Archive for 'theory'
Bleeding-Heart Naturalism: Renewing Discussion of The Pill
So recently, my friend Rishi threw me some great articles about the Pill and the evolutionary context of menstruation (thanks, Rish!). The first is a long but intriguing article from the New Yorker detailing the history of the discovery that women, in general, did not have as many periods in pre-industrial society as they do [...]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under ABC News, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Lybrel, Monty Python, New Yorker, Renaissance, Sex Roles, Slate.com, Women and Gender Studies, bleeding, bodies, breast cancer, conservative, contraceptive, cramps, environment of evolutionary adaptiveness, erection, evolution, evolutionary theory, gender roles, homosexuality, incontinence, men, menarche, menstrual period, menstruation, migraines, mood swings, natural selection, nausea, ovarian cancer, ovulation, period, psychology, respect, self defense, the pill, theory, uterine cancer, wet dream, women's health.
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Rational Woman/My Philosophy by KRS-ONE: Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody
There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -Albert Ellis (Ironic Curtsy: Irrational Woman) In her essay “Sexual Difference and the Problem of Essentialism,” Elizabeth Grosz writes of the problematic implication of “patriarchal frameworks, methods, and presumptions” in contemporary feminist theory and rhetoric.
Posted: June 11th, 2007 under Alan Greenspan, Albert Einstein, Elizabeth Grosz, Emile Durkheim, KRS-ONE, Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everybody, My Philosophy, Paris Hilton, Randall Collins, Sex Roles, Smurfette, agency, biologism, biology, bodies, economics, emotion, femininity, feminism, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender bias, gender roles, identity, irrationality, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, rationality, reason, sex, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, society, sociology, theory, trust.
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Navel Gazing
Okay, so there’s this issue that I haven’t exactly addressed yet, and it occured to me while I was reading a comment on Alas!’ post How I Became a Feminist. This comment, by Kate L., says, “does anyone who knows Jessica [Valenti, whose book, Full Frontal Feminism, is being discussed] anywhere that I can find [...]
Posted: May 17th, 2007 under Janet Jackson, Lindsay Lohan, Misogyny, Paris Hilton, R&B, blogging, exploitation, feminism, marketing, objectification, photography, psychology, stripping, subversion, the gaze, the pose, theory, wardrobe malfunction.
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thin women:strong men as object:subject?
In this article, “Thin, Sexy Women and Strong, Muscular Men” published in the November 2003 issue of Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Sarah K. Murnen and her colleagues discuss the effects of rising discrepancies between images of women presented by the media and the size body of the average American woman. Body dissatisfaction is [...]
Posted: May 4th, 2007 under Barbie, Brody Jenner, CosmoGirl, Female Sexuality, Full-Figuring, Guerilla Girls, Ken, Kenneth B Clark, Kiri Davis, Misogyny, Murnen, Nicole Richie, Sarah K, Self Objectification, Sex Roles, doll, doll experiments, exploitation, human dignity, objectification, racism, stigmatization, theory.
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