Debutante balls are where our obsessions with high society and the purity of young women converged. For centuries, marriage was the only career path for women and Debutantes have had to aspire to idealised conception of what it means to be feminine.
Category: essays
Review: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
hooks published a book that interrogates and explores ideas within contemporary feminist theory of gender, sexuality, race, class and society.
Have women gained anything from CEDAW?
re have been vast improvements to the lives of women around the world in the last few decades and at the same time, a number of setbacks.
Are women inherently peaceful?
Please note: this essay was originally written in 2016 and the content contains reference to violence, sexual violence, and armed … More