- Face of Rosie the Riveter poster dies
A Michigan factory worker used as the unwitting model for the wartime Rosie the Riveter poster whose inspirational 'We Can Do It!' message became an icon of the feminist movement has died. インスピレーションリベットポスターロージー戦時中に知らず知らずのモデルとして使用されるミシガン州の工場労働者たちはそれを行うことができます！メッセージは、フェミニスト運動のアイコンが死亡したとなった
- Feminist postcard art auction
A selection of images from the upcoming auction of feminist postcards
フェミニストはがき、今後のオークションから画像の選択
- For artist, Brazil's new president is a doll
Brazil's new President Dilma Rousseff may have been elected on a feminist platform arguing women have a place in power, but for one artist, she's just a doll.Marcus Baby said he pieced together the replica of Rousseff, complete with red dress and presidential sash, to add to his personal collection of figurines.The doll was a purely artistic exercise, he said on his website, explaining that he was not connected to any political party. ブラジルの新大統領Dilma Rousseffが、女性は、電源の場所があると主張しフェミニストプラットフォーム上で選出されている場合があります一人のアーティストのため、彼女はちょうどdoll.Marcus赤ちゃんは、彼がRousseffのレプリカを、赤いドレスと大統領サッシとの完全なつなぎだだfigurines.The人形の彼の個人的なコレクションに追加する純粋に芸術的な運動だ、と彼は彼がどの政党に接続されていないことを説明する、彼のウェブサイトを明らかにした
- Taslima to attend Nepal's first lit fest
Exiled Bangladeshi writer and feminist Taslima Nasrin’s presence will add glitter to Nepal’s first literary festival being held in Kathmandu this week inspired by the annual Jaipur litfest. 追放されたバングラデシュの作家とフェミニストTaslimaナスリーンの存在は、毎年恒例のジャイプールのlitfestに触発今週カトマンズで開催されたネパールで最初の文学祭に輝きを追加します
- Lewd Pirelli calendars so last year
Feminists in macho Italy hope it could be the end of the road for raunchy Pirelli-style calendars amid claims the country is ditching the traditional nude for worthier charity varieties.Stealing the limelight from flesh-filled... マッチョなイタリアのフェミニストは、国は、肉を充填から脚光を浴びてvarieties.Stealing worthier慈善事業のための伝統的なヌードを捨て、請求項中だらしないピレリスタイルのカレンダーのための道路の終わりであることを願って...
- My top 10 Arab women | Nesrine Malik
It is easy to celebrate women who are rich and powerful, but what about those who challenge the status quo?Arabian Business recently published a list of the 100 most powerful Arab women, which was topped by Sheikha Lubna of the UAE. A member of the royal family, Sheikha Lubna was recognised for her considerable impact in UAE business and politics.Averse as I am to the prominence of Arab female royalty in such lists, I was relieved that it was Sheikha Lubna and not Queen Rania of Jordan (entirely absent from the list) who came top. Lubna al-Qassemi isn't your typical fashion-forward telegenic royal walkabouter. She actually has a real job – as the minister of foreign trade, no less.In second place is another business force to be reckoned with, Lubna Olayan of Olayan enterprises in Saudi Arabia.Obviously, considering the nature of the magazine, its ranking criteria are heavily business focused. But while an encouraging number of Arab women now occupy top positions in business, this is not an accurate reflection of the different ways Arab women wield influence. Activists, feminists and human rights campaigners are conspicuously absent and media personalities rank low.While there is much fascination with women who achieve great things in business in the Arab world due to the challenges this must have posed and the wealth they have accumulated, there should be room in this slightly sanitised list for those whose ideas and actions consistently question the status quo.I was surprised that Egyptian feminist and writer Nawal el Sadaawi did not get a place anywhere, and when I remarked about this on Twitter a Saudi woman responded that she probably needed a Hermes tote to make it.Also, most of the women at the top end of the list seem to have had a very firm springboard, either t それは誰の現状は？アラビアビジネスは最近、アラブ首長国連邦のシェイカLubnaで突破した100の最も強力なアラ。。u200b。。u200bブの女性のリストを公開されて挑戦。。u200b。。u200bするものかについては、豊かで強力な女性を祝うために簡単です
