Hoyden About Town is pleased to present: The FemmobolshoStroppo Awards: A 2007 Retrospective! You can see the nomination thread here. Bear in mind that this wasn’t a democratic vote. Our idiosyncratic nomination and selection process has resulted in a list… Read More ›
gender & feminism
Face of rescue: Women’s work
Yahoo! News China has this photo of a police officer in an emergency shelter breastfeeding an orphaned baby. Heartbreaking, but somehow hopeful as well. So many babies must have no one there at all; this baby is lucky, in one… Read More ›
Images from the mailbag
Two images from my current mail pile: The cover of the current Medicus, from the Australian Medical Association (WA branch). The President’s Column is a wholehearted rejection of the national registration plan from COAG (Council of Australian Governments). Many pages… Read More ›
Tropposphere
Ken Parish of Club Troppo has just introduced what he calls the Tropposphere. The Tropposphere is a Clayton’s feedreader of selected news, opinion, and analysis. The aim is to aggregate the “best or most popular” Australian blogs who “consistently publish… Read More ›
Another for the ‘rape is not about sexual attraction’ file
Man, aged 18, charged with raping an 82 year old woman twice, allegedly attacking her as she was taking an early morning walk in a park. On Mother’s Day. He is most unlikely to have found her irresistably physically desirable:… Read More ›
“Thus the disease may be conveyed by promiscuous kissing”
The first Ladies’ Handbook post is here. This instalment, “Syphilis” and “Personal Responsibility”, completes Chapter III: “Outside The Marriage Circle”. [Bold is mine.] I don’t really expect everyone to be as interested in old medical descriptions as I am, but… Read More ›
Linkfest: Random Thursday Night Edition
Technollama writes about a legal threat sent to a knitter by BBC Worldwide. Her crime? Putting a free knitting pattern for an Adipose critter on the internet: “Doctor Who: Partners in Copyright Crime” [Hat tip to Clive] Bluemilk hits it… Read More ›
“…it is not strange that men and women who do not recognise the sacredness of marriage should decide to enjoy what they regard as its pleasures without being bound by its contract.”
Another instalment in the Ladies’ Handbook series: “Chapter III: Outside The Marriage Circle”. The original post is here. The madonna/whore dichotomy is hard to miss in this one. It is the polluted prostitutes that infect promiscuous men, who then carry… Read More ›
Before the snip
I just remembered a conversation I had with a hairdresser last week. She was just about to do the Dramatic First Cut, as I was going from long hair to what they seem to call an “urchin” cut. (Proceeds going… Read More ›
Birthplans and Expectations
Just a few highlights from the OB-GYN-L list, in a thread dated last October, “Birthplans and Expectations”. Most of the posts can be found here. In this thread, OBs discuss amongst themselves the issue of women forming their own birth… Read More ›
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