The masculine mystique " What would fashion look like if it could shake off the ballasts of gender, sex, and sexuality? What would menswear look like if it could shed its anxieties around masculinity? More importantly, what would I look like? ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-04-17 15:26 - 0 comments

David Bowie: so ordinary, so glamorous " As well as the familiar ambiguities of gender and sexuality, in the best of the Ziggy songs Bowie channels both the extraterrestrial superstar and the crooked-toothed boy from Bromley: he is simultaneously ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2012-03-29 13:39 - 0 comments

That's enough politeness " Life may have become a little easier for white women who can afford to hire a nanny, but the rest of us have settled for a cheap, knock-off version of gender revolution. Instead of equality at work ...

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Do Mandatory Gender Quotas Work? ... and penalties for non-compliance – was made explicit in the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Gender ... (March 2012, The Monthly Essays, Feminism, Gender, Gender equality, Sex discrimination, Sex ...

The Monthly - Cordelia Fine - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

parallel to but is often overshadowed by the struggles over gender. Like feminism, it has at its core ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2012-03-01 10:44 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

While women play a significant role in our armed forces, whether they should be deployed in frontline combat situations is quite debatable. The underlying premise of Anne Summers’ ‘The Lady Killers’ (Dec/Jan) is that gender equality should ignore biology. ...

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China's great gender crisis "In the early 1980s there were 108 male births to every 100 female; by 2000 that had soared to 120 males. The ... (China, Gender, Gender equity, Gendercide, Guardian) ...

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manners was unquestioned. On the beaches, this meant small friendship groups of mixed gender; specific ... Culture, Australian Traditions, Cronulla Riots, Gender, Ghassan Hage, History of Australia, HRAFF, Human ...

The Monthly - Malcolm Knox - 2011-03-16 10:04 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

A gender divided " When poor countries choose to oppress their own women, they are to some extent choosing their own continued poverty . Female ... (Gender, Naomi Wolf, Project Syndicate) ...

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as a result of economic modernisation and the dissemination of ideas of gender equality. Rather, son ... as the facts themselves. One way of understanding gendercide is to position it as an extreme form of gender ... as the cause and describing gender imbalance among newborns as the “most serious demographic problem China ...

The Monthly - Anne Manne - 2010-06-10 14:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

sixties” to racial and gender relations. Indeed, until that time they were generally the defenders ...

Blog - Robert Manne - 2011-12-12 10:46 - 31 comments - 0 attachments

in frontline combat. “We’ve had mixed-gender units in frontline service since the Boer War,” says Neil ... on the individual’s capacity to do the work, not on their gender,” said Warren Snowden, minister for defence science ... but there should be no barrier based on gender. Physical and intellectual capability is the only requirement. If we ...

The Monthly - Anne Summers - 2011-12-01 17:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

make-up of our species, but the chance to switch genders and to maximise the modes of erotic play. ...

The Monthly - Peter Conrad - 2011-12-13 15:28 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Women in (every) uniform "Forget the faux arguments based on cultural issues, gender bias, group cohesion or even 'women's ... (Gender equity, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-28 15:36 - 0 comments

A post gender normative man tries to pick up a girl in a bar "Hey, how's it going? Mind if I sidle up? I saw you over here sitting alone ... (Gender, McSweeney's) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-25 14:58 - 0 comments

Harper's Weekly Review "Iran banned the television broadcast of love-triangle storylines and shirtless men, and Australia added to its passports the option to classify one's gender as indeterminate. In Denmark, the world's ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-09-21 14:08 - 0 comments

Cordelia Fine 4238199 Part 1 | Part 2 Looking at the brain to try and find out why men and women behave dif ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Sydney Opera House St James Ethics Centre 4235954 Part 1 | Part 2 Looking at the brain to try ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

neutral or beneficial in its effects on sexuality, relationships and gender relations. Benefits reported ... of commercial pornography, there are clearly major issues with the practice. Perhaps we first need real gender ... Feminism, Gender, Google, Pornography, Sexuality) ...

The Monthly - Cordelia Fine - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Childhood development, Gender, Guardian) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-06-21 15:03 - 0 comments

General item (Female infanticide, Gender equity, Gendercide, Sex selection, ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-14 10:09 - 0 comments

and gender politics advisor Catharine Lumby stand off in this heated Sydney Writers' Festival event ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 39 comments - 0 attachments

of gender-based violence as a tool of war. Lowy Institute, September 2009 ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

community needs take responsibility for tackling the problem of gender-based violence as a tool of war. ...

SlowTV - admin - 1970-01-01 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

(Feminism, Gender equity, Miles Franklin, The Drum) ...

The Shortlist Daily - admin - 2011-07-19 13:22 - 0 comments