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Mar.13.2013 Objectifying Women’s Rights:Sexual Violence as a Brand The One Billion Rising campaign demanded “an end to this violence”. Violence does not knock on doors and seek permission to enter. It has been almost three months since the Delhi gang rape of December 16. Ever since, the media has been carrying articles or doing television stories on different...	Feb.06.2012 Failing the Virginity Test Cairo -- The sick obsession with controlling women and baby-making is a bottomless well of weirdness. In Egypt, and other nations, Indonesia and Turkey among them, certainly the Gulf States, doctors or midwives are sometimes asked to perform "virginity tests" to ensure that a man is getting a...
Nov.01.2011 7 Billion Mutinies Now: The Fight For Women Imagine a situation where a few years from now she could be married and forced to become the shared booty between brothers because she survived Across the globe, the seven billionth addition to the human population has been welcomed symbolically. Baby deaths, another vital statistic, can be pushed...	May.17.2011 The Patriarchy is So Dada Dominique Strauss-Kahn, he of the Madoff mane, alleged rapist and head of the International Monetary Fund - talk about branding! - is not too big to jail. Tant pis. Wait, wait, there's more. Arnold reveals he fathered a child ten years ago with a member of his household staff. Charlie Sheen is...
Dec.24.2009 Want To See Women Do The Ho-Ho-Ho? He looks like he has given birth several times, nursed babies at his bosom and been a good mother. But Santa Claus is not a woman. Is this just feminist tripe? Can’t one accept the jolly good fellow that millions do and gender be damned? I did. At school, a starchy convent where the most important...	Dec.21.2009 On the Ethics of Reviewing I was asked to review a manucript for possible publication by a reputable university press in the South. There would be payment for my report. I could see from the table of contents that 90 per cent of the manuscript was dedicated to male writers. All of the women writers were lumped together...
Nov.24.2009 Phew! What a Relief! Part I of Wollstonecraft Revisited has been thoroughly revised I am very happy to announce that I have revised the first part of the essay: Wollstonecraft Revisited: A Commentary... which is not at all limited to that of one of the first feminist critiques of the ideological and practical aspects of patriarchy, but also includes related notes on the...	Apr.21.2009 a new poem From Cross to Empty Tomb two potential symbols for a movement destined to change the world the first stood as an instrument of roman brutality domination and death an object lesson for those who challenged imperial dominion the second one with much softer insinuations signified maternal love...