If a woman tolerates this treatment of her fellow women, if she accepts it under the banner of ‘liberalism’ or anything else, then she must also accept that she herself is only removed from prostitution by lack of the circumstances necessary to place her there.—Rachel Moran, Paid For
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 info, including details of women’s events in Canberra and special offers for members.
EVENTS, ETC.
- Reclaim the Night
- Postnatal care in Nigeria: Does it really matter where women live?
- Feminism, literary reception, and the case of Amanda Lohrey
- The suffering of female victims and the criminalisation of gendered family and domestic violence in the Northern Territory
- Bombshell – the Hedy Lamarr story
SEXISM, MISOGYNY, HARASSMENT, PATRIARCHY, GENERAL ICKINESS
- Protesters damage ‘sexist’ open-air urinals in Paris
- Knowledge is power: sex education for women with disabilities
- Former flight attendant exposes lack of airline employee training to combat sexual misconduct
- Man dressed as woman arrested for voyeurism in Greenville bathroom
- The fight against Iran’s strict hijab rules is a fight for women’s dignity
- “Women are pushed to be just bodies – veiled under religion or veiled by makeup”: Nawal El Saadawi on feminism today
- ‘I’m tired of this’: The problem with a beer called Pussy Juice
PROSTITUTION
- Colombia rescues 49 women from ‘sexual slavery’
- An open letter on the dangers of normalizing sex dolls & sex robots
- Girls as young as 12 are victims of sex trafficking in Waterloo Region
MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- This woman is suing Victoria Police after suffering years of domestic violence
- Yellowknife RCMP jail woman after she was sexually assaulted
- Domestic abusers using internet, smart devices to spy on and control partners, women’s group says
- Philippines Duterte: Rapes will continue as long as there are ‘many beautiful women’
FROM THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please see Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC library.
- The unhappy marriage of Marxism and feminism: towards a more progressive union, Heidi I. Hartmann (jpurnal article, 1979)
- Not a Choice, Not a Job. Exposing the myths about prostitution and the global sex trade, Janice G Raymond (2013)
- Prostitution Narratives, Norma and Tankard-Reist (eds, 2018)
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