Articles from December 2008
Comments from November 2008
Comments received during November
Jess McCabe // 28 December 2008
Categories: Comments
'Hasn't anybody ever told you a handful is enough?'
Boys groped her, men shouted at her on the street, and girls and women reacted with hostility. Samara Ginsberg reports on growing up with large breasts
Samara Ginsberg // 14 December 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Violence
Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness / Raciality
debi withers reviews a collection on the intersection of race and queer politics, which slips between first-person narratives, manifestos and academic tracts
debi withers // 14 December 2008
Categories: Books
Cunning Stunts: women's theatre in the 1970s and '80s
The Unfinished Histories CD provides a tantalising window into the history of women's theatre troupes, says Red Chidgey
Red Chidgey // 8 December 2008
Categories: Spoken Word
Time to end parental leave discrimination
Jennifer Gray argues that parental leave laws must become more flexible
Jennifer Gray // 8 December 2008
Categories: Family, Stereotypes, Work and Play
Now That's What I Call Misogyny!
Molly Lavender is exasperated at gender segregation in music – and the way pop songs valorise abusive relationships
Molly Lavender // 4 December 2008
Categories: Culture and Media, Sex and Relationships, Stereotypes, Violence
Why feminists shouldn't have to keep mum
A feminist challenge to sexism within the current cult of motherhood is needed, argues Victoria Dutchman-Smith
Victoria Dutchman-Smith // 4 December 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Family, Feminism, Work and Play
Choice and disability
Are feminist pro-choice politics on selective abortions sidelining the concern of disabled people? Victoria Al-Sharqi argues the case
Victoria Al-Sharqi // 1 December 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Feminism
