Women's Fightback 14
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This year in Britain we’ve seen Christian fundamentalism asserting itself.
Women's Fightback 14, June/July 2012
Feminism vs religion
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RadFem and transphobia
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RadFem 2012 (14-15 July) is billed as the place to explore “the realities of women’s lives”.
French right defends bosses' right to sexually harass
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We have heard shocking words from the UMP [Sarkozy’s right-wing party which ruled until the last French election], such as “scum” [“racaille”] or “cancers” when talking about young people from poor areas or the unemployed.
Challenge “rape culture”!
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The sorry saga of Ched Evans, the Sheffield United player found guilty of rape, has revealed the alarming prevalence of what has become known as “rape culture” — the unquestioned acceptance of myths around sexual violence.
Anti-fascism must not be anti-women
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Hope Not Hate’s efforts to bring down fascist organisations in the UK are admirable.
A positive view of Asperger's?
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Detective Saga Noren in The Bridge was fairly clearly high-functioning autistic, having Asperger Syndrome or being somewhere nearby on the autistic spectrum.
Lines of enquiry
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The Bridge was the latest BBC4 programmed Scandinavian crime dramas, which sentenced it to inevitable comparisons with previous successes such as The Killing.
Can drama be feminist?
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In the study of arts-based subjects, the tendency might be to apply theories (“isms”) to pieces of art as a kind of critique, as a way of approaching a text, etc, from a certain perspective, in order to write a convincing essay.
Save the Women's Library
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The Women’s Library, which has been housed by the London Metropolitan University for ten years, could be closed.