http://www.agendered.com Tilting an enquiring feminist lens at the Oxford world Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:56:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Credit: Barbara Kruger; Source: http://templeofhera.blogspot.com/2009/02/your-body-is-battleground.html Many women are feminists. Most people have several feminist friends. For readers of this site, perhaps the vast majority of your friends are feminist. I probably know at least a dozen women who would self-identify as feminist. Yet, I don’t know a single one who doesn’t, ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/1027 I love feminism because she's the rebel of the class, the one that makes a farce of all those sexists seeking stars.      Whilst teacher Liberalism stands preaching untoward, scratching black and white messages on his 2D board, feminism swings on her chair and raises her hand, a girl full ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/980 The Guardian reports that HIV-positive women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent. The International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS is bringing a lawsuit against the Namibian government, and cases have been reported in Zambia, South Africa and Democratic Republic of Congo. Fine state of affairs, huh? For eight ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/970 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. Britney Spears has been quoted saying she hates her feet. ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/960 St Anne's College has just voted in a "white hetrosexual male rep" to serve on their formal student body. Andrew Lowe stood on a platform that would replace the college creche with a finishing school, ban women from the library and save money by getting female students to serve in ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/951 I’m past caring what the last week has done to Gordon Brown and the Labour Party. But I’m terrified about what it’s done to women in politics. The last seven days have seen four female ministers resign from the cabinet, leaving Westminster’s most powerful inner-circle grossly unrepresentative. Worries deepened when ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/945 News of Alice Munro's Man Booker International prize win is cause for celebration. Not just because she's a woman but because she has relentlessly followed her muse. In terms of publishing she has done everything wrong. She writes short stories. Worse, she writes regional short stories, based mostly in the ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/934 After just nine days in post, the only woman to hold the Oxford Professorship of Poetry in its three hundred year history has stood down. Ruth Padel’s resignation is a sad and confusing event for feminists inside and outside the Oxbridge bubble. On the one hand, we know that sexual ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/932 I was surprised to see a double-page British Army recruitment advertorial in Closer magazine, chirping: "If you want an interesting and diverse job, plus the chance to travel and get physically fit, visit our [website]". Aimed at men this would be disingenuous, but mostly harmless, nonsense (the Army exists to ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/865 I've been told from the start of my degree that the Oxford English course encourages and rewards 'writing like a boy'. That I should suppress my girly girls' school caution, precision and 'smoothness' in favour of a more brash, brutal - and, ultimately, interesting - critical style. This advice is patronising ... http://www.agendered.com/archives/858