Sylvia Walby on 'postfeminism'
It is important to avoid the simplicity of a binary division between domesticating women and celebrating any engagement with sexuality. […] Raunch culture is bound up with the neoliberal turn, with...
View ArticleBBC News - Newsnight - Delays in paedophile database putting victims at risk
via news.bbc.co.uk UPSETTING CONTENT WARNING In this Newsnight report, Interpol head of child protection, Mick Moran, said he has a problem with this material being called 'pornography' when it is...
View ArticleRaymond Williams imagines a democratic media system #notw
What matters first is to define the general nature of a cultural system compatible with democracy … On the right to transmit … all have a right to speak as they wish or find. This is not only an...
View ArticleAssange: day two
I apologise in advance for the incoherent ranting below in response to some quotes from today's proceedings (taken from the Guardian's live blog). I'm raging. 10.29am: Mark Summers, acting for...
View Article"Naming the enemy": more on 'misandry'
Photo: Mary Daly An interesting discussion last night on Twitter in response to @thatsoph's blog post, Is misandry a myth? put me in mind of two things today. First, an article from Adonis' Mirror I...
View ArticleWhy the liberal position on abortion is a problem
(or: why every abortion is a tragedy) In her book Of Woman Born, Adrienne Rich says: In a society where women entered sexual intercourse willingly, where adequate contraception was a genuine social...
View Article'Through a glass darkly': on the films of Douglas Sirk
Photo: Sirk regular Dorothy Malone in Written on the Wind (1956) I’m a big fan of ‘the woman’s film’. I grew up on them, those black and white films shown on a Sunday afternoon: only in recent years...
View ArticleFeminism and neoliberalism: Walby vs Fraser
Sylvia Walby, The Future of Feminism, 1 July 2011, Polity Nancy Fraser, 'Feminism, capitalism and the cunning of history', New Left Review 56, March-April 2009 (PDF) Photo: Sylvia Walby and Nancy...
View ArticleWomen, oppression, and the meaning of being a victim
Reading this post from Octagon Surgeon - "disorganized thoughts about victim hatred and internalized misogyny" - reminds me of something Catharine MacKinnon said about the meaning of being a victim:...
View ArticleWomen relate to men as hostages relate to captors: on Dee Graham's Loving to...
In Loving to Survive: sexual terror, men's violence and women's lives, Dee Graham and her co-authors argue that Stockholm Syndrome operates on a societal level, providing a way of both describing and...
View ArticleGender Identity
"I-dentity (aka trans) politics is fundamentally LIBERTARIAN. It is ahistorical and acontextual. It essentializes sex stereotypes by renaming them consensual “gender identities.” It invisibilizes...
View ArticleJanice Raymond on female friendship
Feminism, to me, has never meant the equality of women with men. It has meant the equality of women with our Selves - being equal to those women who have been for women, those who have lived for...
View Article16 things about Iceland
1. The hot water smells of sulphur.It makes sense that the water smells sulphurous in Iceland, but this must catch a lot of tourists out. On our first night in our apartment we thought the sink was...
View ArticleWomen in the majority: another thing about Iceland
Photo: Iceland's Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir The Women's Rights Association of Iceland reports that as of 31 December 2011 women make up more than fifty per cent of the Icelandic government...
View ArticleSheila Jeffreys on Kate Millett (Transcription, Part 1 of 2)
I'm in the process of transcribing some audio and video material which may be useful as a reference and for those who prefer to access this stuff in written form. The first is from a talk Professor...
View ArticleSheila Jeffreys on Kate Millett (Transcription, Part 2 of 2)
Part 1 can be found here.and a PDF of the whole talk is available here (137Kb PDF file). Transcribed from video to be found at...
View ArticleTranscript of The F Word's Interview with Sheila Jeffreys
This is a transcript of Meghan Murphy's interview with Sheila Jeffreys which was broadcast on 7 May 2012 over at The F Word. The audio is available to listen to here. [transcript] MM: What is your...
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