- Cannes 2011 review: We Need to Talk About Kevin
Lynne Ramsay's superb version of the Lionel Shriver novel tackles the mess left behind for the mother of a teenage killerCinema's worst ever case of post-natal depression is the subject of this compelling psycho-horror nightmare from Lynne Ramsay, adapted from the novel by Lionel Shriver.It is a movie which is a skin-peelingly intimate character study and a brilliantly nihilist, feminist parable: what happens when smart progressive career women give birth to boys: the smirking, back-talking, weapon-loving competitive little beasts that they have feared and despised since their own schooldays?Producer-star Tilda Swinton brings her A-game to the role of Eva, the gaunt and haunted middle-aged woman living through an unending hell: her teenage son Kevin is in prison for committing a Columbine-style atrocity at his high school and she is perpetually assaulted and abused by the bereaved parents. Eva is simultaneously at the centre of this atrocity and at its margin: she must pay dearly in her wretchedness every waking moment and yet can make no restitution. All that is left to her is to replay, endlessly, the story of Kevin's life and ponder her own role. Was she at fault – other than in giving birth to him? Or was Kevin's a fathomless, motiveless evil? Or is it simply that Kevin is a tragic and gruesome outlier: a freak exaggeration of the banal fact that boys get angry at their parents, angry at their schools, angry at new baby siblings, angry at themselves, and will find some way of acting out?Whatever the reason, it is not just a question of talking about Kevin, but doing something. Yet what is there to do?John C Reilly plays her unhappy husband and Ezra Miller is the scowlingly unrepentant Kevin himself. From the first, it seems, Eva's son had a malevolent, alien quality ライオネルシュライバー小説のして、Lynne Ramsayさんの見事なバージョンは、産後うつ病の10代のkillerCinemaの史上最悪の例の母親のために残された混乱をタックルライオネルシュライバーの小説から引用して、Lynne Ramsayさんからこの魅力的な心理ホラー悪夢の対象であり、それは皮膚peelingly親密な文字研究とされているムービーが見事に虚無主義者、フェミニストの寓話：笑いを、バックは、彼らが持っている武器を愛する競争力のある小さな動。。u200b。。u200b物の話：スマート進行キャリア女性が男の子を出産するときに何が起こるか？恐れ、自分の学生時代以来、軽蔑プロデューサーつ星のティルダスウィントンは果てしない地獄エヴァ、痩せやお化け中年の女性の生活の役割に彼女à -ゲームをもたらします：彼女の十代の息子ケビンはコロンバインをコミットするための刑務所では、彼の高校でスタイルの残虐行為と、彼女は永遠に暴行され、遺族の両親に虐待
- "Kill your dog, save a flower"
Outspoken Australian feminist Germaine Greer has launched a stinging attack on domestic dogs, blaming them for the ruination of a protected perennial flower, the English bluebell.Addressing Britain's Hay Festival on Thursday,... 歯に衣着せぬオーストラリアフェミニストジャーメーングリーアは、保護された多年草花の没落のためにそれらを非難し、国内の犬の強烈な攻撃を開始した、木曜日に英語bluebell.Addressing英国のヘイフェスティバル、...
- Fran O'Sullivan: More to DSK saga than swiftly laid rape case
The New York prosecutor's decision to drop rape charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn will be dissected by journalists, feminists and political analysts for years to come.And so it should be.Cyrus R. Vance jnr's decision not... ドミニクストロスカーンに対する強姦罪をドロップするには、ニューヨーク検事の決定は、その本来あるべきbe.Cyrus R.バンス国鉄の決定をしないcome.Andに年間ジャーナリスト、フェミニストや政治アナリストによって解剖される...
