Gender Issues Digest – Edition 42 April 29, 2007
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Welcome to another bumper edition of Gender Issues Digest – this one covering notable Gender Issues news in March and April. Regular readers may have noticed that we have been off our normal 2-week cycle for the past 3 months and we plead guilty as charged thanks to a hectic work and travel schedule. As things settle down, we will hopefully be back to our normal routine sooner rather than later.
If time is short on your end as well, here are some recommended reads in this issue:
- Emmeline Pankhurst‘s infamous 1913 speech, arguably the speech that gave birth to Western feminism. Read the whole speech in 3 parts or get the gist from the edited version. Pankhurst was one of the leaders of the suffragette movement.
- Get an update on the issue of abortion in the USA, UK and Mexico under a variety of articles in that section. Particularly relevant for the USA case is the law article on the woman-protective legislation.
- The obituary of Mary Crisp provides a well-drawn portrait of a courageous Republican woman who went up against her own party for her belief in the woman’s right to choose.
- A Muslim woman finds that she is discriminated against for her choice of swimwear in Oxford as opposed to the American South.
Happy reading and discussing!
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Interviews, Profiles and Obituaries
Interview: Andrea Madarassy – The woman leading the fight for working mothers
Interview: Ann Sophie Pic – First female Michelin 3-star chef in France for 50 years
Interview: Camellia Panjabi – Indian entrepreneur and owner of food empire
Interview: Leslie Bennetts – Author and U.S. advocate for working mothers
Interview: A.M. Homes – Writer
Interview: “It’s okay to be dark”, Madeleine Peyroux – contemporary interpretive jazz-blues singer
Interview: “Now we’ve got a backlash”, Meera Syal – British Asian comedian and writer
Interview: Sophie Ellis Baxtor – British pop diva
Interview: Katharine Hamnett – Green British fashion designer
Interview: Tyra Banks, supermodel, on weight, body image and the media
Interview: Segolene Royal – potential next President of France
Interview: Julie Christie – Actress and 60s icon
Profile: Barbara Stanwyck – late American actress
Profile: Daphne Du Maurier – late novelist
Profile: ‘Ask me anything!’ – Beth Ditto on her new fortnightly agony aunt column
Obituary: Mary Crisp – GOP official rebuked by Reagan over her views on abortion, aged 83
Obituary: Dakota Staton – charismatic jazz vocalist known for her ‘blues ballads’, aged 76
Obituary: Juanita Millender-McDonald – who represented California in House, aged 68
Special focus: Emmeline Pankhurst, a mother of women’s rights
Issue: The State of Gender Politics Today
The liberation of the sexes from their pink and blue fates have hardly begun
Up the revolution! Why there are so many good reasons to be a modern feminist
We’ve never had it so good – does Generation Y’s women’s lives really live up to the hype?
Who says middle age is a crisis for men?
The significance of the boy-girl ratio in British schools today
Why a woman’s place is in the kitchen
Issue: Women, Work and Achievement
After adopting term limits, states lose female legislators
Beauty before age – on rising star in photography, Alex Prager
Why men can’t manage women and why women in their 30s are increasingly striking out on their own
A new breed of ‘olderpreneurs’ – women striking out on their own after retirement
City trader says bank’s culture of sexism forced her out of job
When will we stop penalising working mothers?
Mothers face job discrimination, according to report
Tesco joins job share scheme to help women
Computer science takes steps to bring women into the fold
Failure for these women could haunt a generation of politicians
In praise of… women in business
Ladies who lug – female band managers and roadies
Menstruation question outrages India’s female professionals
Wellesley class sees ‘one of us’ bearing standard
When women lost the lead in the film industry
Why Fergie and Heather Mills have been reborn in the USA
Clinton gladly plays the gender card
BBC Dragon: I wouldn’t hire fat people
Issue: Violence against Women
Huntley sex victim wins damages
Japanese businessman acquitted over Blackman’s murder
How the web became a sexist’s paradise
A call for manners in the world of nasty blogs
Japan’s ‘atonement’ to former sex slaves stirs anger
‘They keep on killing and killing’ – the killing of women and girls in Guatamala
‘The abuse wasn’t about sex. It was about control’
Pope ‘did not help girls abused by Florence priest’
Polygamous Nigerian lesbians flee Sharia
Dangers for women travelling solo
Teenage victim of asylum scandal faces deportation
Issue: The Politics of Contraception, Abortion and Reproduction
Mexico City legalises abortion early in term
Vote could end Mexico’s abortion subculture
Abortion doesn’t boost breast cancer risk according to large-scale long-term study
U.S. Supreme Court upholds ban on abortion procedure
The new politics of abortion: An equality analysis of woman-protective abortion restrictions
Abortions ‘crisis’ threatens Britain’s NHS
‘Intolerant’ doctors blamed for looming abortion crisis
Nurses ‘could perform abortions’
Delay in detecting pregnancy blamed for many late abortions in the UK
‘I knew where I stood on abortion. But I had to rethink.’
