05 May, 2011 // Category: Activism, Employment & Welfare, Gender equality, International
You could be forgiven for thinking it was an elaborate April Fools’ Day prank when British universities minister David Willetts announced earlier this month that feminism was to blame for the struggles of working-class men. During a briefing on the government’s social mobility strategy,...
18 February, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Gender equality
This article is from issue 46 of the journal Soundings and is exclusively available online at NLP. Sally Let’s start with a bit of context. In the forty years since the rebirth of feminism in the 1970s there has been a wide range of developments, some good, some bad. One way of understanding...
07 September, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
Clive Hamilton is professor of public ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, which is based at the Australian National University. He is the author of The Freedom Paradox, Growth Fetish and, most recently, Requiem for a Species. He spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty about the...
08 June, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
New Left Project presents the second excerpt from Gail Dines’s new book Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. “Fashion also is taking more aesthetic cues from porn, including the growing popularity of genital piercing and shaving, which was popularized by adult film actors.” -...
28 May, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
This is the first of two excerpts we are publishing from Gail Dines’s new book, Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. This excerpt is from the Introduction: Pornography and the Industrialization of Sex. “Don’t Come Here Looking for Love.” Ad for porn site, Im Live...
15 April, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
Gail Dines teaches sociology and women’s studies at Wheelock College in Boston. She is a founding member of Stop Porn Culture. She spoke to NLP’s Alex Doherty on her new book PornLand: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality.” Could you tell us what your new book ‘Pornland’ is about? What do...
24 March, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
Catherine Redfern is founder of The F Word website. Now almost ten years old, the site is recognised as influential in sparking a revived interest in feminism amongst younger women and men. In 2002 the site was highly commended by the Women in Publishing’s New Venture Awards, and in 2003 Redfern...
20 March, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
Deborah is Professor of language and communication at the University of Oxford. She is the author of ‘The Myth Of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?’ She was speaking with Alex Doherty. You argue that the way in which men and women communicate is essentially the...
25 February, 2010 // Category: Gender equality
Nina Power is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. Her latest book is ‘One-Dimensional Woman’. The gradual emancipation of women has been, without doubt, the greatest social revolution of the past few hundred years. The widespread acceptance of women’s entry into the...
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