- How feminism could improve judicial decision-making
What difference would it make if a judge's feminist values and perspectives were included in their decision-making?Can judges be feminists? Should judges be feminists? On one view the answer is easy: no. We don't want our judges to be activists. We don't want them to promote their own political agendas. We want them to do their job. We want them to apply the law.Now, of course, we can all agree that we want our judges to take their judicial responsibilities seriously. But judges – especially those at the highest levels – are often called on to make decisions where the existing legal rules provide no clear answer. In such cases, the judge must turn to their own sense of justice, of what is right and wrong, to decide the case. And this will differ from judge to judge. None of this is controversial. Judges often disagree, and not simply on what the authorities say but on the direction the law should take.So, given that judges will, sometimes, have no choice but to fall back on their own values and perspectives, why shouldn't feminist values and perspectives be included? And if they were, what difference might this make to the law and the way cases are decided?The Feminist Judgments Project offers a vision as to what the law might look like if there were (more) feminist judges, and in doing so, challenges our thinking about law and judging. More than 50 academics, practitioners and activists have come together to produce 23 alternative feminist judgments in a series of key cases in English law.In R v A (No 2), for example, instead of rules restricting the use of sexual history evidence in rape trials being overturned by an all-male House of Lords (itself the subject of a legal challenge by the Fawcett Society), the feminist judgment by Clare McGlynn upholds the restrictions _NULL_
- Greer under pressure
Feminist writer Germaine Greer was under pressure to apologise after she suggested that British troops might take part in rapes if they are sent into Libya. Greer was speaking during a BBC discussion about allegations that Libya's... フェミニスト作家ジャーメーングリーアは、彼女は彼らがリビアに送信される場合にイギリス軍がレイプに参加する可能性が示唆された後に謝罪する必要に迫られていた
- Nawal El Saadawi: 'I have been dreaming of this revolution since I was a child' - video
Comment is free interviews: Egyptian feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi on her country's long-awaited revolution and why Egypt still has a long way to goAlex HealeyDavid ShariatmadariElliot Smith
コメントは自由なインタビューです：エジプトのフェミニスト作家と活動家Nawalエルサーダウィ彼女の国の待望の革命で、なぜエジプトはまだgoAlex HealeyDavid ShariatmadariElliotスミスへの長い道のりを持っている
- Is there a role for men in the battle for gender equality?
• Stereotyping men as macho perpetrators not helping women empowerment• Men need to do more to promote gender equalityMen will continue to be eyed with suspicion rather than allies in the battle for women's equality if they fail to question their own privileged positions, according to the latest edition of Contestations, an ejournal that invites online debate and dialogue as it seeks new insights into gender and development issues.In an article entitled 'Women's empowerment: what do men have to do with it?', Pathways of Women's Empowerment research group director Andrea Cornwall and Emily Esplen, of One World Action, write that the way men and women are portrayed in the field of Gender & Development (GAD) does little to encourage men to see gender equality as their issue too.Moving beyond stereotypesAfter 30 years of feminist engagement with development, they say 'it is proving harder than many of us had hoped for gender and development policy and practice to move beyond familiar stereotypes - women as abject victims or splendid heroines, men as all-powerful perpetrators'.They draw attention to fears expressed by some feminists that enlisting men in the battle for gender justice is 'a diversion from the real task of working toward women's empowerment, a nuisance and a threat, draining away vital funding and attention from women's rights, or a fashion without political substance'.And they invite considered responses to their article, which features as the third edition of Contestations from the Pathways group, which is based at IDS.The authors write that there is much that men can do to advance the social transformation goals of feminism: 'Take the glaring gap that exists the world over in the representation of women and men in political institutions. Men's groups and mo 女性のエンパワーメント•男性に貢献していないマッチョ加害者として•ステレオタイプの男性によると、ジェンダーequalityMenは、女性の平等のための戦い、彼らは自分の特権の位置に疑問を失敗した場合の同盟国ではなく、疑いの目で目にしていきます促進するため、よりを行うに必要な最新のContestations、それはジェンダーと開発issues.Inに資料と題する新たな洞察を求めて、オンライン討論と対話を招待ejournalのエディション。。u0026#39;女性のエンパワーメント：何人がそれを行うには持っている。。u0026#39;、経路女性のエンパワーメント研究グループディレクターのアンドレアコーンウォール、エミリーエスプレンは、ワンワールドアクションの、方法、男性と女性は、男性がそれらの問題はフェミニズムの30年stereotypesAfterを超えてtoo.Moving、ジェンダーの平等を参照してくださいすることをお勧めして少しジェンダー開発（GAD）の分野では描かれていることを書く開発に関与は、彼らは。。u0026#39;それが難しくも私たちの多くは、ジェンダーと開発政策と実践に精通しステレオタイプを超えて移動するために期待していた証明している - すべての強力な加害者として絶望的な被害者や華麗なヒロイン、男性と女性と言う
- Letters: Racism, feminism and banning the veil
