Archive for September 2008
That Dark Knock
September 25, 2008 | 
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Sitting down at a networking lunch recently, I found myself chatting to a delightful local artist. When she found out that I was a freelance writer, Donna asked if I had ever researched or written about female depression. Now writing about depression isn’t very sexy. After all, isn’t this blog supposed to be about empowering women?
Princesses or Pornstars?
What’s it like being a young woman today? Feminists won the equal rights war back in the 70s, and young women today have it so much easier than their mothers, right? Wrong, argues Emily Maguire in her new book Princesses or Pornstars?
Posted in Women, Inspiration and Personal Development | 
Tags: Advertising For Girls, Elevation, Emily Maguire, Feminism, Generation Skank, Maggie Hamilton, Parenting Teenage Girls, Paris Hilton, Princesses or Pornstars, Rebecca Thomson, Role Models, Self-esteem Young Women, Teenage Girls, What's Happening To Our Girls?, Young Women, Young Women's Sexuality | 
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Women and Literature
It is a regular Sunday afternoon in Brisbane and 8 women are gathered in Newstead Park for their monthly book group meeting. The group has just read Veronica Decides to Die by Paul Coelho and are gathering to discuss the book and its merits. They are surrounded by trees, beautiful weather and the table is full of wine, cheeses and assorted other treats. What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon? In terms of female bonding, women joining book groups has become an increasing trend, not only here in Brisbane but throughout Australia. For many years book groups were seen as high brow, literary affairs that to the quiet observer seemed fairly intimidating. It was an activity that only literary people might participate in and unless you were very well-read and had a particularly expansive vocabulary, you may feel a little dippy attending such an event.
