The Reluctant Feminist
I clearly identify myself as a feminist. I write for lip and link articles from Jezebel on facebook. I can identify advertisements or warnings which work to blame the victims of rape; I tell my brother off for buying Lynx deodorant; “the pay gap”, “the double-shift”, and “double standards” are phrases that regularly feature [...]
Books for budding feminists: Ariel Levy, female chauvinist pigs
In ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs’ author Ariel Levy questions what it means to be sexy today. Her search takes her all over America into strip clubs, women’s living rooms and onto a Florida beach where girls are encouraged to strip off their clothes for the cameras of hit TV show ‘Girls Gone Wild’. She finds a [...]
feminist of the week: stephen benko-nehme
Name: Stephen Benko-Nehme Age: 31 Occupation: Library / AV Technician How would you describe yourself and your life? I’m a Western Caucasian male nearing middle age, living in middle-class suburbia. Why are these specific details important? Because my relatively easy existence alluded to by my demographic puts me in a unique position – I [...]
books for budding feminists: natasha walter, living dolls: the return of sexism
The main thing I learnt by reading this book is that the sexism that existed pre-1950s is definitely sneaking back into society. While today it is mostly swept under the rug and hidden away, there remain aspects that are right out in the open just begging us, as women, to make a move to change [...]
marketing towards women
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf is the talk of lip at the moment! Despite it pretty much being required reading for Feminism 101, I only got around to reading The Beauty Myth this past weekend. There have been arguments that feminism and feminist theory is too deeply welled in academia, and that it can [...]
feminist news round-up 22.01.12
fashion models weigh 23 per cent less than the average woman According to the January issue of PLUS Model magazine, the average fashion model twenty years ago weighed 8 per cent less than the average woman; today, she weighs 23 per cent less. And most runway models nowadays meet the Body Mass Index criteria for [...]
feminist of the week: carrissa mcnamara
Name: Carrissa McNamara Age: 25 Occupation: Student How would you describe yourself and your life? I would describe myself as a fairly regular woman who’s passionate about animal welfare, equal opportunity, and vegetarianism. I’m also a serious loather (is that a word?) of gender stereotypes. I feel as though gender stereotypes are drummed into children [...]
Books for budding feminists: Naomi Wolf, the beauty myth
The book that made me realise that I was a feminist was “The Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf. It is essentially about the ways in which images of beauty are used against both men and women to make us feel more vulnerable. The book has chapters focusing on different aspects of life, work, religion, culture, [...]
my latest role model
I have a new role model. That person is Julie Goodwin. I never watched Masterchef and only vaguely knew of her through her appearances in some women’s magazines and on cooking segments on TV, but she first came to my attention a little while ago when, instead of joining up with Jenny Craig and spruiking [...]
trash talk : how to avoid joining the circle of self-hate
‘I’m having a fat day.’ ‘My boobs are too small.’ ‘I’m having a bad hair day.’ ‘I’m ugly.’ We all know these phrases. They start popping into our consciences at around age 12 (but with all that Toddlers and Tiaras crap it’s probably even younger now) and are then imprinted onto our experiences of “girl [...]
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