Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

Women’s rights face more challenges as a law that sparked international outrage is quietly passed….

Can you prosecute obscene pornography?

Recent case attempting to prosecute obscene fantasy, but what is obscene and how do you prosecute it? FYI there is some graphic and violent description in this article.

Forever Single

Frankly, I’m on the side of ‘deliciously brainy businesswoman’ (argh!) Cindy Gallop

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article6462495.ece

The Practical Feminist?

A Guardian article on the editor of Cosmopolitan. Peronsally I find it hard to understand how you peddle such narrow images of women and believe you are helping the cause….but none the less….

A year on this is reported…

Rapist hid in toilet roof vent

Police want to speak to Adebayo Omokayode Awosabya about the rape
A rapist attacked a woman in a nightclub toilet after jumping down from an air vent in the ceiling.

The 19-year-old victim was attacked in a toilet cubicle at the Amika club in Kensington, west London, last July.

Police believe the attacker had been hiding in an air vent waiting for a woman to use a cubicle.

Detectives want to speak to Adebayo Omokayode Awosabya, 41, who worked as a toilet attendant at the club, in connection with the assault.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said he is also known as Andrew Olasebikan.

He is described as black, about 5ft 6ins tall and of small build.

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate Sarah Haskins

http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/06/story_time_with

Sparkles…

Working in gender and development….

I was already working in gender and development before I started this masters. At the beginning I was tempted to avoid modules that had something to do with my work…I failed at this and I am glad as studying  it has heavily influenced my dissertation subject, brought me a new set of contact, allayed some of my fears and been a lot of fun.

This is not to say that my reservations about working in gender and development don’t still stand…having previously worked in a national women’s organisation, development concerns seemed very high level and removed in comparison. Whether we ever be able to truly justify what we were doing interfering in other countries was also something that played on my mind, not least because of development’s current state which mainly takes the form of economic imperialism (in my view).

Needless to say, this masters has given me a lot of food for thought. One of the issues I most wanted to tackle was the seemingly unbridgeable gap between women’s equality and capitalist economies. Studying gender and development gave me tools to understand this problem in a more nuanced way and gave me hope that there were others out there researching, lobbying and working on this issue.

Subsequent to finishing our lectures, four (if not more?) of current UCL gender studies students have been wring for/are going to work for development organisations. I would like to find out your hopes, fears and reservations to as you enter this extraordinarily complex field of work….

Burlesque….just stripping?

Interesting article from a former burlesque dancer about how it is nothing more than stripping….

 

Do you agree? I am inclined to. The performances i have seen previous have only made me slightly uncomfortable watching the men around me oogling…it didn’t feel liberating in the slightest.

I dont even read the DailyMail but…

Some how the articles push their way in front of my eyes on the internet so here are the latest batch

So first up is the women who admits she loves her husband more than her kids  she loves her kids but if one dies she could get over it, on the other hand she couldn’t imagine life without her husband… Interesting

Next up is the bridget jones author telling us that  girls cant have it all… yes after making £20 mill from writing  about girls not having it all

Last up is my favorite, women who dont have babies lack ‘essential humanity’ apparently bosses and employers prefer to empoly mothers because they dont go out patying and any problem in the office is a doddle compared to child emergencies…. so women have to give birth to be human….

I think the daily mail is mental and amazing…  i might start a daily mail watch…

something i found

I found this thing about how women doctors undermine medicine it was only writtian in 2004 ….in the daily mail which may explain a lot….. its like some things chnage but some things stay the same..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-312960/Feminists-howl-professor-right-increase-women-doctors-does-undermine-medicine.html

Yay on all the blogging!!