The vote in the French lower house to ban the wearing of the face veil in public is a dangerous development in the intensification of Islamophobia in Europe (Racism veiled as liberation, 15 July). That it has been proclaimed as a victory for women's rights makes it all the more appalling. Racism is being legitimised by giving it a feminist spin. Banning the veil, or any other sort of Islamic dress, has nothing to do with liberating women. Liberation, if it is to mean anything, is about self-determination. This must include choice about how to live and dress. It is a myth that women only wear the veil because men force them to. Many women wear the veil in defiance of their parents. Why? Because they see it as a statement of pride in their religious identity and a refusal to be cowed by state-endorsed demonisation of Islam.If there are women forced to wear the veil by a male family member, how will the state forcing them not to wear it help? Such enforcement can never be progressive. The result will be that, far from being liberated, such women may become completely excluded from public life. It has become mainstream common sense to denounce Islam as somehow uniquely backward and oppressive. For those of us who genuinely believe in challenging oppression and fighting for women's liberation, we see it for what is, racism. Across Europe the only beneficiaries of such laws will be the far right.Judith OrrAuthor, Sexism and the System• There may be a small minority of women who wear the face veil in France, but I have lived in East Ham for 10 years and over this time I have noticed an increase in the number of women covering their faces. On a practical level, teachers in the local nursery are often worried when a parent collects a child as they are unable to identify the pa フランス衆院での投票は、顔の公共の場でベール着用を禁止する欧州でイスラム恐怖症の人種差別は解放としてベールに包まれた強化（危険な開発が7月15日）
- Guardian Books podcast: Heroines and feminists
In the week of International Women's Day, we turn our attention to literary heroines. Meg Clothier, author of The Girl King, a historical novel on the life of Georgia's legendary queen, Tamar, and Kira Cochrane, former women's editor at the Guardian, come into the studio to debate the place of heroines in fiction, and to ask why there are so few of them in contemporary novels. Cochrane has also just published a new collection of 40 years of feminist writing at the Guardian; she tells us about the inspiration behind it, the process of putting it together, and whether the women who feature can be considered heroines themselves.We also attend an event held to launch a new collection of letters from the Marxist theorist and feminist Rosa Luxemburg, and hear from Susie Orbach and David Edgar on why her work has been so personally inspirational for them.Reading listThe Girl King by Meg ClothierWomen of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism edited by Kira CochraneThe Letters of Rosa Luxemburg Moon Tiger by Penelope LivelyHome by Marilynne RobinsonTales of the City by Armistead MaupinRoom by Emma DonoghueA Far Cry from Kensington by Muriel SparkOdd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane HowardSarah CrownKira CochraneMeg ClothierTim MabyClaire Armitstead
国際女性の日の週には、我々は文学のヒロインに目を向ける
- Jessica Valenti | Top 100 Women
Pioneering blogger whose online activism dragged feminism into the 21st centuryIf feminism is enjoying a revival among young women, much of the credit should go to women such as Jessica Valenti, 33. The creator of Feministing.com, a site set up for younger feminists who felt their voices were ignored, helped spark an explosion of blogs and online communities that effectively shifted the movement online.At a time when the death of feminism was being announced, they launched discussions, voices, support and campaigns around the world. Valenti, the author of three books on feminism, felt the full force of being a pioneer – with online abuse, rape and death threats, dismissal by older feminists and a torrent of insults over her appearance in a photograph with Bill Clinton exposing the downside of online feminism.Yet the momentum created by bloggers has spilled over into activist groups, workshops and campaigns – and helped create a new heyday for feminism.WomenBloggingFeminismNewspapers & magazinesDigital mediaHoma Khaleeliguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
そのオンライン行動ドラッグフェミニズム第二十一centuryIfフェミニズムに若い女性の間での復活を楽しんでいる先駆的ブロガー、多くのジェシカバレンティ、33のような女性に行く必要があります信用
- Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations by Ayaan Hirsi Ali – review
