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#research: Sexualisation of little girls linked with negative body image
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 29, 2014On collectiveshout: “A new study from Flinders University has found that little girls are adopting potentially sexualised behaviours usually associated with teenage girls. Little girls’ engagement wit...
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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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By feimineach / in #quickhits / August 25, 2014
burning bras. © bellbis.tumblr.com via upworthy. (Rest of image on link.)
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / August 25, 2014
burning bras. © bellbis.tumblr.com via upworthy. (Rest of image on link.)
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#research: women who read 50 Shades more likely to tolerate abusive and controlling behaviours
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 24, 2014From mic.com: “Anastasia Steele’s biggest defeat may not have been submitting to her abuser’s sexual desires, but convincing other women that the behavior was okay. At least that’s the finding of a ne...
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#research: study raises questions about why women are less likely than men to earn tenure at research universities
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 19, 2014Fault of (sexist?) tenure process and not research productivity: ‘“It’s not that we need to make women more productive. It’s that we need to change the processes,” said Kate Weisshaar, a graduate stud...
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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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By feimineach / in #quickhits / August 14, 2014
The fact is, like it or not, you still live a world where gender matters. Where gender controls not just the entire course of your life – but the lives of women all over the world. Every second, a chi...
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#research: Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 8, 2014Linked below is a PDF of the Department for International Development’s quarterly Violence Against Women and Girls Evidence Digest, summarising the latest evidence on drivers of VAWG and what works to...
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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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#research: Honor killings condoned by third of teens in Amman, Jordan
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 4, 2014Emphasis added:Almost half of boys and one in five girls in Jordan’s capital city, Amman, believe that killing a woman who has “dishonored,” or shamed, her family is justifiable, a study of teenagers’...
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#feminismisdead: #WomenAgainstFeminism, Privilege and Feminist Activism
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / August 4, 2014The tweets and posts on Women against Feminism demonstrate a fundamental misunderstanding as to what feminism actually is: the liberation of women. More excellent commentary by Louise Pennington (ele...
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#feminismisdead: For some reason, feminism is seen as super anti
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / August 1, 2014For some reason, feminism is seen as super anti: anti-men, anti-sex, anti-sexism, anti-everything. And while some of those antis aren’t bad things, it’s not exactly exciting to get involved in somethi...
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#research: Racism And Sexism Look Different Than You Think
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / August 1, 2014Racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination don’t look the way they used to. Today it’s more about giving a leg up to people who are similar to you than trying to hurt people who are...
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#feminismisdead: Critiquing the #WomenAgainstFeminism tag doesn’t require insulting the appearance
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / July 22, 2014Critiquing the #WomenAgainstFeminism tag doesn’t require insulting the appearance & intelligence of the women posting on it. It doesn’t require replicating misogynistic language or insults. It req...
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#research: Seven studies on mansplaining. Conclusion: it definitely exists
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 15, 2014Below are summaries of studies into the idea of “mansplaining”, which describes the act of a man speaking to a woman with the assumption that she knows less than he does about the topic being discusse...
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: TV’S SHAME. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
By feimineach / in #feminism, #womensrights, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #thinkyblog / July 12, 2014I've just finished watching True Detective. I started watching it, twice, but left it both times because of the ways in which violence against women, and women characters, were being portrayed.* In te...
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#research: What Looks Like Sexism and Why? The Effect of Comment Type and Perpetrator Type on Women’s Perceptions of Sexism
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 11, 2014Very interesting indeed. We (potentially) grade sexist comments and perceive some comments (hostile and from strangers or bosses) to be more sexist than others (benevolent and from boyfriends).Abstrac...
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By feimineach / in #quickhits / July 2, 2014
These are actual human beings - who kiss their kids goodnight hours after smirkingly calling women whores - who are doing this, not just anonymous trolls. Jessica Valenti (facebook) on the abuse she ...
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#research: Poll: One in four British women think their main role is in home
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / July 1, 2014Unexpected statistic here. Also, some interesting international comparisons.Almost one in four British women believe their main role in life is to be a good wife and mother, an international study has...
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