For those who like the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment series, you’ll love this set of futuristic predictions from the Ladies’ Home Journal of 1901. [There’s a full text transcription here.] Metafilter users, despite their habitual and understandable scepticism, have… Read More ›
Culture
The milieu through which we swim
Scientiae carnival blogiversary
Scientiae, the carnival of women in science, engineering and maths just celebrated its first birthday at skookumchick’s place! Hip hip, hooray (and many more…)!
About time
Today’s Australian: A NATIONAL system of registration for doctors is being finalised by federal, state and territory governments, which will help prevent cases such as that of Jayant Patel in Queensland and the “Butcher of Bega” in NSW. Federal Health… Read More ›
A shallow exercise in self-congratulation, victim-blaming, and denial
Playing at Poverty at Resist Racism. A classic example of unexamined privilege in a “social experiment” about “starting from scratch” being held up as a morality tale against social security. This is a fantastic post: read it. *title from Kai’s… Read More ›
A modest proposal
A woman-shaped plot hole All of the many, I say many, people who read this and failed to appreciate its genius, especially those who failed to read any of the other comments before adding their own*, should be held up… Read More ›
Feminist analysis relegated to the Entertainment section (surprise!)
This interview may well be timed solely to coordinate with the release of a book, but it couldn’t go in one of the more “serious” sections of the paper instead? Bad form, Granny. Edited to add: But not as bad… Read More ›
“It is a great mistake to allow the girl to attend lectures …”
Remember the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? It’s baaaack! For Teh Portly Dyke, I present: “On The Threshold of Womanhood: Puberty, or Adolescence”. A careful explanation of a mother’s responsibility to guide and manage her daughter’s fragile pubertal state, so… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson
Seeing as I finally caught up with Nanny McPhee this week, I was planning to give the accolade to the ridiculously talented Emma Thompson anyway, as I was reminded anew of her streak of iconoclasm. Then I saw a post… Read More ›
A bigot is dead
William F. Buckley, that is. I’m on the same page as most of the commentors over at Making Light, and this comment particularly summed it all up: I’m baffled by the backhanded complements of, “well, at least he was an… Read More ›
Feminism Friday and 52 acts
I’ve put up a post over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog on rape myths vs statistics and the psychology of victim-blaming. I’ve also decided what my 52 acts posts for the year are going to be: I’m going to… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 