Spitzer pushing bill to shore up abortion rights in New York state
Bush’s US$1bln ‘Don’t have sex’ campaign a flop
Pill that eliminates period gets mixed reviews
Perfect timing – can natural family planning work?
Woman loses final embryo appeal
Women face rationing of fertility treatment in UK
Issue: Gender and Health
A new plan to combat obesity in UK schoolgirls
Building strong bones in the womb
Device offers hope in cutting stillbirth rates
Mothers miss a ‘friend’ as health visitors decline
Red meat ups breast cancer risk
HRT linked to 1000 deaths from cancer
Breast cancer rates fell after hormone treatments declined
Texas legislators block shots for girls against cancer virus
Issue: Gender and Sexuality
Seeking the keys to sexual desire
Pas de deux of sexuality is written in the genes
Sex theme park to open in London
Everything you need for an all-night party
Issue: Modern dating, marriage and relationships
A ‘First Spouse’ in France? Not any time soon.
Giving new meaning to ‘whirlwind courtship’
Hey! You’re breaking up on me!
Why is it no longer acceptable for a woman to say her greatest aspiration is to fall in love?
Would you buy a date from a cad?
In a crowded online field, it’s more than a pet project
Romantic revulsion in the new century – Flaw-o-matic 2.0
The perils of dating with family in tow
Chinese slough off old barriers to divorce
Issue: The state of the modern family
One-parent families on the rise in the UK
Bee Lavender on having a child at 18
The women laughed as they forced toddlers to fight
Numbers drop for the Married-with-Children
Issue: Gender, Fashion, Beauty and Self-Image
A touch of the oh-la-la – how French women look after themselves
Age-old rules – how to grow old gracefully in dressing
‘How do I look?’ – Cilla Black, British Singer and TV presenter, age 67
Nancy Pelosi, respectfully maintaining her own image
Time to put an end to skinny-bashing
Top surgeons offer budget breast ops
In apparel, all tariffs aren’t created equal
Miscellaneous
‘China women town’ to be built
Women in basketball team unsure if they will accept Imus’s apology
International Women’s Day: The Telegraph, Calcutta April 29, 2007
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Editor’s note: The appearance of this posting below by Somak has been long-delayed due to my own busy schedule. Do accept my apologies and enjoy the read!
The Telegraph, Calcutta, did a special oped page on the International Women’s Day, on March 8. In order to bypass the platitudes, we had put to three important Indian women one question: What has it been like to inhabit a women’s body? Their responses were supplemented by a short extract (in translation) from an all-time favourite work by one of the pre-eminent Bengali women writers, Leela Mazumdar, who turned 100 this year. I am pasting the link to the web version of this page below. Hope you’ll enjoy reading it.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070308/asp/opinion/story_7484392.asp
Eating Habits Survey March 10, 2007
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Via a listserve:
We’re investigating self perceptions and eating habits in men and women. The study is part of a joint Oxford Uni and Brookes student project, and we are seeking men and women to complete an on line survey.
It’s interesting to do, and doesn’t take too much time. The study can be found at:
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/social/psych/research/eatinghabits.html
The study does have ethical approval from both Universities.
For any inquiries, contact:
Myra Cooper
Oxford Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology
University of Oxford
Warneford Hospital
Oxford OX3 7JX
email: myra.cooper@hmc.ox.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0) 1865 226431
fax:+44 (0) 1865 226364
Free Gender and Development journal articles for download March 10, 2007
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Via a Gender Issues Digest reader in Oxford:
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Oxfam Great Britain is pleased to announce that selected articles from our two journals are freely available for download until 31 March 2007.
These include articles from the journal Gender & Development on climate change, and also articles on ending impunity for violence against women and girls from Development in Practice.
Also featured are examples of Oxfam’s publications on Gender and Diversity, as well as a link to the We Can coalition campaign pages on the Oxfam GB website which includes short video clips.
For access to these resources, please click on the link below. Please feel free to forward this offer onto your colleagues in other organisations.
Happy International Women’s Day March 8, 2007
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To the women reading this blog – go celebrate the fact that you’ve been born a woman. Too few of us remember to do that.
And, if you can, don’t forget to give something back today in the name of women’s causes.
