Linda Brooks is a true pioneer. She’s a super-brainiac, an honors graduate of an elite law school, and a partner at a top New York law firm. But she’s a new kind of partner—an “80 percent” partner. After years of slogging through her work-to-the-max schedule, Linda now has every Friday off. It might not sound […]
День: 02.11.2015
. A Reflection on the Cultural Meanings of Female Circumcision
counter-offensive that reached the headlines of the international press.[61] The same is happening in Casamance. These campaigns are generally perceived as part of imperialistic strategies counteracting local culture and women, in particular, suspect the campaigns of being attempts to abolish the secret societies. In contrast to Western belief, excision in the context of secret societies […]
Technologies in Sex Research
Sex researchers have benefited from the development of three distinct technologies for collecting data. The first technology we will discuss—electronic devices for measuring sexual arousal—has been around for several decades. The other CHAPTER 2 technologies—computerized assessment of sexual behavior and sex research in cyberspace—are both relatively new.
South Korea
The National Human Rights Commission of Korea supported the enactment of a general antidiscrimination law covering employment and services. It set up a four year process of consultations and discussions and funded a major report on the issues by the leading lesbian organisation that was completed in 2005 (Sanders 2012). A bill was drafted by […]
WILD WOMEN
Meredith Chivers of the Center for Addiction and Mental Health and J Michael Bailey of Northwestern University exposed 18 heterosexual men and 18 heterosexual women to two films, one of human sex, the other of bonobo monkey sex. The study, published in 2005, found the men were aroused by female humans only, while the women […]
The 20th Century: Sexual Crusaders and Sexologists
In a study of 1,000 women born shortly before the turn of the 20th century, 74% used some form of contraception (despite Comstock), most made love at least once a week, and 40% acknowledged masturbating during childhood or adolescence (although others began after marriage; D’Emilio & Freedman, 1988). These statistics reflect the freedom women found […]
Assessing the likelihood. of global feminist success
In sum, despite the Soviet commitments to women’s emancipation, the new Russia was not a hospitable environment for global feminist activism. While global feminists became united in their shared interest in combating violence against women, the Soviet haphazard and parafeminist response to gender violence gave way, in the 1990s, to the privatization of gender violence, […]
The smell of the scrotum
The degree of hirsuteness and the smell of the scrotum vary — a topic that was raised as early as the 1870s in the work of the American feminist novelist and campaigner Lois Waisbrooker (1826-1909). Some of today’s racy pulp novelists, one feels, should have been made to study Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (1974) […]
Feminism and F atherhood
Child-rearing, said the German socialist leader Clara Zetkin in 1906, “must not just be the work of mothers, but the common work of parents.”99 But in the writings of feminists of the prewar era, such positive views of the father’s role were few. Indeed, campaigners for the legal right of mothers to control their children […]
The smell and taste of sperm
Women often compare the smell of sperm to plant or flower scents. Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum), St John’s wort (Hypericum perforatum), the flowers of the European barberry (Berberis vulgaris) and chestnuts all smell of sperm. The same applies to the crushed flowers of the henna plant (Lawsonia inermis). Moroccan women love rubbing them into their […]