The Somali/Dutch feminist combines the polemic and narrative strands of her writing to electrifying effectAyaan Hirsi Ali has produced two genres of writing. First, there is the sharp but programmatic style of her first book, The Caged Virgin, which assaulted the theological foundations of Islam and promoted the rights of Muslim women. While earning her death threats from within the Islamic world, her message has also attracted condemnation from a wide circle of liberal and feminist commentators. For them, her arguments are too stark, too totalising, too lacking in nuance.Then there is her autobiographical writing. Her first memoir, Infidel, tells of her emergence on to the European political stage from a Somali desert culture. Hers is a story of exile from her clan through war, famine, arranged marriage, religious apostasy and the shocking murder on the streets of Amsterdam of her collaborator, Theo van Gogh. Told with lyricism, wit, huge sorrow and a great heart, this is one of the most amazing adventure narratives of the age of mass migration.With Nomad, Hirsi Ali combines her two genres, narrative and polemic. She tells stories that were glanced over in Infidel – of her father, mother, sisters, brother and cousins – describing a clan system shattering on the shores of modernity. But the longest shadow is cast by the remarkable figure of her grandmother, who gave birth to daughters alone in the desert and cut her own umbilical cord, raged at herself for producing too many girls, rebelled against her husband, arranged for the circumcision of her granddaughters and instilled in them an unforgiving, woman-hating religion.Hirsi Ali observes that her own nomadic journey has been taken across borders that have been mental as much as geographical. In Nomad she calls her a ソマリア/オランダフェミニストは、記述する2つのジャンルを生産している衝撃的なeffectAyaan Hirsiアリに彼女の執筆の論争と物語ストランドを組み合わせたものです
- Letters: Even DHL found sex hard to write about
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water! Germaine Greer attacks DH Lawrence rightly for his worst and, I find, unreadably silly book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (Arts comment, G2, 15 November). How did she ever get through it? But to damn him completely for a single book he wrote when he was dying of consumption and crazily angry in his denial of that fact – and when he made the absurd error of trying to fight through the prudery that existed in his society by camouflaging the sexual encounters of his protagonists in loopy language – is equally silly.He wrote many better books, including Kangaroo, which to this day gives us a remarkable understanding of Australia, its landscape, people and early politics – even though Lawrence himself spent only a few weeks in that country. If Greer is really interested in understanding relationships between men and women, husbands and wives, she should perhaps try The Rainbow again.Mick WilsonBury St Edmunds, Suffolk• As a professor of English literature, Ms Greer should not make the basic mistake of confusing the author's views with those of one of his characters. Mellors is not Lawrence; nor is his treatment of Clifford merciless or contemptuous – this is just a misreading. Most serious writers are capable of making a hash of writing about sex, and Lawrence is no exception, but this should not lead to a wholesale condemnation of their work. To expect Lawrence to conform to the canons of contemporary political correctness shows a parochialism of time and opens to ridicule serious feminist criticism.Andrew MortonBirminghamDH LawrenceAustraliaFeminismguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
風呂水で赤ちゃんを投げについてのトーク！ジャーメイングリア、私が見つけ、彼の最悪の事態に当然unreadably愚かな本をDHロレンスを攻撃し、チャタレイ夫人の恋人（アートコメント、G2が11月15日）
- Black Chiffon – review
White Bear, LondonThe textbooks all tell us that postwar British theatre, prior to the Royal Court revolution of the mid-1950s, was as arid as the Gobi desert. But a popular myth, lately dented by revivals of Terence Rattigan and Graham Greene, is further punctured by this production of Lesley Storm's intriguing family drama, which ran for 409 performances in 1949. What it proves is that women writers then were as alert as modern feminists to the menace of a patriarchal society.Storm's heroine, Alicia, is a supposedly average middle-class woman. Not that average, perhaps, since she lives in a plush house on the Chelsea Embankment. But the crisis arises when she's arrested for nicking a black chiffon nightdress from a department store on the eve of her son's wedding. Under questioning from a psychiatrist, it emerges that Alicia has been driven by a subconscious desire to compete with her future daughter-in-law and is the pivotal figure in an Oedipal drama in which father and son are bitterly at odds.The big question is whether Alicia will expose the family's dark secrets to save herself going to prison. But, although I could live without a superfluous final scene that wraps everything up too neatly, Storm is very good at exposing the pressures women faced in the male-dominated late-1940s: without a hint of bludgeoning didacticism, she shows that they were expected to sacrifice themselves on the altar of the dominating male ego. And the point emerges subtly in Andy Brunskill's Tough Theatre company revival. Maggie Daniels as Alicia hits just the right note of bourgeois inhibition and, even if Keith Chanter is a shade too vehement as her bullying husband, Gary Heron is excellent as the humane shrink who probes the muddy waters of English family life.Until 30 January. ホワイトベアーは、LondonTheの教科書のすべての戦後の英国は、劇場、1950年代半ばのロイヤルコート革命する前に、としてゴビ砂漠の乾燥されたことを教えて下さい
- For Colored Girls - review
