Happy Anniversary To A Law That Barred Women From Smoking In Public
No need to celebrate—but today marks the anniversary of the passage of one of many inane laws women have been subjected to over the course of American history, just because they have lady parts. On...
View ArticleDavid Goldblatt’s “Particulars” – photos from apartheid-era South Africa
Childminder. Joubert Park, Johannesburg, 1975. Photograph by David Goldblatt, courtesy Steidl In 1975, while shooting portraiture during the height of apartheid, the South African photographer David...
View ArticleStreet art in Greece: austerity
Street art in Greece: austerity In this photo taken on Monday Feb. 17, 2014, an anti-austerity work of street art featuring the Dalton Brothers from the Belgian comic ‘Lucky Luke’ is seen in the...
View ArticleToday in sexism: plain of feature and certainly overweight…
Today in sexism: plain of feature and certainly overweight... Michael Rowe shared this on Facebook with the following comment: “I can’t help but wonder what it would look like if a male author who had...
View ArticleToday in history: Physiognomy and advice for men who wish to “take a wife”
From Vaught’s Practical Character Reader, published in 1902 and revised in 1907, by Emily H. Vaught. There are some wonderful illustrations here (thesocietypages.org) from a book published by Emily H...
View ArticleToday in sexism: five reasons why gendered products are a problem
Boys and doctors; girls are nurses From Sociological Images: Our Pointlessly Gendered Products Pinterest board is funny, no doubt. When people make male and female versions of things like eggs, dog...
View ArticleNUS study: large numbers of students find out about sex from pornography
Almost 30% of university students use pornography as main source of knowledge about sex. A recent survey conducted by the National Union of Students (NUS)* has revealed that almost 30% of university...
View ArticleHandy chart for deciding if you are, or are not, a “slut” (#endslutshaming)
Handy chart for deciding if you are, or are not, a "slut". Here's a handy guide for figuring out if you're a "slut". It could be put to use also by people who habitually think of others as "sluts"...
View Articleone shade of grey
one shade of grey. (c) Tatsuya Ishida (via Object, FB), via Object! Women Not Sex Objects (fb) better. see also: 'Fifty Shades of Grey' targeted by domestic abuse prevention campaign (Washington...
View ArticleGendered language in student reviews of lecturers
Gendered language in student reviews of lecturers This is pretty fascinating. The interactive chart on benschmidt.org allows you explore the words used to describe male and female university lecturers...
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