Back in 2007, I wrote about Western Australian birthing statistics, based on the 2005 statistics that had just been released at the time. New data is out since then, for 2006 and 2007, in which the much-touted “epidemic” of old… Read More ›
Sociology
Volunteers needed NOW for Down Under Feminists Carnival hosting!
OK, I’m now desperately needing volunteers to host the Down Under Feminists Carnival from 5th November onwards! Please place a comment here if you can volunteer, including which month you can host (and whether you’re considering an optional theme, though… Read More ›
Open Father’s Day thread
How did your father help or hinder your feminist consciousness developing as you were growing up? Do they accept your feminist convictions now?
Horrendous abuse of PWD in NSW State hospital
Concord Hospital in Sydney has admitted that they did neglect an elderly, ill man, and the New South Wales government is once again feeling the heat over healthcare standards. Cut with WARNING, for horrific negligence-inflicted injury to a person with… Read More ›
How things have changed
I’ve been poking trhough William Heberden’s Commentaries on The History and Cure of Diseases (1802). Chapter 62, Menstrua, includes the following: “The pains, which several women experience during some part of the menstrual flux, are safely mitigated with opium; and… Read More ›
Be Afraid, Be Very Very Afraid
Two and a half weeks ago, two trans men from Western Australia won the right to change the sex marker on their birth certificates without their having had hysterectomies. Though this may seem rather minor from the outside, the ruling… Read More ›
Quickhit: Beauty, Virtue & Vice, and a Map of a Woman’s Heart
Slave2tehtink pointed me to this online exhibition, Beauty, Virtue & Vice, looking at American 19th-century prints of women. The exhibition talks about notions of ideal beauty and ideal womanhood in white wealthy American society, and at some threats to these… Read More ›
Independent midwife clients granted a brief reprieve – or are they?
The West this afternoon tells us: “Homebirth mothers win reprieve”: Pregnant women wanting to give birth at home have won a reprieve after Federal Government and the States cut a deal today to allow midwives to continue practising without insurance…. Read More ›
And now for your regular slug of GOP WTF: how they hell do they sleep at night?
Apparently, POTUS telling kids to work hard in school is part of Obama’s ‘socialist agenda’ – I shit you not.
Friday Hoyden: Barbara Moore: Feminist, Lawyer, Writer & Grad Student of the U of Melbourne. 1953-2009
This obituary has been provided by Marion May Campbell, who supervised Barbara Moore’s thesis, The Art of Being a Tortoise: Life in the Slow Lane. The thesis was awarded is being edited for submission for a Master of Arts by… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 