Tag: gender
On Freedom Fries, Strauss-Kahn and “French Standards”
France has long been aligned with romance in the American imagination, but recent events have got me going all Public Enemy on that ish: Don’t Believe the Hype. It all centers on the discussions of the behavior of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the chief of the International Monetary Fund currently sitting in Riker’s Island without bail awaiting [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2011 under Uncategorized.
Tags: abc, affairs, anglo-saxon culture, crime, dominique, don't believe the hype, equity, france, french standards, gender, germany, imf, international monetary fund, obesity, public enemy, rape, rape culture, riker's island, sarkozy, seduction, sexual assault, strauss-kahn, womanising, womanizing, women's rights
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Links for 12/06/10
Hello lovelies! I’m still hard at work on applications. But here are some links for you in the meantime! Over at Sociological Images, Marissa explores the implications of representing sex on bathroom signs for our understanding of sex and gender. At AmplifyYourVoice, actual abstinence-only curricula meets animated bears. The New York Times reports on the [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2010 under class, gender, gender culture, homophobia, human rights, politics, sex, sexuality, transgender.
Tags: abstinence, abstinence-only education, bathroom doors, classism, daily show, don't ask don't tell, Gay, gay teens, gender, gender performativity, homophobia, ilusha tsinadze, it gets better, jon stewart, krugman, maternity leave, mccain, republic of georgia, rights, sex, social security, sociology, the senate, transgender
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Reviving Ophelia: GirlDrive and Feminists for Obama
Hello lovely revolutionaries! Welcome to 2010! ObjectifyThis has recently relocated to New York, delaying posts on this blog in favor of searches for shelter, income, and long-lost friends. However, I’ll be sure to get back atcha as soon as my schedule allows. I look forward to any semblance of monotony, believe me. In the meantime, [...]
Posted: January 11th, 2010 under New York Review of Books, art, clinton, femininity, feminism, obama.
Tags: anne kornblut, balkans, barack, clinton, Columbine, emma bee bernstein, female, femininity, feminism, francesca woodman, gender, geraldine ferraro, hillary, identity, identity politics, interview, journalism, lynyrd skynyrd, nona ellis aronowitz, NPR, obama, photography, politicians, power, presidential election, racism, road trip, romance, sex, suicide, the onion, tom ashbrook
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Liberty, Stand Up to Stupak!
Last week, the long-awaited passage of health care reform came at a hefty cost. Bart Stupak’s amendment to HR 3962 prevents women receiving federal subsidies from buying health insurance that covers abortion. This attack on the reproductive rights of poor Americans may have dire repercussions for women and society, and that may be what the [...]
Posted: November 16th, 2009 under agency, gender, gender culture, hostile environment, politics, rape, social class, socialization, society, socioeconomics.
Tags: abortion, bill, burt stupak, child care, christian right, conception, contraception, crime, Declaration of Independence, federal subsidies, fetus, fetuses, gender, gender power, happiness, harassment, health care, hostile environment, HR 3962, incest, injustice, justice, liberty, miscarriages, national right to life committee, nutrition, power, pregnancy, pro life, rape, reform, right to life, sex, sex education, sexual assault, sexual partner, smoking, social class, social power, socioeconomic class, state, std, stereotype, stereotype threat, title IX, wage inequality, welfare
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Congratulations, Professor Kristin Bumiller!
The formidable mind of my mentor Kristin Bumiller always deserves mention. Luckily, the American Political Science Association agrees with me. Bumiller’s excellent book, In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriate the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence, won the APSA’s 2009 Victoria Shuck Award for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under book, policy, politics, power, power structure, sexual inequality, sexual violence, state.
Tags: abuse, award, book, book review, boundaries, central park jogger, criminalization, domestic assault, empirical analysis, exclusion, feminism, gender, government, identity politics, inequality, kristin bumiller, marginalization, neoliberalism, o.j. simpson, polarization, policy, political science, politics, postfeminist, power, race, rape, rape trial, rape trials, rights, scholarship, sexual violence, social control, state, strategy, surveillance, trauma, violence against women, women
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Lady Justice: "They've Never Been a 13-Year old Girl."
The case Redding vs. Safford Unified School District #1 was decided by the Supreme Court this week. The 8-to-1 decision was awarded to Savana Redding, who as 13-year old girl, was strip-searched by school officials when she was suspected of carrying prescription-strength ibuprofen to school, each of which would have had the strength of two [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, Supreme Court, drugs, gender, human dignity, human rights, objectification, politics, student.
Tags: dangerous, delerious, fear, gender, hazing, justice, men, objectification, pills, rape, ruth bader ginsburg, savana redding, school, strip-search, Supreme Court, violation, women
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Economics of Gender Inequality, Pt. IV
IV. Inflexibility of Gender/Pay Relationship Transgender pay differences reflect gender pay differences. Last October, Andrew Sullivan pointed to research that “found that women who become men (known as FTMs) do significantly better than men who become women (MTFs). MTFs in the study earned, on average, 32% less after they transitioned from male to female, even [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2009 under Congress, Freud, crisis, cross-dressing, discrimination, disempowerment, economics, economy, feminism, feminist, gender, gender bias, gender differences, gender dynamics, gender equality, gender power, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, legislation, politics, taboo.
Tags: abigail adams, african-american, aid legislation, anthropology, Baltimore, biological gender, body modification, california, castration, childhood, david harvey, difference, discrimination, economic analysis, education, female circumcision, feminism, feminists, financial crisis, financial loss, flipping, founding father, Freud, FTM, gender, gender bias, gender difference, gender equality, gender roles, genital cutting, geography, home ownership, identity, identity politics, income, john quincy adams, katrina, layoffs, legislation, lesbian, low-income, Manhater, median, mortgage, MTF, n+1, pay, policy, senate compromise, single mothers, socialization, speculation, study, taboo, taboos, transition, wages
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