Salvaging what's left after the masses have had their feed
Through the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, arguments for nature or nurture as the primary explanations for human behaviour have swung back and forth like a pendulum. Rosalie Scolari looks at their impact on gender and sexuality.
Research into sex work is too heavily skewed towards examining the childhoods of sex workers, with questions about whether they were sexually abused as children too often being the focus. This ignores the elephant in the room: financial considerations and motivation. Most sex workers who choose to be in the industry are there for the money, not because they need the sex, writes Jo Weldon.
For the majority of women who haven't made men-friendly choices and followed the post-modern route of university-marriage-kids, equality still doesn't exist, and feminists have become a woman’s worst enemy, writes Lou LaRoche.
When Julia Gillard became Australia’s first female Prime Minister this week, feminists couldn’t contain their joy. But while Gillard’s appointment is a milestone in Australian history, the glass ceiling is far from being shattered, writes Sophie Trevitt.
Raunch culture continues to polarise feminists, but the pornification of society isn’t the problem, it’s the lack of diversity in what’s considered beautiful or sexy, writes Katrina Fox.
Marketing demands and an underlying thread of sexism in the publishing industry work together to trivialize literature written by women, writes Courtney Young.
Debates about prohibiting the wearing of the burqa (or niqab) have raged in France, Belgium, Holland – and most recently in Australia. Sara Haghdoosti explains why the arguments used to justify such bans don’t measure up.
Only when men participate equally in the care of young children will sexism be modified. Otherwise, men tend to see all women as the all-powerful mother of infancy, writes Mary Koch.
What you see is what you get. Or is it? When it comes to the black body, especially the black male body, more often than not the images we’ve been force-fed have no bearing at all on reality. The danger in this is the high level of influence these images have on our perceptions, expectations, and prejudices: people are inclined to believe that what they see is what exists, writes Hill Harper.
Why are women of color not being represented in the fashion industry’s current push to include plus-size models? Tasha Fierce examines black female fatness and says it’s about time we embraced a diverse range of models.
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