Tyler Perry's new film is an adaptation of Ntozake Shange's celebrated feminist prose-poem play – and he's made a complete mess of itIt's not just lovers of long titles and dodgy spelling who get short-changed by Tyler Perry's sloppy adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1975 prose-play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. The source consists of 20 poetic soliloquies, which would take a director of some skill to make cinematic. Instead, Perry crafts poorly paced soap opera, playing out in the most obvious and crass manner possible the situations that the poems subtly dance around. Shange's original text, in this environment, becomes forced and unconvincing, the power of the words diminished by the uninspired visuals. What saves this film is the acting, which provides depth in a movie that blunders in all other departments.Rating: 2/5DramaRace issuesPhelim O'Neillguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
タイラーペリーの新作映画はヌトザケシャンゲの有名なフェミニスト散文。演劇を適応したものです - 彼はモータウンオハコの完全な混乱は、短期ヌトザケシャンゲの1975年の散文のタイラーペリーのずさんな適応によって変更を取得長いタイトルと危険なスペルだけの愛好家というわけではないができている、色の女の子のための演劇は虹はEnufされている場合の自殺考えている人
- Lesley Fowler obituary
Both a matriarch and a feminist, my wife, Lesley Fowler, who has died of cancer aged 64, felt that she led a dual life. She was the traditional mother and centre of the family, and a modern working woman who taught about the role of women in contemporary society.Born Lesley Welfare in Kent, she was the eldest of four children who lived in a house without electricity until she was 13. Surviving on benefits, the family earned extra cash by picking fruit and hops during the summer.Lesley's working-class single mother believed that the way out of poverty was through education. Despite passing the exams for the local grammar school, Lesley was turned down after her interview. She felt that this was because of her background, and it shaped her lifelong commitment to encouraging and inspiring other women to take up educational opportunities.She attended Olborough Manor school in Maidstone and trained as a secretary at Maidstone technical college. After her mother died in 1969, Lesley was the backbone of the family. She became the full-time national secretary of the Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the mid‑60s.Lesley and I met when she was organising the distribution of CND leaflets at the 1967 Liberal party conference in Blackpool. We married the next year and then moved to Manchester, where Lesley enrolled at the polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University) to study history and politics.We then had two sons, Tom and Sam, by which time Lesley was teaching secretarial studies at Bradford College. The difference between Kent and Yorkshire pronunciations provided much entertainment in her shorthand classes. She moved on to teaching the new women's studies undergraduate course, one of the first in the country, and inspired and su 両方の女家長、フェミニストは、64歳のがんで死亡した妻が、レスリーファウラー、彼女は二重生活を送っていたことを感じた
- Twilight's feminist backlash | Bidisha
That a woman created Bella's man-worshipping, abuse-excusing pathology is baffling – luckily strong heroines abound elsewhereSo. Twilight Eclipse. Wolfboy Jacob lurks nudely, rudely, buffly, looking ever-ready for some lupine tussling out yonder. Vampire Edward appears to be struggling with constipation. And Bella, how goes it with her? Do you know, I can't remember. Who is she? Nobody. What does she do? Nothing. Where is she without men? Nowhere. Want to know what Bella's secret power is? It's the power of negation. She's such a deadzone of psychic antimatter that supernatural mojo doesn't work on her. Other characters' magical skills simply dissolve when they encounter the sullen ringfence of her anticharisma.Bella's passivity, the oppressiveness of her boyfriends (presented as protectiveness), the fetishisation of female victimhood and the unstinting justification of the guys' abusiveness have spurred a strong feminist backlash against the books – a backlash which I fully support. Part of our sense of disturbance and bafflement is that while all the misogynist elements of Twilight are detectable in mainstream arts and the media, they are rarely created by women.Why would a dynamic, creative, prolific and talented woman like Stephenie Meyer write a protagonist as useless as this? Why would she create bullying males and set them up as love objects? Do young women despise themselves so much that the very best they can fantasise about is trailing around after not one but two bullies? It's puzzling. I grew up obsessively reading adventure novels by Tamora Pierce, the Worst Witch series and all sorts of bronze breastplate Amazonian guff. The women in these books bristled with chagrin and energy, as did their lovers, allies, enemies and friends. How could publishing have ta 女性が作成ベラの男-崇拝、虐待-言い。病理は不可解です - 幸いにも強いヒロインはelsewhereSoを富む
- The brutal crackdowns only make Iran's women stronger | Shirin Ebadi
