Posts Tagged ‘Feminism’
Bring sexy back
July 2, 2009 | 
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‘Sexy has almost become extinct for the average working woman,’ says Janelle Manton, director of Top Secret Women’s Business.
‘Women have become very masculine in their efforts to keep up with our demanding lifestyles and self-imposed standards.’
What went wrong?
Feminism is now a dirty word. A male friend remarked recently on the current demise of feminism, “Young women don’t understand how tough it was back in my mother’s day. She couldn’t even open a bank account without dad’s signature and if a woman wanted a drink at the local pub, her husband would bring a beer out to her in the car park, because she was not allowed to go in.”
Posted in Women, Inspiration and Personal Development | 
Tags: Australian Feminism, Betty Friedan, Domestic Voilence, Dr Jandice Shaw Crouse, Equal Rights, Feminism, Generation X, History of Feminism, Paid Maternity Leave, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Harrassment, The Feminine Mystique, Virginia Haussegger, Wonder Woman: The myth of having it all | 
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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 | 12 Comments »
