September 2009
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The SISTER2sister Project →
The SISTER2sister Project has been in operation since 2003. The aim of The SISTER2sister Project is to alleviate the cycle of poverty, destitution, and suffering for at risk teenage youth. An initiative of Life Changing Experiences Foundation, it is a unique 12 month mentoring and personal development program empowering ‘at risk’ teenage girls to reverse the detrimental effects of low self esteem...
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Performing the Nation: Magazine Images of Women... →
This article examines the complex ways in which popular visual culture can operate subtly and obliquely to encourage the citizens of the nation state to perform the gender norms stipulated by the authorities wielding power in that state while also eliciting a sense of freedom in the viewing subject. The materials examined are visual images of girls and women featured in magazine illustrations...
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Cosmopolitan Magazine and Gender Stereotypes: How... →
Cosmopolitan Magazine is a fun and entertaining publication that has been available in the United States since 1886. Although it provides a lot of good advice and helpful tips for its readers, it is important to examine some of the implicit messages the magazine sends about gender ideals and body image. Much of the content and images featured in the magazine is centered on issues of sex and...
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Media Awareness Network: Beauty and Body Image in... →
Images of female bodies are everywhere. Women—and their body parts—sell everything from food to cars. Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and thinner. Some have even been known to faint on the set from lack of food. Women’s magazines are full of articles urging that if they can just lose those last twenty pounds, they’ll have it all—the perfect marriage, loving...
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Girl's Life Magazine: Because It's Never Too Early... →
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City Central View Club - promoting the Voice,...
City Central View Club
2nd Floor (notice board advises which room) Bowlers’ Club of NSW 95 York St Sydney Tel: 02 9357 1279 (The Secretary)
VIEW established by The Smith Family for the purpose of promoting the Voice, Interests and Education of Women. All proceeds generated from VIEW activities are donated to The Smith Family.
Meetings 10.30am for 11.00am second...
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Elections for Women's Officer 2010
hello women the elections for women’s officer for 2010 will be taking place in collective in week 11, that is thursday 15th october at 1pm in holme women’s room. returning officer for these elections will be monique ewen, if you would like to run for women’s officer please email her at mewe1864@uni.sydney.edu.au before midnight on sunday 11th october. on monday 12th october...
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Model Sarah Murdoch to help teen girls on body... →
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Should Universities Have Moral Goals? →
from Radio National - Big Idea
From its earliest classical origins, education’s real purpose was to build ‘character’ so graduates could take up their role in their society and contribute to the good of everyone
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Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilisation: 50th... →
from Radio National - Philosophers Zone
Exactly fifty years ago, a 33-year-old Frenchman named Michel Foucault completed what would become one of the most influential works on the history of psychiatry: Madness and Civilization: A history of insanity in the age of reason
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Sex, Knowledge and Science (Adelaide Festival of... →
from Radio National - All In The Mind
Doing science has no room for gender and agendas, right? It’s all about the objective pursuit of facts and truths about nature.
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My Mother, My Writing and Me →
from Radio National - Late Night Live
Former Age journalist Iola Mathews talks about her search for a balanced life between finding time to write and her duty to her family
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Purpose of universities →
from Radio National - RN Australia Talks
Expectations of what we want to get out of university seem to be changing
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Indian students - how Australia's education... →
Australia’s excellent international education brand has been sullied by hysterical claims of racism and fraud. - Malcolm King
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Paying lip service to the gender-equality myth →
We have a generation of young girls who think that their rights are innate and inalienable - Nina Funnell
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Women and hidden unemployment →
The present state of public policy has disturbing implications for women and their life-long economic security.
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Fatherhood and the love revolution →
Call it a renewal of fatherhood, family revival or a love revolution, but whatever you call it, it is happening.
article by Warwick Marsh
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Balancing gender →
Last month the Australia Institute released its report on the impact of the recession on women. The news wasn’t good. Last week we “celebrated” Equal Pay Day even as our gender pay gap is widening. Lots of talk but little action. This week there will be discussions about mandatory quotas for women on boards at the Victorian Premier’s Women’s Summit. Hopefully it won’t be a matter of...
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The economics of s*x work →
Why are wages for prostitution so high? What policies best reduce s*xually transmitted diseases? And is legalisation a good idea?
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Time to end silence on child abuse →
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Home birthing: the fiscal nips and tucks to our... →
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“It is often a requirement upon oppressed people that we smile and be cheerful....”
– Engineering frosh week is sexist, an arcile from McGill (via lfar)
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“First lady Michelle Obama sought to rally women to the cause of health-care...”
– First Lady Pushes Cause of Reform - washingtonpost.com (via a-eliz)
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She Changes Lives →
gauntlet:
These inspiring health and education workers are changing the lives of some of the world’s poorest people, but many still have no access to medical treatment because they cannot access or afford the vital healthcare they need, and 72 million children still miss out on having an education. Throughout the developing world women like these are working hard to change this situation.
