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A Call for Young Women to Get Mad
"As I look around me, to my generation, I feel disillusioned and alone.......There is not much feminism out there. Porn is chic. S/M is sex. "Buffy the vampire slayer" is a feminist icon, and young women have girl power to improve their lives. Bad girls, sluts and porn stars are the new elite, the 'new girl order'......"
Third-Wave, RiotGrrls - is this as good as it gets for young women? Not likely says Delanie Woodlock
Football, meat pies, kangaroos & Holden cars
-Masculinity in Crisis?
From Coffs Harbour motels, to tyke primary schools, it seems aussie men are having difficulties in giving women a Fair Go and Fair Play. Perhaps some sound fashion advice may be the solution to Aussie men's masculinity crisis?
Split Ends, Broken Nails and Scattered Thoughts, from FemSpeak's armchair feminist, Bimbo
Lest We Forget
'War is the murder of women and children.' Reta Kaur (Women for Peace)
'Go back to where you came from you old hag.' Bruce Ruxton (former President of the RSL)
Remembrance Day, 11 November, 2002.
As Australia approaches another ANZAC Day, some thoughts on women and war from Clair MacDougall
Gender Identity Disorder (GID): Fact or Fiction?
In the recent court decision allowing FTM sex-change treatments for a 13-year old girl based on a diagnosis of GID, is this a case of appropriate treatment for a real condition, or a violation of a child's human rights? Opinion piece by Sheila Jeffreys
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Reading Room
- ..Fiction
- Short stories online
- Brides and Maids
.. Liz & Penny had been best friends all their lives, but Liz had gone the city career track & Penny returned to their home-town. Now, Penny - 40, pregnant & getting married - asks Liz to be bridesmaid, challenging the meaning of being "best friends"...
- 'Unexpected Tide' - Jennifer Bannan
It had been more than twenty-four hours since her abortion and the only human contact she’d experienced had been with the bell-hop: hello—thank you—goodbye.
- Novels - Reviews
- Holdfast Chronicles - Suzy McKee Charnas
Timeless classic story of the ultimate 'War to End All Wars' - The War of the Sexes. Speculative social commentary science-fiction story in a future post-holocaust Earth, and tells the story of women's long struggle from slavery to freedom, from war to peace.
Featured by FemSpeak
- 'Stoner McTavish' - Sarah Dreher
Popular B-grade lesbian crime mystery -- Stoner is an accidental detective, one who …. blunders through her mystery…with earnestness, a frequently battered sense of propriety, sheer stubbornness, and a soft heart… reviewed by Rae
Events
Movies
Osama. The British 'The F-Word' online magazine's reviews by Tamlyn Monson and Laura Wirtz of Barmak’s story of an Afghani family forced to reverse gender roles under the Taliban.
Alexandra's Project
Marriage as a prison, but is it of our own making? Feature by FemSpeak
Kill Bill - Volume 1
Quenton Tarantino has a reputation for extremes of violence in film-making, but does Kill Bill deserve the reputation? Feature by FemSpeak
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