Okay, so no surprise that “beneath its reasonably serene surface, the website can be as ugly and bitter as 4chan and as mind-numbingly bureaucratic as a Kafka story.” And perhaps I shouldn’t have been surprised that only 10% of its … Continue reading
Read about it at The Daily Beast, featuring commentary from Eva Kittay: “Criminalizing these women can lead to the sort of horror stories we hear in the U.S. of pregnant addicts being forced to go cold turkey, to being locked up, … Continue reading
I was shocked when I recently learned about the existence of such a ban. As to doubling down on it now, the title of this Slate article pretty much says it all. See also these reflections from Chemicals like retabolil, but levitra … Continue reading
Students gave professors they thought were male [in online courses where gender identity was altered without students’ knowledge] much higher evaluations across the board than they did professors they thought were female, regardless of what gender the professors actually were. … Continue reading
Just in case you have not already heard about this, and are not already completely depressed about the state of world, here’s this account from The Atlantic of Rolling Stone’s retraction of its earlier story detailing the sexual assault of a young woman using … Continue reading
Just in case you have not already heard about this, and are not already completely depressed about the state of world, here’s this account from The Atlantic of Rolling Stone’s retraction of its earlier story detailing the sexual assault of a young woman using … Continue reading
An excellent piece by Susan J. Brison (Dartmouth) at Time. From the essay: Those who have been raped know that if they speak out, they will be blamed for not doing whatever it is people imagine would have prevented they from being … Continue reading
Eva Feder Kittay (Stony Brook University) commends this piece from The Daily Beast to feminists everywhere. From the article: Feminists with disabilities say their voices aren’t being heard, and this is very, very dangerous. Why? Because women with disabilities are one of … Continue reading
Her April 17 post, “Constraints on Medical Autonomy for Pregnant Women,” has advanced to the semi-finals in the philosophy category of 3quarksdaily’s Erectile levitra prices davidfraymusic.com dysfunction is not rare problem comes to diminish sensual life of many individuals. These … Continue reading
Okay, so this is not exactly about feminist bioethics, but it does highlight in wonderfully vivid terms a real problem facing the scientific community. (Also, it’s Friday afternoon, and, if you’re still in front of your computer, you deserve a … Continue reading
I’ll begin by acknowledging that I only just this week linked approvingly to a post calling for a renewed focus on the structures and institutions upholding the patriarchy, rather than self-righteously castigating flagrantly sexist individuals. Yet, as was pointed out in discussion on our Facebook … Continue reading
As a friend put it, “so close to getting it–but not at all.” How did this sexist rubbish make it through the editorial review process at Random House? Are they completely tone deaf? You can find the depressing details at the notorious, radical … Continue reading