Archive for 'college'
Miss Landmine Angola, 2008: The Right to Beauty & Agency
Hat tip to Broadsheet for this inspiring story of how Nordic artist Morten Traavik uses beauty pageants to subvert modern standards of beauty. In a country where 23 years of civil war has left 80,000 people disabled, Angolan society objectifies survivors of violence as passive victims and dismisses them as useless to society. Although the inclusion [...]
Posted: November 20th, 2007 under 2008, Kathleen Palmer, active, american apparel, angola, antioch, awareness, beauty, beauty pageant, candidate, civil war, college, cultural cooperation, disabled, empowerment, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, gender role, grammar, gun, hookup, international women's day, landmine, landmines, manifesto, miss landmine, morten traavik, objectification, orthopedic, passive, physical perfection, pride, rape, sex, sex lives, sexuality, survivor, victim, violence, vote, women.
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I Was A Teenage Feminist…
Last semester, I reluctantly acknowledged that I was not a biology major. I did this after I had long ceased taking classes in the biology department that were required for the major and didn’t pique my interest. I didn’t think of myself as a non-Bio major, but I didn’t think of myself as a non-non [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2007 under Angier, E-Z Bake Oven, Natalie, National Institutes of Health, Woman: An Intimate Geography, biology, chemical, college, default, department, discrimination, education, english, equality, evolutionary, female, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender equality, genetic, genetics, hormone, institution, interdisciplinary, major, male, objective, objectivity, old boys, organismic, professor, reproduction, reproductive system, sociobiologists, sociobiology, sociology, student, syllabus, testes, women's health, zygote.
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You Had Me At Hello: Sex, Power, Rape.
In castellano, as residents of Buenos Aires, who call themselves porteños, call their native language, there are about a hundred ways to say hello. ¿Qué onda, buey? which translates literally as “what wave, ox?”, and more figuratively as “what’s the vibe, dude?” is the friendliest of the bunch, and a common choice among the hip [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2007 under Argentina, Argentine, Buenos Aires, God, Juncal, Nixon, administration, bar, buey, campus, cardboard, castellano, college, country, dinner, dragon, english, feminism, gender, greetings, happening, hello, hoodlum, interview, kathleen barry, language, latin america, manners, martial arts, night, party, physical power, physical threat, porteno, power, provecho, que onda, que pasa, que tal, rape, respect, restaurant, retail, safety, semantics, sex, sexual assault, shag carpet, slang, sociology, spanish, street, syntax, threat, villa, walking alone at night, wealth disparity, weapons, what.
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Let's Talk About . . . Euphemisms
Right. So recently, my eighteen-year old little brother left home on his first major excursion without adult supervision. I was talking about this trip with my momma, and she asked me if I would be willing to give my bro the sex talk and drop him some condoms. Of course, I was totally cool with [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2007 under 30 Rock, Girls Gone Wild, Penn State, Self Objectification, Tina Fey, bimbo, birth control, bodies, catcall, college, condom, feminism, harrassment, menstruation, naked, objectification, period, pop culture, religion, secretary, sex, sex education, sex positive, sex positivity, sexual harrassment, sexuality, shame, sleaze, stereotype, the sex talk, womanhood.
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Carrie On: Sex and the College Sex Column
College is a place where people talk about sex. Most have sex, too, of course, but everyone talks about it: sex in general, their friends’ sex, the sex presumably causing the moaning that they can hear through the flimsy wall. The talk about sex is sometimes writing about sex. After Sarah Jessica Parker’s portrayal of [...]
Posted: June 1st, 2007 under abs, adolescence, agency, blogging, bodies, casual sex, college, cross-dressing, jack rabbits, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm, sex.
Tags: abs, adolescence, Adonis, agency, blogging, bodies, bondage, Carrie Bradshaw, casual sex, college, column, Cornell, Cornell Sun, Cornellingus, crossdressing, Harvard, Heather Grantham, jack rabbits, Lena Chen, Manolo Blahnik, masturbation, oral sex, orgasm, Sarah Jessica Parker, sex, Sex and the City, Sex and the Ivy, sex columnist, slut, vibrator
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I’m Not a Manhater; I Just Dream a Lot
I recently conducted a series of interviews for a sociology project here at my college. I surveyed my female peers’ ideas about their perceptions of the likelihood of rape, and, as an afterthought, their views on feminism. Over and over, I heard, “Well, I think of myself as a feminist in the sense that I [...]
Posted: May 19th, 2007 under 50 ft Woman, Attack, Big Pun, Civil Rights, Declaration of Independence, Dr. Martin Luther King, GDP, I have a dream, Man Hater, Manhater, Misogyny, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Thomas Jefferson, Women and Gender Studies, abuse, agency, bitch, college, economics, feminism, gender, homophobia, interview, jr., masculinity, masculinity crisis, men, racism, rape, slaves, sociology, stay at home dads, working moms.
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College Sex Magazines and the Photographer as Subject
Stripping to pay for college is fairly common these days, leading some to question where the power lies in the profession in today’s sex-positive atmosphere: with the customer or the stripper? Across the East Coast, students at colleges and universities have been breaking into another sexy industry: pornography. In this article from the New York [...]
Posted: May 12th, 2007 under Boink, Boston University, H-Bomb, Harvard, Howard Stern, New York Times, Outlet, Playboy, Pornography, SWAY, Self Objectification, Squirm, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Vita Excolatur, college, erotica, francesca woodman, playful nudity, porn, social class, stripping, suicide, the gaze, violence against women.
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