Intersectionality is the study of intersections between different disenfranchised groups or groups of minorities; specifically, the study of the interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination. Julie Burchill wrote this. Paris Lees rejoined with this. Burchill (paraphrased): “intersectionality is about scoring points off multiple oppressions”. Lees (paraphrased): “intersectionality is about respecting difference”. Who’s right? Both of […]
Posts under ‘Feminism’
What is “intersectionality” for? And where does it leave class?
Feb 24th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.
Privilege Checking and Reflexivity
Jun 5th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.“Here, take a look at this” the activist brusquely instructed me. It was 2009 and I hadn’t been on Twitter for five minutes and already I was stuck in one of the endless storms systems that circulate around the place. I clicked through and met with a privilege checklist. Was I white? Tick. Was I […]
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We need to talk about porn
May 28th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.You can’t move for it. Porn, that is. So ubiquitous has it become that the Graun even has its own dedicated porn page. We are, apparently, living in something called ‘pornified culture’. Diane Abbot has very recently partly blamed this for a crisis of masculinity. Christians lament the damage pornified culture has on relationships, and feminists have consistently critiqued the adult industry for its […]
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Have the feminists won, or did Blairism see us off?
Apr 3rd, 2013 by Christine Shawcroft.NEC member Christine Shawcroft looks at the history of women’s organisation in the Labour Party. When I first tried setting up local women’s organisations in the Labour Party, it was the late 70s and they were generally known as Ladies’ Sections. The word “women” was considered rather uncouth. You needed the agreement of your (overwhelmingly […]
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Remembering ‘The Feminine Mystique’ today
Feb 19th, 2013 by Carl Packman.On the 19 February 1963, a book was published that has since been credited with providing the spark for second-wave feminism in the United States. The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan, highlighted what she called “the problem with no name” – that is the unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s. Why did it […]
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What Women Want – beyond Mel Gibson
Dec 30th, 2012 by Lucy Reese.One of the worst films I’ve ever had the misfortune of viewing goes by the title of What Women Want. The plot is wafer thin and so bad it’s almost good: everyone’s favourite fascist Mel Gibson plays advertising executive Nick who electrocutes himself and then gains the uncanny ability to hear what women are thinking. […]
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Tories are handling the women’s vote just nicely
Oct 8th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.As the Tories assemble today for their conference, in substantial disarray of their own making, nowhere have they screwed up so conclusively as in their policies towards women. The new Tory Minister for Women, Maria Miller, has just told us she’s keen to lower the abortion limit from 24 to 20 weeks. At least that’s […]
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The Gender Games
Aug 10th, 2012 by Mark Perryman.A World record crowd for a Women’s Football match. Three more Team GB Golds, all won by women athletes. The first ever Women’s boxing Gold, again won by a Team GB athlete. That was just yesterday, Thursday, at London 2012. For Team GB these Games have perhaps represented the single biggest challenge to the traditional […]
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Occupy whatever it takes
Nov 17th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Now that the deeply reactionary Corporation of the City of London have decided to uproot Occupy London, bang on cue with Mayor Bloomberg’s similar action in Zuccotti Park in New York and under the same specious pretext of health and safety, the question arises as to where Occupy goes from here.
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Labour MPs who voted for Dorries
Sep 8th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.For the record the eleven MPs who voted for the Dorries amendment were: Roy Joe Benton, Rosie Cooper, Jim Dobbin, Tom Docherty, Robert Flello, Mary Glindon, Tom Greatrex, Stephen Pound, Lindsay Frank Roy, Gavin Shuker and Keith Vaz. Voting against were 212 Labour MPs which means that there were 33 abstainers or absent – a smaller […]
