Feminism

  • Footballers behaving badly: Changing attitudes toward women. Kim Toffoletti
    Part 1 | Part 2 Allegations of sexual misconduct by sportsmen seem to appear in the Australian news media on a disturbingly regular basis. Why is it that male athletes of major sports like football and rugby are often linked to incidents of bad behaviour toward women? Do men's sports breed a neg... » play video
  • SlowTV: On women and progress in religion. Joan Chittister

    Joan Chittister | Melbourne | Dec. 2009
    On women and progress in religion. Joan Chittister
    Part 1 | Part 2 Sister Joan Chittister, one of the most prominent figures and strident voices at the Parliament of the World's Religions, speaks in this session about the issues closest to her heart, and for which she's become famous for: women in church and society, feminism, human rights a... » play video
  • SlowTV: Key Thinkers: Helen Irving on Mary Wollstonecraft

    Helen Irving | Sydney | Oct. 2009
    Key Thinkers: Helen Irving on Mary Wollstonecraft
    Part 1 | Part 2 In this Key Thinkers lecture (Sydney Ideas), Professor Helen Irving looks at the life and work of Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was the first theorist systematically to give voice to what we now call feminism. Her Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was a radi... » play video
  • SlowTV: Emily Maguire: The Accidental Feminist. ANU

    Emily Maguire | Canberra | Mar. 2009
    Emily Maguire: The Accidental Feminist. ANU
    In this talk (subtitled "When lived experience collides with the myth of a post-feminist world"), Emily Maguire (author, Princesses and Pornstars) looks at the role and status of feminism today; and how women born after 1970s successes of the women's liberation movements have come to rea... » play video
  • Gender: Does it matter nowadays? Hosted by Ramona Koval
    This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
  • SlowTV: Gender: Does it matter nowadays? (p2)

    Melbourne | Jan. 2009
    Gender: Does it matter nowadays? (p2)
    This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
  • SlowTV: Gender: Does it matter nowadays? (p3)

    Melbourne | Jan. 2009
    Gender: Does it matter nowadays? (p3)
    This event, organised as part of the Melbourne Conversations series (City of Melbourne), addresses the topic of gender in contemporary society. One hundred years since women in Victoria gained the right to vote through parliament, the speakers discuss justice, work, relationships, quality, participa... » play video
  • SlowTV: Germaine's Legacy: After 'The Female Eunuch'. Adelaide Writers' Week

    Germaine Greer | Adelaide | Mar. 2008
    Germaine's Legacy: After 'The Female Eunuch'. Adelaide Writers' Week
    Robyn Davidson, Georgia Blain and Deborah Robertson join Germaine Greer in this Adelaide Writers' Week panel to discuss the legacy of Greer's The Female Eunuch.(Part 1 of 2) Click here for Part 2... » play video
  • Germaine's Legacy: After 'The Female Eunuch'. Adelaide Writers' Week - part two
    Robyn Davidson, Georgia Blain and Deborah Robertson join Germaine Greer in this Adelaide Writers' Week panel to discuss the legacy of Greer's The Female Eunuch.(Part 2 of 2)... » play video