Interview with Jacqueline Rose
Feminist psychoanalytic philosopher and literary critic Jacqueline Rose had a visiting professorship at Cambridge last year which coincided with the release of her latest book, Women in Dark Times. Rose […]
Category Archives: Women
Extreme pornography and the law: it’s complicated
The status of violent and degrading pornography is changing under English law. The new legislative approach seems to be having some success, but these revisions to the statues still need […]
In Pornworld: article up at King’s Review
The porn tsunami is upon us. A multi-billion-dollar global industry, pornography is everywhere, much of it getting into the hands of children and threatening to permanently rewire their attitudes toward […]
Stemming the tide of Twitter abuse
The barrage of death threats and rape threats recently tweeted to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez and Labour MP Stella Creasy – all because Criado-Perez dared to propose Jane Austen as the […]
Bully: Gillard vs the misogynists, round 196
There’s a particularly Australian kind of bully – male, laconic,* infinitely entitled. The media’s full of them. Workplaces and schools, too. Berating them doesn’t work, and neither does reason, because it’s […]
Austerity bites hard for the disabled… and for trafficked women
The UK government’s redirection of funding for the daily care of the severely disabled to overstretched local governments is a disaster in the making. An excellent comment piece by Zoe Williams […]
Drop-in centre for women affected by violence to close
The Scarlet Centre, a London drop-in advice centre for women affected by violence, is due to close on March 31st due to funding cuts. Eaves, the charity that runs the […]
