafeminism: Rape, abortion and the fight for women’s rights in Turkey
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / September 10, 2012In Turkey, outside big cities, social life concentrates on coffee houses, that is, if you are a man. This week, the customers of a coffee house in a village in the Mediterranean region saw a young wom...
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