The death of writer and activist Nawal el Saadawi has just been announced. In 2011 Tess Woodcraft interviewed her at a conference organised by the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Right Organisation for Pod Academy.
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A children’s story raises the profound questions of female oppression and sexism
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The possession of pornography depicting rape is now illegal in the UK as the result of campaigns by women’s organisations and academic lawyers.
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“Nature has been defined as a woman, and both nature and women were then defined into objectification and therefore into objects of violence. Ecofeminism is a celebration of the creativity of nature and the creativity of women,” says Dr Vandana Shiva, world…
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More and more women are going into the law as solicitors, barristers, legal executives and academics. Two women barristers talk about how their feminism informs their legal practice.
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Three weeks ago, well-known feminist gaming critic Anita Sarkeesian was forced to leave her San Francisco home due to an ongoing tirade of abuse and threats. Members of a vocal minority of online trolls had threatened to kill her parents, drink her…
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The Spanish government wants to turn back the clock on abortion rights in Spain, where currently women have a right to decide whether or not to continue a pregnancy up to 14 weeks. But there is a growing campaign by…
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Cambridge students were asked to say why they need feminism. Take a look at the answers on this blog. Brilliant! And here are a couple of other pictures from the campaign – there are lots more….
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Most judges are men, and although they would consider themselves to be neutral, feminists are increasingly concerned that their judgments are underpinned by a male view of the world. So a group of lawyers has rewritten some important legal judgments from a feminist perspective. …
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