Category: Politics
Virago Great Feminist Quotes – A Christmas Gift
Great Feminist Quotes to Inspire You this Christmas As a little gift from Virago to you this yuletide, we wanted to send you all cards . . . not your traditional Christmas card, we’ll admit, but some of…
UNCOMFORTABLE QUOTES
Uncomfortable Quotes Patriarchy has been used variously to refer to the control men exercise over women’s sexuality and fertility, to describe a systemic set of social relations which serve as the mechanism of women’s suppression, and has been seen…
Rape: women’s fault?
By Robin Joyce Placidly reading an Agatha Christie on a day of rain and need for comfort I was swiftly disabused of that notion upon reading the following: ‘…Well we all know what rape is nowadays. Mum tells the girl…
Women also use drugs – not that you can tell from drug policy
November 28, 2017 12.30am AEDT Ian Hamilton and Niamh Eastwood Authors
Elizabeth Reid Women’s Advisor to the Australian Government
Gough Whitlam was elected Prime Minister of Australia 2nd December 1972 and was the first Australian Prime Minister to appoint a women’s advisor. Elizabeth Reid was appointed. Following is an interview with her conducted by Emma Renwick. http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/act/content/2005/ The Life…
Katrina Lockwood: The Mystery of Isabella an the String of Beads A Woman Doctor In World War 1
Book review by Robin Joyce Publisher: Loke Press Author: Katrina Kirkwood Sold on Amazon and at good bookstores. The back-cover blurb tells us: It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: ‘Isabella Stenhouse’. A woman doctor? A…