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Goals for Girls: Empowering Girls and Women through Soccer/Football in Argentina 27 Aug 2013 | 07:51 pm
A new documentary shows how girls from impoverished neighborhoods in Argentina are busting stereotypes and expectations and finding their power through soccer. On their website, the filmmakers say: ...
More Feminist Publications on PhilPapers 26 Aug 2013 | 06:11 pm
Readers may have seen this discussed on feminist listserves. Even some of us complacent philosophers who have profiles on PhilPapers may assume our work is categorized as “feminist” among other thing...
Turkish women and Gezi 25 Aug 2013 | 02:27 am
There’s a great article on women in Turkey in the New York Review of Books’ blog. Suzy Hansen gives a clear and balanced perspective on what’s been happening from the point of view of Turkish women s...
See How She Runs: Feminists Rethink Fitness (CFP) 24 Aug 2013 | 07:27 pm
Vol. 9, No. 2 Special Issue on Feminism and Fitness. The submission deadline for this issue is April 1, 2015. The guest editors are Samantha Brennan and Tracy Isaacs. ________________________________...
Chelsea Manning 23 Aug 2013 | 01:58 pm
Oh, what a day of getting things wrong for so many news outlets yesterday– mispronouning, misnaming, even misnaming while complaining about other people mispronouning! Here’s one story with the right ...
Query from a reader: Domestic Violence Research 22 Aug 2013 | 08:25 pm
I’m looking for a piece of research that (I’m sure) I’ve read in a feminist philosophy text. However, I can’t find it anymore and wanted to ask your readers for help. I recall reading about social sc...
Petition to SCSU regarding sexual harassment 22 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU) has an obligation to keep its students safe from professors who sexually harass, so why are they keeping Professor David Chevan on staff? In 2011, SCSU fo...
Amina quits FEMEN 22 Aug 2013 | 06:24 pm
Amina Sboui, the young Tunisian woman who was arrested and imprisonned for two months after publishing a topless photo of herself with the words ‘Fuck your morals’ written across her chest, has announ...
Antoinette Tuff is a hero 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 am
This woman is amazing. Here’s why we know about her. (More here, because I haven’t found a transcript yet of the call).
Whew! Judge doesn’t seem to view Manning as a traitor 21 Aug 2013 | 09:54 pm
From CNN: A military judge sentenced Manning to 35 years in prison — less than the 60 years prosecutors sought, as well as the 90 years he could have received — minus credit for the about three and a...