The protest movement is now a year old – but the feminists at its helm can look back on decades of courageous activismThis weekend one year will have gone by since the Iranian people took to the streets in droves to protest at the fraudulent elections that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency. These peaceful demonstrations were met with extreme violence carried out by the Iranian regime. Since that day, the people have not backed down and continue to fight peacefully for basic human rights. Meanwhile, the government continues its crackdown on any opposition or dissent with ever increasing brutality.Just a few weeks ago, on 9 May, the lengths to which the regime will go to crush its opponents came to light. Five political prisoners were executed in secret. Not even their families or their lawyers were notified.Shirin Alam Holi, a 28-year-old Kurdish woman, was executed along with four men. In letters from Evin prison, Shirin wrote of being tortured to confess to charges of terrorism. She refused to confess, sealing her fate. At least 25 other men and women await the same fate on death row.However, as we see time and time again, the harsher the repression, the stronger the movement grows. And as the story of Shirin Alam Holi demonstrates, women are at the forefront of the struggle for human rights in Iran.But it is interesting to observe that this powerful feminist movement was not born out of the elections. It has been gaining strength and momentum since the Islamic revolution of 1979 – when the regime began imposing laws that were discriminatory against women – and even predates the revolution. Women in Iran have enjoyed the right to vote for nearly 50 years, since 1963. Today, under an even more repressive regime, they are flooding the ranks of doctors, profe 抗議運動は現在1歳です - が、その実権を握ってフェミニストに戻る勇気activismThis週末の数十年にイラン人が大挙して街にアフマディネジャドが返さ不正選挙で抗議していたので、一年で行っているが見ることができます大統領に
- Gordon Strachan obituary
My friend Gordon Strachan, who has died aged 76, was a maverick theologian, a Church of Scotland minister who loved to turn ideas inside out and challenge orthodox assumptions. His studies led him from history at Oxford to theology at New College, Edinburgh, where he did his PhD on Edward Irving, a 19th-century Scottish divine denounced as a heretic.In between research, Gordon was active in the Iona Community, spending summers helping rebuild the ruined medieval abbey on Iona in the Inner Hebrides. He became a minister in Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow, engaging his parishioners in the kind of inspiring activities integral to his character.Gordon had a wicked sense of humour and occasion. No one who was there will ever forget him dressed as Merlin at the pageant organised in celebration of the launch of his book The Return of Merlin (2006), when friends became a vast cast of characters from the Arthurian legends, with Gordon's son Christopher and friends as the knights of the Round Table.Tall and striking in looks, Gordon was a pied piper figure, particularly for the many students he taught in 25 years of tutoring Edinburgh University's Lifelong Learning courses. He led groups on Merlin quests to Glastonbury; Ruskin walks, imbued with nature poetry; and pilgrimages to Chartres, to explore links between architecture and sacred geometry.He came into his own when he met his wife, Elspeth, in the early 1970s across a crowded New College library. They went on to run the Netherbow Arts Centre in Edinburgh for six years, establishing a crucible of creativity involving artists, poets, musicians, ecologists and feminists. In the 1980s they ran the St Andrew's centre in Tiberias, Israel.Gordon wrote six books, full of detailed argument about what the conventional might re 私の友人ゴードンストラカン監督は、76歳で死亡した、異端の神学者であり、教会裏返しのアイデアを有効にすると正統派の仮定に挑戦しましたスコットランド大臣
- The Catholic church's gender delusion | Joanna Moorhead
If the church had women in senior roles, I feel sure it would have avoided this crisisHow, asked a friend the other day, can you still be a Catholic? You call yourself a feminist – but look at this organisation you're part of: it has to be one of the most outrageously sexist institutions on the planet. Not only do women have no equality, there's not even a real movement towards genuine equality. Women in your church have no voice, no influence and no political clout whatsoever.He was, of course, right: with each day that goes by, it seems to get harder to defend my decision to hang on as a churchgoing Catholic. For the last 20 years I've tried, through my work as a journalist both inside and outside the church, to argue for a greater and more equal role for women. Over the same period, women's rights as an issue seems to have all but disappeared – partly because there hasn't been enough will at the top (the present pope did say in 2007 that there should be more women in positions of power – but we're still waiting); and partly because, set against almost any other institution you could name, its stance on women seems more out of date and out of touch than ever.Despite Benedict's pledge, there is still only one woman, a Salesian nun, in a senior post in the Curia, or Vatican civil service (Sister Enrica Rosanna, a junior minister). Any woman stalking the corridors of power in Rome is likely to be there because of her ability at shorthand or deftness with a cappuccino machine.All of which is why I feel – at a parish and institutional level – as if I'm in a time warp. My church is stuck in the 1950s, in a world where it is perfectly all right for men to decide what is best for the whole community without any need to consult its majority – its women. In the decades since th 教会はシニアの役割の女性があれば、私はそれがこのcrisisHowを避けていると確信して、他の日友人に尋ねた場合でも、カトリックすることができます感じますか？あなたは自分のフェミニストを呼び出す - しかし、あなたが参加してこの組織を見て：それは最も非道性差別的な機関の地球上でする必要があります
