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A deeply contested demand
One of the fascinating aspects of Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, are the reflections on what has been achieved over the last few decades. Liz...
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Fifty Shades yet again
On my continuing journey through Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach, I have just come across a new highlight. It’s Susie Orbach’s contribution,...
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Most crucial in private
Interesting thoughts on feminism in public and in private: As a feminist, I’ve always felt that feminism is most crucial in private. In public, there are always people (men and women) to reason and...
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I should have been a writer
There are some truly sad anecdotes in Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach. Muneeza Shamsie, for instance, in ‘The Words of Women’, reflects on her...
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The subordination from inside ourselves
Here’s another thought-provoking little snippet from Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach. In ‘When It Started for Me’, Gillian Slovo notes that, in the...
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One key difference between the sexes
In his new book Levels of Life, which, among other things, is about the beginnings of photography, Julian Barnes comments on ‘one key difference between the sexes’: when a couple who had been jointly...
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A terribly and sadly ironic Christian tradition
Commenting on Ephesians 5:22-33, John Dominic Crossan notes: What is most striking about these instructions … is their mutuality and reciprocity. We seem to have spent much more Christian time debating...
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Stories
Stories. Mostly, as it happens, women’s stories. One writes: ‘When I was forty-one I lost the ability to read. … I was trying to get myself and my two children free of a husband I had been with for...
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Most crucial in private
Interesting thoughts on feminism in public and in private: As a feminist, I’ve always felt that feminism is most crucial in private. In public, there are always people (men and women) to reason and...
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I should have been a writer
There are some truly sad anecdotes in Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach. Muneeza Shamsie, for instance, in ‘The Words of Women’, reflects on her...
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The subordination from inside ourselves
Here’s another thought-provoking little snippet from Fifty Shades of Feminism, edited by Lisa Appignanesi, Rachel Holmes and Susie Orbach. In ‘When It Started for Me’, Gillian Slovo notes that, in the...
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One key difference between the sexes
In his new book Levels of Life, which, among other things, is about the beginnings of photography, Julian Barnes comments on ‘one key difference between the sexes’: when a couple who had been jointly...
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Women (according to Mary)
Women come off pretty badly in Christianity. Through Original Sin they are held responsible for everything in the world since the Garden of Eden. Women are weak, unclean, condemned to bear children in...
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