Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically in Egypt. But here it is done psychologically and by education. So even if women have the clitoris, the clitoris was banned; it was removed by Freudian theory and by the mainstream culture.― Nawal El Saadawi
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.
- Elizabeth Kleinhelz on Germaine Greer
- Reclaim the Night
- Author talk: Unfettered and Alive: A Memoir, Anne Summers
SEXISM, MISOGYNY, HARASSMENT, PATRIARCHY, GENERAL ICKINESS
- Conditions worsen for refugee women in Greece
- Amazon reportedly scraps internal AI recruiting tool that was biased against women
- Sexual harassment must be prohibited under industrial law to drive real workplace change
- Survey of 20,000 young women uncovers real impact of harassment and abuse in cities
- Female Nobel prize winner deemed not important enough for Wikipedia entry
- Incarcerated women are punished much, much more than men
PORNOGRAPHY
PROSTITUTION
- Amnesty International expels member for standing against prostitution
- Immigration violations, possible sex trafficking found at Nevada brothels
MALE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
- She was a teenage victim of domestic violence and rape. She sought help. This week, Iran executed her
- Eight women killed in ten days in Australia: Domestic violence remains deadly
IN THE WAAC LIBRARY
Please see Megan to borrow a book from the WAAC library.
- Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking? Cho, Dreher, and Neumeyer (journal article, 2013)
