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All our relationships, not just partnerings
Today in essentialist claptrap
Sample headlines:
*Career women enjoy doing household work
* Housework not a dirty word
* Majority of Working Women Like to Perform Household Tasks
* Working Aussie women refusing to share workload at home
* Some career women still enjoy doing household chores
Signal boost: Call for Submissions — AP Our Way zine
Arwyn over at Raising Boychick wants you to share your experiences if you are living with disabilities and pursuing attachment parenting:
Has anyone here watched Mike and Molly?
Do you watch Mike and Molly?
Defence Minister Stephen Smith defends female cadet
Defence Minister repudiates victim blaming in sex scandal at ADFA.
A new definition of functional
This messy patchwork of care arrangements – its favours and returned favours; its sick children one week and different working hour requirements the next – are how the modern working parent operates these days.
Politician parents
Image credit. Check out this intriguing article from The Economist – “The Gruffulo Years: A striking number of Britain’s senior politicians have young children. That is a good thing”. The world changes much more rapidly once its leaders are personally… Read More ›
BFTP Friday Hoyden: Top 10 reasons I love The Sound of Music
A feminist narrative can be constructed, I think, even if it has to do its work within the constraints of a quite conventional romantic tale. Here are the top 10 reasons I think The Sound of Music has a place in a Hoyden’s video library:
Bitter
“highly educated women should quit their jobs in order to guide and “sculpt” their husbands to professional triumphs” – I don’t have a subscription to Madison magazine so I can only assume that it is real, not a tongue in cheek article. I’d love someone to prove me wrong – about the article that is. I don’t think I’m wrong in thinking this is a bad idea.
BFTP: Is Vorkosigan as nasty as I love Lucy?
This is a repost: originally published in December 2005 at my original tigtogblog (later imported here to HaT) – I’d only been blogging for a few months.
Hoyden About Town 