I don’t have time to do justice to the mountains of myths about women who have positions of some status and authority amongst other women as advisors, counsellors and healers…
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Friday Hoyden: Best Feminist Young Adult Books
What was the first book you read and thought “wow, I never knew girls/women could do that“? Or alternatively, the first book you read and thought “why on earth would those people think girls/women shouldn’t do that?”.
Friday Hoyden: Jane Austen Fight Club
For those of you who haven’t already seen it.
Friday Hoyden: Claudia Alexander
I saw this marvelously enthused woman on my television last night as one of the experts on the Voyage to the Planets series, talking about her time as project manager at JPL for the final stage of the Galileo space… Read More ›
Friday Hoyden: Annie Lennox
I can’t remember when I wasn’t a fan of Annie Lennox. That glorious voice and the amazing style of her costumes and performances, that sense of gracious absurdity, fierce compassion and joyous gravitas. She has always stood out.
I see a great need
You tell ’em, Eleanor!
Friday Hoyden: Aretha Franklin
So much to love – where to start?
Friday Hoyden: Jane Goodall
But what Goodall discovered made biologists, psychologists and philosophers look more closely at the great apes and their similarities to humans, provoking redefinitions of exactly what it meant to be human, and raising the question of just how far back in pre-history should paleo-anthropologists be looking for clues to the development of human behaviours.
Quick Hit – Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women (NSW)
Expressions of interest are invited for membership of the Premier’s Expert Advisory Council on Women. The Premier’s Expert Advisory Council provides specialist advice to the NSW Government about issues affecting the status of women in NSW. It is an expert… Read More ›
Whoydensday: MOFF TIEM NAO
This year, Australia is only two weeks behind the UK for Doctor Who — “The Eleventh Hour” — the first episode of the fifth series of New Who will be airing on ABC at 7:30pm this Sunday April 18th, BUT… Read More ›