Tag: feminism
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Afghan women need global support, not feminism lessons
[ad_1] Two years after the chaotic departure of US forces and the Taliban takeover — and despite the latest devastating earthquake in the west of the country — Afghanistan has all but disappeared from the global headlines. Other crisis, including Russia’s war in Ukraine and now the escalation in Israel-Palestine violence, obscure the rare references…
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Alice Shalvi, Hailed as a Mother of Feminism in Israel, Dies at 96
[ad_1] Alice Hildegard Margulies was born on Oct. 16, 1926, in Essen, the industrial city in western Germany, the youngest of three children of Benzion and Perl Margulies, who were first cousins. Her parents owned a wholesale business selling linens and cutlery. Theirs was a cultured home, filled with music and literature, infused by her…
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As China Censors Homegrown Feminism, a Feminist Scholar From Japan Is on Its Bestseller Lists – The Diplomat
[ad_1] Advertisement In the last few years, China’s government has promoted increasingly conservative social values, encouraging women to focus on raising children. It has cracked down on civil society movements and made laws to drive out foreign influence. So a 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is an unlikely…
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Gender-based violence and feminism in Romania, a 20-year struggle
[ad_1] A 2016 study that surveyed gender-based violence across European Union member states revealed that 55 percent of Romanians, both men and women, consider non-consenual sexual contact justified in certain situations. For 30 percent of these respondents, rape was justified when the woman was in a group that had used drugs and alcohol, while for…
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Lea Vajsova: ‘There is a new wave of feminism in Bulgaria’
[ad_1] Lea Vajsova is an assistant professor at the University of Sofia, specialising in sociology. She is interested in critical theory and social movements, and is a member of the leftist feminist collective LevFem. Vladimir Mitev: How has the state of women’s rights in Bulgaria developed over recent years? It seems to me that whatever…
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How Barbie is reigniting discussion in China about feminism and women’s rights
[ad_1] But Barbie, which entered the Chinese market under a strict quota for foreign movies and movie censorship imposed by film regulators, has seen discussion around the film and its themes gain momentum. At the heart of that discussion is the film’s presentation of toxic masculinity and its support of feminism. 04:14 Pink could be…