Women’s bodies don’t really belong to them. That goes double for the poor, women of colour, HIV positive women and any other group that society can single out as less than “normal”.

There appears to be an unwritten rule of women’s magazine journalism that states no matter how staggeringly, jaw-splittingly, super-humanly attractive a female interviewee is there must be at least one conversation between subject and journalist about the subject’s (imaginary) flaws.

[ May 13, 2009; 19:30 to 21:30. 19:30 to 21:30. 19:30 to 21:30. 19:30 to 21:30. ] “Sex and the Cinema” is a series of film screenings which explore issues of sex and gender, followed by a discussion (no academic knowledge required!). These screenings are also completely FREE.

[ May 2, 2009; 17:00 to 20:00. ] An informal Q&A between women who are, were or want to be involved in student politics in Oxford

[ May 2, 2009; 20:00 to 22:00. ] To what extent is it possible for scientific research about gender and sexuality to be neutral and divorced from broader social attitudes and assumptions? Are the claims of science about gender opposed to those of queer theory, or are they asking different questions? To what extent should “the natural world” tell us what should and shouldn’t be sexually permissible? And what are the real life consequences of these differing views on gender?

These are only some of the questions that we will be discussing at our first meeting of Trinity term.

It is entirely possible to dress well without being a slave to fashion. Men manage. We should give it a try. I have a sneaking suspicion money in the bank is more empowering than an extra pair of Manolos.

It sticks in my craw that when, according to Home Office research, up to 85,000 women are raped in the UK each year the Daily Mail comes out and says men are the REAL victims.

The Independent reports, Chacon has committed a terrible “gaffe”…. Anything a woman does or says can and will be used against her in the court of public opinion. The more powerful that woman is the more vicious and hateful her detractors will be. Male politicians have been cocking things up since the beginning of time, yet they carry on.

[ March 12, 2009; 15:30 to 17:00. ] Sponsored by the INTERNATIONAL GENDER STUDIES CENTRE

[ March 6, 2009; 18:00 to 19:30. ] Gender and the Media, Friday 6th March, 6 to 7:30 PM, Wadham College