- The Milk of Sorrow
The slums of Lima are the setting for an exploration of women's woeThis movie, directed by the Barcelona-based niece of the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, deals with the aftermath of the appalling civil war in the 1980s between Peru's repressive rightwing government and the mad Maoist revolutionaries of the Shining Path, the subject of John Malkovich's directorial debut, The Dancer Upstairs. The traumatised heroine Fausta was conceived during the multiple rape of her peasant mother. Nearly two decades later, living in the slums of Lima, she wants to take her mother's body back to her native village. But no one talks of the war and everything conspires against her. The picture is inspired by a study of the effects of the war on Peruvian women by a Harvard anthropologist, which apparently deals with the mythology of grief and suffering from a feminist perspective. While it paints a vivid picture of day-to-day life in the lower depths of Lima, it's a curiously opaque and unrevealing film.World cinemaDramaPeruJohn MalkovichPhilip Frenchguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
リマのスラム街は、女性のwoeThisの探査のための設定映画、ペルー家マリオバルガスリョサ、ペルーの抑圧政府と腹を右派の間で、1980年代に悲惨な内戦の余波を扱うのバルセロナベースの姪で指示されるシャイニングパスの毛沢。革命、ジョンマルコヴィッチの監督デビュー作のテーマ、ダンサー2階
- Ana Timberlake obituary
Our mother, Ana Timberlake, who has died aged 66 of the lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, was one of those rare women who proved that you can have it all. A successful businesswoman and loving mother of three, Ana was the founder of Timberlake Consultants Limited (TCL), a statistical consultancy firm, with particular applications in medical research and econometric modelling.Ana was born in Portugal, the daughter of a civil engineer. Her father, Armando da Palma Carlos, was at that time the resident engineer on the Pego do Altar dam construction site, Alentejo, where Ana spent her early childhood. Her family were no strangers to successful women. Her aunt, Elina Guimarães (whose husband, Adelino da Palma Carlos, was appointed prime minister following the 1974 revolution) was head of the National Council of Portuguese women and is considered to have been the first feminist in Portugal.Ana took her first degree, in mathematics, at Lisbon University, before coming to Britain in 1969 to do a master's degree in statistics and operational research at Southampton University. She then took up employment at PTRC (Planning and Transport Research and Computation), a small research unit in London.An early assignment at PTRC was to re-analyse the results of Robert Borkenstein's 1964 Grand Rapids study, upon which the British breathalyser test had been based in the mid-1960s. The original data had not been statistically adjusted and earlier analysis had suggested that driving improved with the intake of a small amount of alcohol. However, after Ana had standardised the data (for weather, vehicle age, driving experience, and so on), it became clear (much to the chagrin of the brewers) that alcohol intake did indeed make driving capability progressively worse.At PTRC, Ana com 特発性肺線維症66肺疾患の高齢者が死亡した私たちの母親、アナティンバーレイク、1人は、あなたがすべてあることを証明これらの貴重な女性だった
- Feminism doesn't have all the answers
Natasha Walter's new book on the return of sexism raises important issues - but it can't possibly nail down human natureThe feminist writer Natasha Walter has written a well-publicised new book, Living Dolls, in which she laments the liberated female's embrace of pole-dancing, Nuts magazine, Katie Price and related mainstream sleaze. I haven't read it yet, so I don't know her conclusions. But I do know one thing: feminists are disappointed in the behaviour of emancipated women, because they just didn't understand very much about how women who were not committed to feminism might behave, given emancipation.In an interview, Walter said she was inspired to write her book by a young woman who confessed she found it hard to find the courage to criticise the routine submission to male fantasy that her peers engaged in. Fair enough. Many women do feel that way.But many other women are happy to achieve validation via their ability to arouse the sexual interest of men. This sort of behaviour is not just the fantasy of (some) males, but of (some) females too. Some people, whatever their gender, simply have very crude, even deluded, ideas about what constitutes a fun time. That's just one of many human facts that feminism, for all its manifest virtues, overlooked.FeminismWomenDeborah Orrguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
差別の戻り値のナターシャウォルターの新しい本の重要な問題が発生します-しかし、それは多分、人形生活は、彼女が解放された女性のポールポジションを受け入れる嘆いても、公表の新しい本を書いている人間のnatureTheフェミニスト作家ナターシャウォルターくぎ付けすることはできませんダンス、ナッツ雑誌、ケイティ価格および関連する主流のみすぼらしさ
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