...my chief difficulty on Ross-shire has been the women. It was the women as you are aware who at Coigach, aided and abetted by the men, twice defeated Sheriff Cameron and the posse comitatus of the county. It was the women who, in the Invergordon riots, when the Military were called in, attacked the soldiers with staves and other missiles, and ( Read more... )

Some poor women put the veil on for economic reasons, or to protect themselves from men in the streets. Some Muslim women put on the veil as an anti-Western protest, or to assert their authentic, Islamic identity and indigenous culture. They do not know that the veil is not an Islamic dress. They think that they can protest against foreign invasion ( Read more... )

Interesting book, in that while it's written by two atheists and has a few references to a lack of god, it can be read as a 'how to be a religion and not be a dick' guide. It highlights that religion almost certainly isn't the original cause of generalised misogyny, but is a great perpetuator of it in current times - and that rigid adherence to ( Read more... )

History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism is awesome, brilliant, wonderful, excellent, fantastic (apart from the cover, which looks like a woman from a medieval manuscript has been caught up in a nasty transporter accident, but we can ignore that). Oh, and really readable, which is something that is often missing from feminist books ( Read more... )

I received a lovely Victorian (1875) book for Christmas: "Brave Women: Who Have Been Distinguished for Heroic Actions and Noble Virtues; Who Have Exhibited Fearless Courage, Stout Hearts, And Intrepid Resolve."

Aren't you already inspired?

From the Preface:
Woman, in course, in resolution, in purpose, is man's equal, often his superior. In ( Read more... )

The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner ( Read more... )

Read this article.

Adoption fucked up my head far worse than abortion. I've googled over the years about the psychological aftereffects of giving up a baby, and what little I found is astonishing. Depression and suicide rates ridiculously high, comparable to PTSD - and beyond a shadow of a doubt, there is no way you can cook any post-abortion ( Read more... )

The Demon Lover: The Roots of Terrorism by Robin Morgan. What will it take to make them hear?It's said that women are society's canaries in the mine - living alerts to danger - and it's true that a civilization can be gauged by the status of its female citizens. But miners pay attention to the canaries' health and reactions, since they know that ( Read more... )

Each year, around 1 in 10 women in Britain experience rape or other violence

One in four local authorities leave female victims of violence without the specialised support they need.

At 1:10 on Friday 6th, we want this message to resound around every online network for International Women’s Day.


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