Gender Issues Digest – Edition 41 (Bumper Edition) February 28, 2007
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Interviews, Profiles and Obituaries
Interview: Taking the fight to Islam – Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Activist
Interview: Live to tell – Arundhati Roy, award-winning Indian novelist and activist
Interview: Solving puzzles in the hills – Jane Smiley, award-winning American novelist
Interview: Seeing with sound – Aquanetta Gordon, mother who raised blind son to ‘see’ with sound
Interview: He’s the Bond Girl, not me – Eva Green, Actress
Interview: An act of defiance – Amelia Warner, Actress
Interview: A woman of character – Emily Watson, Actress
Interview: Fat is a fashionable issue – Diane von Furstenburg, fashion designer
Profile: For phobia to fame: a Southern cook’s memoir – Paul Deen, American food personality
Profile: In step with what women want – Tamara Mellon, president of the Jimmy Choo empire
Profile: The new Oprah? – Arianna Huffington, American Political commentator
Profile: Her subject, and maturity, go way beyond her years – Sarah Polley, Actress
Profile: A very modern muse – Colleen McLoughlin
Obituary: Adelaide Tambo, South African activist who fought apartheid – died age 77
Obituary: Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada – died age 85
Obituary: Molly Ivins shook the walls with her clarion call – died age 62
Obituary: R. Silberman, her group opposed tide of feminism – died age 69
Obituary: Anna Nicole Smith, headline-generating model and actress – died age 39
Opinion and Review
Barbara Ellen: Selective amnesia
Oliver James: Blind feminism has hurt our children
Paul McInnes: Tied up in knots
Zoe Williams: You are vain and stupid
Liz Sheppard-Jones: Women can worry about their weight and be intelligent too
India Knight: It’s not unfeminist to go on a diet
Betty Clark: How I clipped the Dixie Chicks’ wings
Joanna Moorhead: Just say no to cooking
Issue: The State of Modern Feminism
Were those the days, my friends?
Cosmo at 35 – still sexy and campaigning but is it still cutting edge?
Girl Guides see a future lighted by sex bias and pressure to be thin
Sorority evictions raise issue of looks and bias
Why is rape so easy to get away with?
Issue: Women, Work and Achievement
Flat tire? Looks like a job for Nigeria’s ‘lady mechanics’
Mothers face job discrimination
Lawyers split on Linda Singer’s fitness for office
Leaders of the pack – the genesis of all-girl bands
Issue: Women in Politics
Mom is at home in the House, Senate
Issue: Women in Islamic Countries
Afghan women’s quiet revolution hangs by a thread
Islam’s pioneering women priests
Issue: The State of Modern Relationships
Dinner, movie… and a background check
The truth about (not so) Smug Marrieds
Observer panel: Can you flirt and still be a good spouse?
Do you think I’m sexy? – On the Older Woman-Younger Man pairing
It is a truth universally acknowledged that I must be in want of a wife. Well get this – I’M NOT!
Korean men use brokers to find wives in Vietnam
We’re having a special relationship – transatlantic marriages
Men are the poor relations with housework
Movie stars plus marriage equals disaster
Issue: The Politics of Reproduction, Contraception and Abortion
Is the right to abortion under threat?
Girl or boy? As fertility technology advances, so does an ethical debate
Male biological clock – It seems the fertility clock ticks for men too
New mom, 67, lied to L.A. fertility clinic
Women will be paid to donate eggs for science
Sex, lies and the Morning-after pill
America’s abortion battlefield
Portugal votes to end abortion ban
The doctor said to me: ‘Couldn’t you just go through with the pregnancy?’
Indian government to raise abandoned girls
Issue: Gender and Alternative Sexualities
Gay bishop says no to ultimatum
Gay Jews connect their experience to story of Purim
Anglicans head for deadlock in talks to avoid schism over gay blessings
Catholic threat on gay rights law
University to ban gay marriages on campus
Issue: Gender and Health
‘I was entirely alone’ – Tom Dodds on his anorexia and anorexia in men
Anna Carolina Reston – the model who starved herself to death
Sister of tragic ‘size zero’ model found dead
Taking a bite out of eating disorders
Hard to swallow – comment piece on anorexia and the fashion industry
Too much, too young – on eating disorders in children
Expectant mums getting ‘too fat’
Hong Kong’s draw for pregnant Chinese
Down Syndrome screenng recommended for all expectant mums
Separated at birth – on post-natal disorders
Gay men seek ‘female’ cancer jab
Male jab to reduce cervical cancer
Most men unhappy with penis ops
Uncircumcised pupils sent home
Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men
Issue: Gender, Family and Parenthood
Marriage policies not the cure
Historic ruling for adoption employee
Is multi-dadding the future of parenting?
