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#feminismisdead: How do you get teenagers to think feminism is “cool”?
By feimineach / in #feminismisdead, #quickhits / March 7, 2013I’m not sure that it’s “cool” we’re after but the points about feminism being seen as some sort on unsavoury, historical, hanger-on are good. Last week we took part in t...
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#research: Advertising masculinity: Why ads in magazines like Playboy depict men as violent, horny, and angry.
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / March 4, 2013What makes an ideal man? Page through the advertisements placed in a standard American men’s magazine, and you’ll find one idea: He is a stomping, yelling, shooting, drinking, fucking, tough guy. He h...
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#picturethis: #anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: 100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women’s Suffrage Parade (Washington DC)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 3, 2013This is an amazing collection of photographs from the Library of Congress. They are from the Women’s Suffrage Parade which took place in Washington DC on the 3rd of March 1913.Captions etc. on the lin...
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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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#research: Genders Aren’t So Different After All (so can we stop the Mars/ Venusthing now?)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 21, 2013Seriously, no one wants to hear the men are from mars and women are from venus (or whatever it was) trope any more. It was never a very good analogy anyway. Dating book authors and policymakers alike...
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#research: Feminised job titles encourage discrimination against women
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 20, 2013‘Feminised’ and gender specific job titles leave women being perceived as less capable, it suggests. Women who hold them were likely to be assessed as less impressive professionally than e...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Invisible Women: The Real History of Domestic Workers in America
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / February 19, 2013MotherJones presents a concise account of domestic workers’ (mainly women, of course) struggles for rights in the US. As the push for immigration reform continues, the Senate Gang of Eight&rsqu...
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#research: Crime show viewers more likely to aid sexual assault victims
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 19, 2013I would not have predicted this. (I think I would have predicted some sort of desensitisation.) Viewers of prime-time crime dramas, like NCIS, CSI or Law & Order, are more inclined than nonviewer...
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#research: Trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 17, 2013A University of Cambridge Study has found that trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons. Females who have been trafficked into the UK to work as prostitutes, drug mules or domestic serv...
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#research: Violence against women in intimate relations: A contrast of five theories (journal article)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / February 13, 2013This is a good (methodologically and theoretically sound), and important, study.(The full text is available, if you would like it. Comment below etc.)Abstract:This paper explores the correlates of vio...
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#research: Did the pro-life movement lead to more single mothers? (Problematic assumptions gratis.)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 26, 2013I’m generally interested in the discussion in this article (i.e. the potential sociological impact of the pro-life movement) but I’m a bit concerned with its implication that single motherhood is A Ba...
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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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#research: Sexual discrimination in science: why we must act now
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 19, 2013From the guardian:Can it be that women are treated less fairly than men? A deceptively simple piece of research led by Jo Handelsman at Yale University has recently suggested that they are. The autho...
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#research: Overweight women more likely to experience weight-based discrimination in court of law
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 16, 2013The stereotypes which seem to underlie this trend are horrendous.From feministing:A new study, including a jury and mock trial, shows that overweight women are more likely to be penalized in the court...
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#research: 2012 brought second highest number of abortion restrictions ever (US)
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 7, 2013From feministing:The Guttmacher Institute is reporting that 2012 saw the second highest number of abortion restrictions (43 in 19 states) ever. The scary thing is that this is better than 2011, when a...
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#research: New study on sexual assault in the military
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2013From christinedecleene: According to a recent news article, more than 1,100 female military members who served in or near Iraq or Afghanistan were asked to complete anonymous mail surveys as part of ...
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#research: We need to attract more people of colour, women to STEM fields
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / January 3, 2013This piece sets itself up as discussing the “five reasons” why we need more women and minorities in STEM fields. As it turns out, it doesn’t explore those reasons in any depth at all...
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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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#research: Spike In Gender Inequality In Japan
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 27, 2012It’s interesting that they phrase the trend as growing support for gender equality. Does that imply that gender equality itself has not been so remarkable? After 17 years of growing support for...
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#research: Study demonstrates sexism in science
By feimineach / in #research, #quickhits / December 23, 2012You might recall the European Union’s rather ill-conceived attempt to address the gender imbalance in science by releasing “Science: It’s a Girl Thing” - a video featuring much...
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