When pornography is… normal, a whole population of men is primed to dehumanise women and to enjoy inflicting assault sexually… Pornography is the perfect preparation – motivator and instruction manual in one – for… sexual atrocities.― Catharine MacKinnon, Ms., July/Aug 1993, p.28
Here are some items from the latest edition of The Loop, the newsletter of the Women’s Action Alliance Canberra. Email women@womensactionalliance.org for more goodies, including details of women’s events in Canberra and special offers for members.
SEXISM, MISOGYNY, HARASSMENT
- Proposal for one-piece swimsuit emoji draws fierce blowback from male coders
- Cricket Australia sacks worker over series of tweets about abortion
- “Young men should be furious”: inside the world’s largest gathering of men’s rights activists
PROSTITUTION
- The Bangladesh brothels where men pay child brides for sex – while police look the other way
- Human trafficking: 150 child slave victims identified in Wales
PATRIARCHY
- Unhappy marriage not grounds for divorce, supreme court rules
- 10-year-old girl bleeds to death after female genital mutilation in Somalia
- Why don’t we consider violence against women and girls terrorism?
- Tokyo medical school ‘changed test scores to keep women out’
PORNOGRAPHY
MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- A mother’s impossible choice: risk rape to feed your family, or starve
- Australian femicide map: Shock stats show true extent of violence
- ‘I didn’t want this to be a taboo’: the fight for Kosovan women raped during the war
FROM THE WAAC BLOG
NEW IN THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please see Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC library. Loans are made for a period of one month on the condition that if the book is lost, damaged, or not returned, you will pay for a replacement.
- The Hite Report. A nationwide study of female sexuality, Shere Hite (1976)
- The Right Amount of Panic. How women trade freedom for safety, Fiona Vera-Gray (2018)
- Surrogacy. A human rights violation, Renate Klein (2017)
- The porn harms kids report (2017)
- The rise of neoliberal feminism, Catherine Rottenberg (2014, journal article)
- Pornography as a public health issue, hard copies available at next WAAC meeting
