Apart from stuff, that is?<\/p>\n
Naturally, a series of links. To begin with, some on the subject of feminism. And gate-keeping. <\/p>\n
Prompted by Melinda Tankard Reist’s legal spat<\/a> with blogger Jennifer Wilson, Eva Cox writes ‘Feminism, not religion’ is at the heart of the controversy. She also asks ‘Who decides who gets to use the f-word’ (‘Call Me Whatever The Hell You Want’<\/a>, New Matilda, January 18, 2012; Helen Pringle disputes Cox’s characterisation of feminist politics in ‘Killjoys, Wowsers And The P-rn Wars’<\/a>).<\/p>\n I propose I<\/em> decide who gets to use the f-word.<\/p>\n Or Virginia Trioli<\/a> maybe.<\/p>\n I mean, she wrote the book on it yeah<\/a>?<\/p>\n Whatever.<\/p>\n \u2018Enough ink has been spilled in quarrelling over feminism \u2026 perhaps we should say no more about it\u2019: Simone de Beauvoir, at the very beginning of The Second Sex<\/em> (1949). \u2018The subject is irritating, especially to women.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n And how.<\/p>\n Jenny Turner examines contemporary UK feminist fashions in ‘As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes’<\/a> (London Review of Books<\/em>, December 15, 2011). It’s a pretty caustic affair:<\/p>\n And as for feminist blogging, isn\u2019t it just one of those back-bedroom hobbies, like home-made porn and crafting, that suddenly becomes visible because the technology allows it? (Zadie Smith on \u2018the great tide of pornography\u2019 in 2001: \u2018It\u2019s not all bad news. We\u2019re talking women whose sexual desires are no longer sublimated into the making of quilts.\u2019)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Speaking of which, there’s a NEW! feminist blog called RAW \/ ROAR: “Left and feminist writing about politics by Australian women, collected in the one place.” The most recent post — A Cosmopolitan Morality<\/a> by Tammois (January 18, 2012) — concerns MTR, feminism and religion; The Dawn Chorus<\/a> is another feminist group blog but it ain’t done published nothin’ since January 2011. Otherwise, Hoyden About Town<\/a> continues to trundle along the information superhighway propagating a peculiar brand of Godless hedonism, while Down Under Feminists’ Carnival<\/a> “is a monthly collection of blog posts of feminist interest from around New Zealand and Australia”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apart from stuff, that is? Naturally, a series of links. To begin with, some on the subject of feminism. And gate-keeping. Prompted by Melinda Tankard Reist’s legal spat with blogger Jennifer Wilson, Eva Cox writes ‘Feminism, not religion’ is at … Continue reading