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gauntlet:
And now there’s this. A self-financed film about maternal health called No Woman, No Cry, for which she has spent the past year travelling to Tanzania (a country she first visited as a model 20 years ago), Bangladesh and Guatemala (America will be last). An MA in public health at Columbia University in New York. And another publicity spree harnessing her celebrity to her cause.
She...
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Beauty
gauntlet:
It could also be useful, when pondering this important question, to think of women who are not conventionally beautiful and yet are very desirable to men. The young Iris Murdoch springs to mind. She wasn’t exactly Kate Moss when she was cycling around Oxford, unruly hair, frumpy dresses, stockings splattered in mud, philosophy books in her bag, but enormous numbers of men pursued her...
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“The contradictions of Baroness Scotland are exemplary. On the one hand, she is a...”
– One woman’s success is another’s exploitation (via gauntlet)
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“And just like that, we are back in the bad old days of eye-rolling police,...”
– Barbara Ellen (via gauntlet)
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“Our society already compels most women to wear uncomfortable footwear in various...”
– David Mitchell (via gauntlet) (via lfar)
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“Women can be misogynists, too. Women can not be misogynists, but still partake...”
– tangerine trees and marmalade skies: (via gauntlet) (via lfar)
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“But it is my observation that boys at that age have less tolerance for...”
– Michael Schwartz, the chief of staff for Sen. Tom Coburn at the Value Voters Summit (think progress) (via abbyjean)
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“Both rape and rape accusations are products of the roles assigned by rape...”
– Amanda Hess (via pilgrimsoul) (via gauntlet) (via the-activista)
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the-activista:
This Is Not An Invitation To Rape Me: http://bit.ly/15Eb3z
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London Fashion Week: catwalk row over size 14... →
the-activista:
gauntlet: Stylist storms out after London Fashion Week show over designer’s decision to use average-size models in mini-dresses
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Jaclyn Friedman: Combating the Campus Rape Crisis →
(via the-activista)
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Things Guys Wish Girls Knew →
the-activista:
The things I think of when I read articles like these, no matter who is publishing them (I’m looking at you, Cosmo)-
1. The gender binary’s impact on our lives. Is it possible to qualify as a “guy” if this list doesn’t really meet your own perspective? Obviously, these are less rulebooks and more guidebooks, meant to shape our interactions and not our identities, but…
2. The...
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the-activista:
RT @EvilSlutClique: RT @lgbtlife: Highlights from the U.S Pole Dancing Championship 2009 #lgbt http://bit.ly/JmqEV
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“Men explain things to me, and to other women, whether or not they know what...”
– Rebecca Solnit’s essay should be required reading for dudes at least once per week. Once per day would be nice. Once per week will do. (via pilgrimsoul) (via gauntlet)
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Clinic in Rural Peru Draws More Women by... →
abbyjean:
igather:
Rural parts of Ayacucho, Peru, have had some of the country’s highest death rates in pregnancy and childbirth. As in many poor countries, most of the deaths occur because women give birth at home, and those trying to help do not know how to deliver a baby safely and prevent or treat hemorrhage, infection and other deadly complications. In 1999 in the Santillana district,...
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abbyjean:
Q Magazine: Are you aware of what the public think of you? P J Harvey: I’m a mad bitch woman from hell. I can’t get enough sex or blood!
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“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got...”
– Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via kristynam) (via auberginesea)
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oh, fuck you.
abbyjean:
via tpm, a horrible story of domestic violence:
We told you last week about the tragic circumstances in Lexington, where the ex-fiance of a well-known Kentucky politico was murdered. The whole thing is rather baroque. Steve Nunn, a former legislator and one-time gubernatorial candidate, had a history of violence toward Amanda Ross, including one incident where after beating her he...
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UN general assembly backs creation of consolidated... →
gauntlet:
The UK international development minister, Gareth Thomas, said: “The creation of a single UN agency for women is a landmark moment for gender equality. It will have a far more powerful voice to help fight for the rights of women including in many countries where they are still treated as second class citizens.”
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Australians in denial about child sexual abuse -... →
Every Australian must recoil at the headline story of a man alleged to have fathered four children with his 11-year-old daughter.
Meanwhile, as vigilante’s camp outside child sex offender Dennis Ferguson’s door in Sydney last week, the myth that the greatest sexual risk to children is strangers continues to flourish.
The Melbourne case is an extreme example of this fallacy.
(read more)
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Myths, stereotypes and pedophiles - On Line... →
In 1996 convicted 65-year-old Chicago pedophile, Robert Ellison, asked a judge for the immediate return of his child sex videos claiming that he would surely molest more children if he could not relieve his urges through pornography. The judge opted to achieve a similar result by sending the delusional Ellison to jail.
For judges and lay individuals alike, incarceration is often considered the...
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Avoiding a backlash: Indian students in Australia →
from Radio National - Late Night Live
A discussion about the perceptions in Australia and India of the recent spate of attacks on Indian students, especially in Melbourne.