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Feminism

The Safety First petition

November 18, 2007 – 9:48 pm

Over on the Green World website I’ve an article about the Safety First campaign to entirely decriminalise sex work and the activities associated with it – I’d encourage you to sign the online petition.

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Feminism

Sex as ‘women’s work’

November 11, 2007 – 8:06 pm

Over on My London Your London I’ve a review of Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now at the Barbican. What struck me is in how many images, across ages and cultures, it is clearly the women who are working in these images – physically and mentally – while it is the men, both the subjects in the image, and those gazing at them, who are enjoying the fruits of those labours.

What is also clear is how the claim for universal meanings for sex, made by the curators at the start, is utterly not supported. I was taken by a collection from Persia of horoscopes for 28 Qajar princes and princesses, including images of sexual postures. Not quite a Daily Mail idea of royalty.

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Feminism

How many more times?

November 6, 2007 – 12:40 am

How many more times will we have to read stories like this?

A police officer pleaded guilty to a misconduct charge today following an independent inquiry into the fatal stabbing of a mother of three. PC Charlotte Hall admitted breaching the police code of conduct by failing to perform her duties “diligently and conscientiously” when she was called to the home of Colette Lynch two days before she was killed by her estranged partner.

So much energy, effort and panic is wasted on concerns about “stranger danger”. Yet women are – overwhelmingly – at risk from their partners and ex-partners.

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Feminism

My view from the Global Safe Abortion Conference

October 29, 2007 – 5:14 pm

Is now up on Comment is Free – and it does, I think, go into some new ground, with which I’m still somewhat wrestling.

Should you feel like going over to add some intelligent discussion, whether you agree with me or not, it would be most welcome.

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Appeasing the planet

October 29, 2007 – 1:13 am

A powerful piece from an economist, no less, well OK, the Guardian’s economic editor, on the current UK government’s attitude to climate change:

Indeed, one way to characterise the government’s approach to climate change is to compare it to that of the Chamberlain government in the late 1930s. Once it became clear that Britain really could not do business with Hitler, rearmament began, but the process was half-hearted.
Right up until the moment war was declared, Chamberlain hoped something would turn up, that somebody else, Stalin perhaps, would do Britain’s dirty work for it. And, to be fair, he had public opinion with him. There was scant appetite in the Britain of late 1938 or early 1939 for war with Germany, just as there is now no great clamour from the public for the lifestyle changes that would be necessary to make the sort of drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that Stern and others say are needed.

But if you are now really depressed, go over to Alas, a blog, for this great post, which wittily (if with a great deal of hard work behind the scenes), explains how feminism is for everybody.

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Feminism

Working for nothing….

October 26, 2007 – 1:27 pm

From the Fawcett Society:

If you do just one thing for Women’s No Pay Day, do this:
Sign our online petition to Gordon Brown demanding stronger action on the pay gap that rips women off. It takes less than a couple of minutes.
Fawcett and UNISON have joined forces to declare October 30th Women’s No Pay Day because the 17% hourly pay gap is equivalent to men getting paid all year but women working for nothing from October 30th until the year-end.

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