There are a few of quick notes about the UN’s Rashida Manjoo’s claim that the UK is endemically sexist and that is is worse here than “other places”. Firstly, it’s a bit of a shock, if I’m honest. I’ve written a fair few things about gender and sexism, and of course I’m aware of and appreciate the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Feminism’
A feminist in support of OMOV for Labour Students elections
Dec 17th, 2013 by Marian Craig.This weekend, I was a first-time delegate to the national council of Labour Students, an organisation I have been a member of for two years. One of the main debates of the weekend was moving to a system of “one member one vote” (OMOV) for Labour Students elections. It is my intention to report the facts […]
Louise Mensch and Conservative Feminism
May 31st, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.When I was an undergraduate I probably spent more time dosing up on heavy duty social theory than drinking until blindness set in. One module I took was on feminist social theory because, at that time, I was deeply concerned with questions around revolutionary subjectivity and the place socialism had in a fragmenting and media […]
French feminists join campaign against EU Fiscal Compact
Sep 19th, 2012 by Tom Gill.French feminists have joined a growing campaign against a new EU treaty arguing that women would be in the frontline of a scary new world of ‘permanent austerity’ . The Fiscal Compact, set to be tabled for a vote in the National Assembly in October, would threaten women’s rights and ‘exacerbate gender inequalities’ as cuts […]