Tag: women
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: Economics of Gender Inequality, Part 3
III. The Myth of the Broken Glass Ceiling in the Sciences In 2005, Larry Summers suggested that women might not enter scientific fields as often as men because of “innate differences,” according to this article from the Boston Globe. This infuriated the female scientific community, because scientific studies indicate that women don’t enter male-dominated fields [...]
Posted: March 13th, 2009 under economics, economy, gender, gender bias, gender culture, gender differences, gender disparity, gender equality, gender role, gender roles, gender socialization, pay, politics, wage gap, women, women in science, work, working conditions.
Tags: achievement, article, assignments, awards, career, citation, committees, competence, difference, distinctions, economics, economy, equality, experiment, faculty, female, female faculty, flexibility, gender, gender equality, gender roles, glass ceiling, grants, innate differences, journals, lab space, Larry Summers, lead author, male dominated fields, MIT, nature, obama effect, objective measure, pay, performance, progress, publications, rationality, Research, research grants, salary, science, scientific fields, scientific studies, self-perception, sex, sex differences, space, status, studies, study, teaching assignments, wage, wages, women, work, workforce
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Brother, Can You Spare A Dime: Economics of Gender Inequality, Pt.2
II. The Myth of the Feminine Mystique Conservative economists like Chapman argue that women generally have chosen to enter fields that pay less, but that’s another way of saying that we don’t regard female-dominated fields such as teaching, nursing, psychology, and social work as professional domains worthy of significant compensation. These fields are often dismissed [...]
Posted: March 8th, 2009 under discrimination, gender, gender bias, gender differences, gender equality, gender power, gender roles, pay, work.
Tags: American, association, compensation, conservative, construction work, discrimination, economics, economist, economists, female fields, feminine, feminine mystique, gap, gender, inequality, intangibility, intangible, interpersonal, interpersonal skills, job, jobs, mechanics, nursing, pay, paycheck, plumbers, professionals, professions, psychology, sexism, social work, teaching, University, wage, wages, women, workforce
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Geek Chic: One Time for Your Mind
Geek chic is in. Even the New York Times knows it. While in previous years that would mean that it’s already passé, Obama has ushered in a celebration of the passé – both a revival of the cult of the individual and a trumph of sincerity. I know that it’s odd to label the onset [...]
Posted: February 11th, 2009 under Female Sexuality, agency, gender, objectification, politics, sex, sexuality.
Tags: abstinence, cartagena, chic, chick, colombia, couric, dorothy parker, economic crisis, fetish, fey, gay rights, geek, geek chic, geek chick, glasses, hay festival, human rights, impressions, intelligence, jeff richmond, lesbian and gay rights, lesbian rights, machismo, martin amis, mccain, Misogyny, obama, objectification, orgasm, polls, sarah palin, sex, sex education, sexual revolution, sexuality, sexy, suicide, summer of love, Tina Fey, virginity, women
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Onward, Feminist Soldiers: The Battle of . . . Do We Really Want a Battle?
Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under discrimination, female, female empowerment, female leader, feminine energy, femininity, feminism, fight, male worldview, maleness, males, man, masculine systems, masculinity, military, military casualties, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, obama, september, september 11, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, stereotype, stereotypes, terrorism, terrorist, violation, violence, war, war on terror, weapons, women, women in the military, women's liberation, women's movement, women's rights, work, working conditions.
Tags: barack obama, college, community service, congo, Dahomey Amazons, destiny's child, eye of the tiger, fast food, female soldier, feminist, gender, gender blind, gender role, gender stereotype, globalization, hierarchy, inés suarez, infantry, islamic militant, jessica lynch, Joan of Arc, lionesses, masculinity, military, molly pitcher, navy seals, patriarchy, physical strength, pine leaf, power, Qiu Jin, Rani Lakshmibai, rape, sarah palin, self defense, september 11, sex, sexism, sexual dimorphism, sexual power, silver star, special forces, stereotype, strength, survivor, terrorism, test tube babies, violence, war, war on terror, warrior, weakness, women, work, zivildienst
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That's What My Daddy's Made Me: Simian Mobile Disco's "Hustler" Videos
I’ve been listening to the London-based Simian Mobile Disco, a music production team who call themselves “Electro/ Psychadelic/ Alternative” on their Myspace page. They are composed of two guys named James (foreground, left) and claim to sound like “good, old-fashioned, analogue party music” (as their wacky Brit-ball spelling has it). Specifically, I’ve been listening to [...]
Posted: June 19th, 2008 under Female Sexuality, Misogyny, Pornography, Sex Roles, agency, child molestation, female empowerment, feminism, feminist, feminist academics, feminist theory, gender, gender dynamics, gender power, gender roles, gender socialization, gender theory, male gaze, male sexuality, materialism, music, music video, objectification, objectification of women, objectify, patriarchy, politics, porn, power, power structure, prostitute, racism, sex, sex work, sex worker, sexism, shoplifting, subjectivity, subversion, theory.
Tags: abject, alternative, appetite, attack decay sustain release, child molestation, electro, electronica, feminist, girl on girl, honey hooker, hustler, kristeva, larry flynt, lust, male gaze, marx, Misogyny, mulvey, music, music video, myspace, objectify, party music, patriarchy, pink, politics, porn, Pornography, power, prositute, psychadelic, racism, sexism, sexuality, shoplifting, simian mobile disco, subjectivity, theory, video, women
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