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Tag: feminism
Selling feminism
Fourth wave feminism has been used to books and ideals. Now it is being used to sell beauty.
Debutante balls and the persistent obsession with the purity of young women
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.
Life after COVID: Women’s Participation in Rebuilding States
In the last twenty years, great focus has been given to women’s participation in peacebuilding processes. In countless wars and … More
A Gender and Law Timeline
The law often acts as a mirror to society. It sets out what a society finds acceptable as behaviour and where our red lines lie.
The books we were reading in 2019
Say goodbye to the noughties the right way by reading these books.
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