Issue: Gender, Beauty and Fashion
The bloody pursuit of perfection
And thanks to my agent, my skin doctor…
How I learned to love my hairy bits
Miscellaneous
Second World War ‘sex slaves’ to testify before Congress
Russell Crowe dumps cheerleaders
The 50 men who really understand women
Pole dancing parties catch on in book club country
Gender Issues Digest – Issue 40 January 14, 2007
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Interviews, Profiles and Obituaries
Interview: A woman of character – Emily Watson
Interview: I’m no baby-snatcher – Marie Golby
Interview: Take a girl like you – Billie Piper
Interview: The funniest woman you never heard of – Sharon Horgan
Interview: Illicit passions and a walk on the red carpet
Interview: Not everybody loves Patricia – Patricia Heaton
Profile: BBC Faces of the year – women
Profile: Sister sleuths seek heirloom recipes
Profile: Bio-hazard – Nadine Gordimer
Women and Achievement
The year of leading ladies on the London stage
Backstory: Their place is in their kitchen
Headhunters at Harvard may pick a woman
From thong to thesis: Monica Lewinsky flashes her intellect
Issue: Gender and Alternative Sexualities
Indian athlete fails gender test
Massachusetts considers gay marriage ban
Issue: The politics of Conception, Reproduction and Abortion
High-fertility drugs put mothers and daughters at risk
Imagine a country where you can get 30 years just for an abortion…
Issue: Gender and Health
Down Syndrome screening recommended for all expectant moms
Issue: Women, Body Image and the Politics of Size
Is skinny going out of fashion?
Here’s to a well-rounded new year
Warning over pro-anorexia sites
As obesity fight hits cafeteria, many fear a note from school
Issues: Modern Feminism
The truth about female stereotypes
Liberté, egalité, fraternité – but less so for women
Issue: The state of modern relationships
It will be lonely this Christmas
In dorms, men and women now room together
Would you buy a love affair from this man?
Miscellaneous
No. 10 ‘blocked move to legalise prostitution’
Gender Issues Digest – Edition 39 December 17, 2006
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Interviews, Profiles and Obituaries
Profile: American Pastoral – Willa Cather
Profile: Adviser to Senator Clinton stays in the shadows – Patti Solis Doyle
Profile: Inside the world of Mrs Brown – Sarah Brown
Profile: The Closest Reader – Helen Vendler
Profile: The naked wonder in her face – Marilyn Monroe
Profile: Billion dollar baby – Mary-Kate Olsen
Interview: The next big thing – Beth Ditto
Interview: And for my next role – Cate Blanchett
Interview: Out of the darkness – Sharon Osbourne
Interview: If you can’t stand the heat – Martha Stewart
Interview: Saintlier than thou – The All Saints
Interview: It’s all gone widescreen – Helena Bonham Carter
Interview: Bye-bye Baby – Emma Bunton
Interview: Queen of the Islands – Imelda Marcos
Obituary: Betty Comden, lyricist for musicals, dies aged 89
Obituary: Doris Halsey, Aldous Huxley’s literary agent, dies aged 80
Opinion
Barbara Ellen: When it comes to overindulging, posh boys don’t have enough class
Kirsty Wark: In deep with Madonna
Julie Bindel: Why are pregnant lesbians scary?
Issue: The Politics of Contraception, Reproduction and Abortion
Childless – Some by chance, some by choice
After decades of opposition, Vatican view on condoms begin to change
Bishops stand firm on birth control
But will men take it? – the new male contraceptive
The ‘men’s rooms’ of fertility clinics
Doctors offer illegal baby sexing
Doctors: Let us kill disabled babies
Issue: Gender and Health
The weighty responsibility of drinking for two
Reversing trend: Big drop is seen in breast cancer
Condoms ‘too big’ for Indian men
Most men ‘unhappy with penis ops’
Chinese province plans pre-marriage AIDS test
Issue: Gender and Alternative Sexualities
Gay and evangelical, seeking acceptance
Issue: The State of Modern Relationships
They’d rather die – the brief lives of Afghan slave wives
Issue: The Politics of Size
Issue: Gender, Fashion and Beauty
FDA will allow breast implants made out of silicone
How’s this for a fit: A shoe line by Imelda Marcos
What sane and sensible woman would pay £1000 for a makeover?
What not to wear over 35 if you are a man
Gender and Food
A girl’s guide to eating and drinking
Eat, Memory: Bardot’s Little Helper
Miscellaneous
Woman Bishop takes over Church
Reforms still leave British women short of pensions
From head scarf to army cap, making a new life
Hardliners turn on Ahmadinejad for watching women dancers
As vice dragnet recalls bad old days, Chinese cry out
Plastic Surgery Primer December 13, 2006
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Silicone breast implants returning to the market , an interesting editorial on cosmetic genital surgery, and, of course, the full body face lift.
Botched Abortions in Guatemala December 13, 2006
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Blog entry from Xeni at BoingBoing regarding her trip to Guatemala. Statistics are scary.
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