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EARLY LEARNING EMERGENCY – RID KIDS OF PINKIFICATION
Posted by Charlotte on November 30, 2009
Tags: feminism, Gender Stereotype, Pink Stinks, Pinkification
Pink Stinks are
“calling for the ELC to stop its pinkification and gender-stereotyping of children’s toys. We know the ELC is not the only toy retailer involved in this practice but we believe that by styling its stores as centres…
SLOW POSTING: A CATCH UP
Posted by Charlotte on November 28, 2009
Tonnes of Men’s Rights stories at the moment, I’m all about equality and men and women working together but as usual the newspapers make their own meal of both sides.
Guardian, Jennie Aggs straw feminist defence, MENs founders…
IN WHICH I LOSE FAITH (WHICH ARGUABLY NEVER EXISTED) IN THE GSA
Posted by Laura on November 23, 2009
Tags: Children, feminism, Gender Stereotypes, News, Women, Youth
Jill Berry, president of the Girls’ School Association (GSA), has been popping up in the press recently with some quite alarming, and sometimes contradictory, notions.
Commenting on feminism and fashion and the recent story about Cambridge female undergrads’ scantily clad…
PROPENSITY TO RAPE COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS A MENTAL DISORDER
Posted by Gill on November 23, 2009
Tags: feminism, Law, Mental Health, Psychology, Violence Against Women, Women
The number one guide to mental health disorders, the DSM or Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is being revised for its fifth edition – to be published in 2012.
As part of the review a special work group…
THE OBSERVER’S WOMAN MAGAZINE: A SAD GOODBYE OR GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH?
Posted by Laura on November 15, 2009
Tags: feminism, Magazines, Observer Woman, Women's Mags
In a rare bit of Subtext online organisation Laura and Charlotte try to decide whether to shed tears or celebrate the end of Observer Woman’s Magazine as we know as it’s content gets cut and sucked into the new Guardian
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ASKING WOMEN TO THROW THE BLOW
Posted by Charlotte on November 9, 2009
There are certain subjects that are seen as too delicate or to close to women’s business for men to tackle in conversation, mainly things related directly to women’s bodies – abortion rights, maternity to leave… And so, as a certain…
LOBBYING PARLIAMENT
Posted by Charlotte on November 7, 2009
Tags: Amnesty, feminism, Mass Lobby, No Recourse, Refuge
This week I took part in the Amnesty/Women’s Resource Centre/Southall Black Sisters mass lobby on parliament on No Recourse to Public Funds.
No Recourse to Public Funds deals with the position women of insecure immigration status…
FIFTIES WOMEN – THE DAILY MAIL
Posted by Laura on November 6, 2009
Tags: Daily Fail, Gender Stereotypes, History, Women, Women and Work
The Daily Mail this week has been featuring extracts from a new book on fifties family life. This particular extract caught my eye. Though the piece is probably meant to draw attention to the changes in women’s position and…
WOMEN, RAPE AND THE LAW SURVEY
Posted by Charlotte on November 3, 2009
Tags: feminism, Rape, Survey
This questionnaire aims to collect some fresh information about what women think and know about rape. It is aimed at any woman, whether or not you have experienced rape, as we want to know what you think on this topic.…
BITS AND BOBS TO CATCH UP
Posted by Charlotte on November 3, 2009
A study carried out on behalf of the Girl Guides shows nearly half of secondary school age girls would undergo some form of plastic surgery or liposuction to improve the way they look.
The Tory’s turn on one…