{"id":2133,"date":"2007-06-30T09:04:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T09:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2133"},"modified":"2007-06-30T09:05:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-30T09:05:33","slug":"defending-harriet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2133","title":{"rendered":"Defending Harriet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that “minister for women” is listed as the fourth of her responsibilities worres me, but Janice Turner has a spirited defence <\/a> of the Labour Party’s new deputy leader. A sample:<\/p>\n

The response to Harman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s election, the language used to describe her, the hydrochloric acid of hate that rained upon her, reveals \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for all our incoming female Home Secretary or the outgoing Foreign one \u00e2\u20ac\u201c how uneasy we remain about women participating in public life.
\nHow retro, how Seventies sit-com for a woman politician to be judged as humourless! True, Harman is that dread thing that most women know only to whisper softly, a feminist. And a campaigning one at that, who even used the stuffy old job of Solicitor-General to get domestic abuse treated with more judicial severity and to stop the trafficking of women into prostitution. Yeah, more bloody wimmin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s issues. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true, Harman is a serious person: doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \u00e2\u20ac\u201c on the couple of occasions I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve met her \u00e2\u20ac\u201c crack too many funnies.
\nNeither is she the type who flatters men by laughing at their jokes. She is a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s woman, not much fussed about male approval….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact that “minister for women” is listed as the fourth of her responsibilities worres me, but Janice Turner has a spirited defence of the Labour Party’s new deputy leader. A sample: The response to Harman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s election, the language used to describe her, the hydrochloric acid of hate that rained upon her, reveals \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}