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By blue milk on April 1, 2012
These are the words that made me love Adrienne Rich’s work: This is what living with children could be – without school hours, fixed routines, naps, the conflict of being both mother and wife with no room for being simply, myself. Driving home once, after midnight, from a late drive-in movie… with three sleeping children [...]
Posted in arts & entertainment, Culture, gender & feminism, language, parenting, Sociology, violence | Tagged feminist icons, poetry |
By tigtog on November 15, 2011
Gloria Steinem has been an outspoken figure on behalf of women’s rights and the pro-choice movement for half a century.
Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, history, social justice | Tagged feminist icons
By blue milk on July 28, 2011
.. when you said you want to wear white and be a princess for a day?
Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism, relationships | Tagged cinema, feminist icons |
By tigtog on December 22, 2010
Harriet J: “Dear Second and Third Wave Feminists With Publicly Recognizable Names …Please give us somebody else to point to when we are told that we can be raped in the ways Naomi Wolf has decreed are acceptable…Please do not let Naomi Wolf become the voice of what is rape, because rapists were listening when she spoke, and judges, and juries, and future victims who will spend their lives believing it was their fault, and they are always saying “yes” if they are not shouting “no.” “
Posted in ethics & philosophy, gender & feminism, violence | Tagged enthusiastic consent, feminist icons, rape apologism, rape culture |
By tigtog on September 8, 2010
Please share links to other articles celebrating the works of bell hooks, or your favourite bell hooks quote, in comments.
Posted in gender & feminism, social justice | Tagged feminist icons, Read-ems
By Emily Manuel on January 8, 2010
Having read over the various obituaries for Mary Daly the past couple days, I’ve found myself more and more angry at the various defences marshalled in her defence (I particularly recommend Sady’s one at Tiger Beatdown), I’ve found myself more and more angry at the various defences marshalled in her defence. And it’s not that [...]
Posted in gender & feminism | Tagged australia, feminist icons, trans |
By Lauredhel on August 8, 2009
I’m reading bell hooks’ Feminist Theory; From Margin to Center. Coincidentally, I started reading Chapter Ten, “Revolutionary Parenting”, just after reading this thread at Feministe, “Sacrifice, Parenting, and Feminism“, particularly bfp’s comments (21-24, 41-42). It also serves as an important privilege check, and a reminder that the recent work of white feminist mothers isn’t anything [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, work and family | Tagged class, feminist icons, mothering |
By Lauredhel on November 18, 2008
Germaine Greer in The Guardian’s World News section: “If Michelle Obama’s such a great dresser, what was she doing in this red butcher’s apron?” The one sour note to resound through the jubilation at the election of Barack Obama was an undercurrent of fear and loathing of the dress Michelle Obama wore on election night. [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, Politics | Tagged fashion, feminist icons, Germaine Greer, guardian, race & racism |
By tigtog on August 22, 2008
I found this image on this media release page at the Southern Cross University website, which uses it to illustrate promotional information for “An Evening With Germaine Greer” that took place in early 2008. I chose it because it is a relatively neutral portrait, unlike the usual photos that emphasise either her strident aspect or [...]
Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, history, indigenous, media | Tagged books & writing, controversy, feminist icons, Germaine Greer, hoydens, social change |
By Lauredhel on March 13, 2008
[image source] I’ve just finished listening to Germaine Greer on Margaret Throsby’s show this morning. I really like Margaret Throsby – a relaxed and respectful interviewer, she draws her guests out, allows them plenty of space, gets down to personal stuff. Greer talks about her Anne Hathaway book, life as an academic in England, her [...]
Posted in gender & feminism, media | Tagged abc, feminist icons, feminists, Germaine Greer, hoydens |
By tigtog on December 6, 2007
Onya Germs! Short summary: Professor Greer was in Melbourne town last weekend to be the keynote speaker at a literary conference on Jane Austen and Comedy. Many Ozbloggers who are fans of Jane Austen and Comedy attended (I would have too if other areas of my life had been better behaved so that I could [...]
Posted in culture wars, gender & feminism, Politics, social justice, violence | Tagged bigotry, books & writing, feminist icons, Germaine Greer, rape, sexual violence, sexuality and health, social change, social justice, solidarity |
By tigtog on June 29, 2007
Well, I try and kick arse, but I don’t really think I kick an Angela Davis level of arse. (Updated to Add: see, although Crikey! has just described Hoyden About Town as “dispens[ing] its femmobolsho views loudly, proudly and with plenty of bite”, in contrast The Stranger‘s blog Slog last week called us a “charming [...]
Posted in fun & hobbies, gender & feminism | Tagged blogging, feminist icons, hoydens, travel |
By tigtog on February 10, 2006
It’s no secret that Germaine Greer is is not now, and never has been, especially enamoured of Betty Friedan’s seminal work, The Feminine Mystique. Her own seminal work, The Female Eunuch, was conceived as a direct counterpoint to Friedan’s book. So I guess it’s also no surprise that Greer avoids hagiography in her epitaph for [...]
Posted in arts & entertainment, gender & feminism | Tagged books & writing, classics, feminist icons, social change |
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