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The Politics Of Looking: How Cultural Imagery Reinforces Domestic Roles  

Berger proposed that the reason women are still depicted this way is that the painter assumes that the ‘ideal’ spectator is male, and the woman in the painting is ‘designed to flat...

The Women’s Reservation Bill Was Never Just About Women’s Empowerment

Genuine empowerment would not be women being invited to better politics, but women having the power to transform it, for everyone.  The post The Women’s Reservation Bill Was Never...

Fight for empowering women stalled due to selfish politics of oppn: PM Modi

MODERN POLITICS- The Politics Behind Women’s Reservation

MODERN POLITICSWho Controls the Narrative? The Politics Behind Women’s ReservationThe debate around women’s reservation in India is no longer about whether women deserve representa...

Feminism is subversive, destructive and unfair – so why do we bother?

WOMEN have reached the highest levels in politics, commerce and the professions. Yet according to Robert Oulds in his new book The Biorealist Manifesto, feminisation of the economy...

Indian Political Parties Go All Out to Court Women in Assembly Elections

With women comprising around half the electorate, politicians have promised them direct cash transfers and gas cylinders. Will it impact how women vote?

The Socialist Misogyny: On The Portrayal Of Women Characters In Socialist Hindi Cinema

The socialist 'angry young man' established himself as a new kind of feudal lord. As revolutionary as these films may seem to be at first glance, they are hollow when it comes to g...

Feminismus: Amthor: Frauen in politischer Debatte zu oft herabgewürdigt

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Are Westminster Politicians Taking Misogyny Seriously Enough?

Are politicians doing enough to address misogyny?There’s no denying that misogyny has been a hot topic in Westminster in recent months.Politicians have not been shy when it comes t...

Tamil Nadu Election Series: Where Manifestos Compete For Women Voters

Election season in Tamil Nadu is rarely a quiet exercise. Perhaps it is more an amalgamation of theatre, economics, and social negotiation. With only 10 days remaining before polli...

Meet the 'femosphere': Angry young women who love to hate men

"Family Guy" does a spoof of "Return of the Jedi" that always makes me laugh. The characters travel the universe to meet with Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma, who they are surpris...

Performatief feminisme belemmert deelname mannen aan de genderstrijd

Parties Yet To Walk The Talk On Women’s Reservation In Politics

First introduced in 1996 and widely supported across party lines, the legislation to ensure 33 per cent reservation for women in politics took 27 long years to be passed by Parliam...

Myth Of Gender Supremacy

In India, we are heavily under the influence of stereotypical social standards constantly dictating what men are "supposed" to do and what women "should" do. We witness a rigid pat...

Women's Reservation push: Govt 'masterstroke' or political gambit before polls?

Women's Reservation push: Govt 'masterstroke' or political gambit before polls?

A Seat At The Table, But No Power To Speak

Recognition Without Redistribution: Women’s Reservation in the Shadow of DelimitationIf one were to read the Women’s Reservation Bill through the lens of Nancy Fraser, the fault li...

‘PATRIARCHY’: Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s Head-Scratching Response to Ousters of Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, suggested that the “patriarchy” was behind the recent ousters of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem... Read M...

[Insider] Why Gender Equality is Stalling Under Japan’s First Female Prime Minister

Japan finally has its first female Prime Minister. But that isn't translating into victories for ordinary Japanese women.

Forget the ‘Manosphere’—The ‘Meno-Sphere’ Is the Voting Bloc With Real Power

A recent report from centrist think tank Third Way predicts many of the “swingy, moderate, low-propensity young men” who supported Trump will sit out the midterms this year. So who...

Womanhood And Love Are Political: An Analysis Of Srishti Chaudhary’s Lallan Sweets

What Lallan Sweets depicts excellently is the deconditioning of the patriarchal consciousness that women are trapped by, which keeps them from choosing themselves or putting themse...

Miranda Devine: The left is weaponizing women’s misplaced empathy — and it threatens all of us

Women’s nurturing instincts have been turned into weapons of political warfare, especially on the left. 

Left Is Weaponizing Women's Misplaced Empathy

Women's nurturing instincts have been turned into weapons of political warfare, especially on the left.A

Labour has never had a female leader because ‘it’s a bit sexist’, says Jess Phillips

However, former minister tells Hay festival ‘the idea that a woman leads and it makes it better for women is not one I’ve recognised in this country’The Labour MP Jess Phillips has...

Partnership Systems, Feminism, and the Persistence of Domination

“They internalize a template that equates difference with superior and inferior.” The post Partnership Systems, Feminism, and the Persistence of Domination appeared first on The Go...