Articles from February 2006
Challenging The 'Sex Sells' Cliche
Everywhere you turn these days there are sexualised images of women's bodies as porn becomes more and more mainsteam. Rachel Bell investigates the growing protest movement against the normalisation of porn in everyday life.
Rachel Bell // 12 February 2006
Categories: Culture and Media
Pretending That Men Aren't Grown-Ups
Ellery takes issue with a Times article entitled "Pretending That Women Aren't Grown-Ups", which said that women should change their behaviour to prevent being raped. Ellery argues that that expecting women to take responsibility for rapists' actions is a double standard which sees men as irrational brutes and rape as a fact of life.
Ellery // 12 February 2006
Make Me Perfect
Helen Reeves is shocked at Make Me Perfect: a programme that encourages women with low self esteem to comply with mainstream sexist views on beauty rather than question them.
Helen Reeves // 11 February 2006
Categories: Television
Deconstructing Masculinity
Sheryl Plant argues that masculinity needs to be questioned and critiqued just as much as the concept of femininity; only then can male violence be fully addressed.
Sheryl Plant // 11 February 2006
Categories: Men
Comments from February 2006
Comments received during February 2006.
Catherine Redfern // 2 February 2006
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