Archive for 'Female Sexuality'
'It's Not Rape if She Blinks Twice for Yes' and Other Phallacies of Rape Culture
The New York Times recently reported that yet another rapist is being let off of the hook – as the majority are. Nearly 95% of men standing trial for rape in the United States and the United Kingdom are cleared of all charges, which is a shocking number considering the social, personal and political consequences [...]
Posted: May 11th, 2008 under Attack, Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Research, Sex Roles, alcohol, chauvinism, chauvinist, consent, constitution, constitutional, court, cultural bias, cultural criticism, culture, definitions, degradation, democracy, discrimination, disempowerment, disrespect, domestic violence, equality, exploitation, exploitative, feminine, femininity, feminism, feminist, feminist theory, feminists, fuck, fucking, gang rape, gender, gender culture, gender disparity, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, gender violence, genitalia, genitals, government, human dignity, human rights, humanism, humanist, humanity, identity politics, inequality, injury, injustice, institution, intercourse, international women's day, justice, legal, legal definition, male perspective, male sexuality, maleness, males, masculine systems, men, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, morality, object, objectification, objectification of women, partner abuse, partner violence, physical power, pop culture, popular culture, power, power dynamic, power structure, propaganda, punishable offense, rape, rape case, rape culture, rape trial, rape victim, rapist, rapper, respect, science, science and gender, self image, self-esteem, sex, sex object, sex partner, sex research, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual activity, sexual advance, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual exploitation, sexual inequality, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexual relations, sexual subordination, sexual violence, sexuality, social class, social inequality, socialization, society, survivor, vagina, violation, violence, violence against women, women, women's health, women's liberation, women's rights, women's studies.
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Oxford Prodigy Now A Hooker…
Yep. Check Amherstdam for the details from the Daily Mail while I groan at my thesis.
Posted: March 31st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, exploitation, hooker, lonely, oxford, prodigy, prostitute, prostitution, sex, sexuality.
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Midwifery: Keeping Ya' Mama From Getting Cut For 5 Million Years
Don’t get me wrong. I love electronic culture. It gives me access to everyone else who has access to it, which is a lot of people. But it’s not everyone. And because of the necessarily exclusive nature of it, what gets lost is the full community experience. This is, for many, a digital age, and [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2008 under Female Sexuality, adaptiveness, anthropology, assisted birth, barack, biological anthropology, bipedalism, birth, birthing, brain, culture, digital, electronic, eminence, environment, episiotomy, evolution, evolutionary, female, fetal skull, isolation, labor, mammal, maternal, medical anthropology, midwife, midwifery, modernity, obama, pelvis, pregnancy, primate, sexuality, skull, surgery, tribe, vaginal cutting.
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Sarah Silverman is Fucking Matt Damon… the song.
Sarah Silverman strikes again, with some much needed sex-positivity. Need I say more? Video
Posted: February 4th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, Matt Damon, Sarah Silverman, fuck, jimmy kimmel, sex, sex positive, sex positivity, sexuality.
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Feminism Lives: Isabel Allende and Global Women's Rights
In need of a little new year’s inspiration? Broadsheet “recommends novelist Isabel Allende’s poignant and hilarious talk on passion, writing, beauty and feminism given in Monterey, Calif., at the TED conference last year in March. (It was just posted on the TED site in January 2008.)””It’s moving,” writes Broadsheet’s Katharine Mieszkowski, “to watch Allende exhort [...]
Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, TED conference, Uncategorized, Wangaari Mathai, abu ghraib, abuse, balance, beauty, celebrity, domestic violence, fame, female empowerment, feminine energy, feminism, feminist, flag, gender, global, hope, human rights, isabel allende, loren, olympics, passion, patriarchy, power, sofia, sophia loren, taxes, violence, writing.
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From Vagina Rock to Cootchie-Coo: Ani Difranco, Hip Mama, Has Baby.
Ok, I know she’s a controversial figure. I mean, she sings about pussy stridently. We might not be able to handle that around here. But these days, Ani Di’s also been preparing to
Posted: January 4th, 2008 under 50 ft Woman, Ani Difranco, Female Sexuality, acceptance, alternative, alternative & punk, anger, ani, artist, attack of the 50ft woman, baby, barack, birthday, canon, cd, dammit!, daughter, experimental jazz, exploitation, itunes, love, lyric, lyricism\, mike napolitano, mother, motherhood, music, musician, obama, petah lucia, poetry, pop music, popular music, power, punk, real love, record company, record industry, righteous babe, september 11, slideshow, tour, vanilla weiss, vote.
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A Vindication of the Rights of Sex Bloggers
So Lena Chen. Here’s a refresher course. She’s a sexblogger from Harvard who tells stories about her sexploits, with strategically placed psuedonyms and (presumably) enough privacy to retain her sanity and, oh yeah, sell some advertising. Recently, some trouble was roused when her vindictive ex published naked pictures of her on the internet, thus ruining [...]
Posted: December 23rd, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Harvard, Self Objectification, Sex and the City, Sex and the Ivy, agency, anonymous, bliss, blog, casual, chen, comparative sexuality, consent, ethical, ethics, ignorance, ivy, ivy league, ivygate, lena, lewd, male sexuality, meta, moral relativism, morality, morals, naked, nude, nudie, nudity, objectification, orgasm, original sin, phone sex, photographs, photos, pictures, prostitute, prostitution, purity, rape, sex, sex positive, sex positivity, sexblog, sexblogging, sexism, sexual morality, sexual morals, sexuality, sin, slut, tawdry.
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