Men have singled out women of outstanding merit and put them on a pedestal to avoid recognising the capabilities of all women.— Huda Sha’arawi
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) or to sign up for our mailing list.
EVENTS, ETC.
- In conversation with Gillian Triggs
- 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
- Tanzania’s president says women using birth control are too ‘lazy’ to feed a family
- The female price of male pleasure
- ‘Despicable’: blogger must do 200 hours community service for defacing memorial to slain comedian
- Sexual assault and harassment linked to health problems in middle-aged women
- How ‘hostile sexism’ came to shape our politics
- China’s women-only subway cars, where men rush in
PORNOGRAPHY
- Sexual violence and non-consensual sex rising due to porn, finds survey
- Kanye West debuts bizarre new song and clothing line at the Pornhub awards
- Nepal blocks porn sites after spate of sexual assaults
PROSTITUTION
- The underbelly of the sex-trade industry
- Italy’s first sex doll brothel is raided by police and shut down just nine days after opening amid fears dolls were not cleaned properly after each use
MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- School staff failed to stop six-year-old playground rapes
- Toronto man pleads not guilty to sexually assaulting university student and live-streaming her naked and vomiting
- Man who strangled woman during sex given 29-year jail term
- Steam approves game promoting sexual harassment and abuse
- Tarang Chawla: How many more women & children need to die before our leaders step up?
- Scandal of 260 rapists who struck again after being released from jail early – attacking one woman every week
FROM THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please see Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC library.
- Rage Becomes Her. The power of women’s anger, Saraya Chemaly (2018)
- Boys Will Be Boys. An exploration of power, patriarchy and the toxic bonds of mateship, Clementine Ford (2018)
- The Word of a Woman. Feminist dispatches 1968-1992, Robin Morgan (1992)
