Posts by Deborah
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Emma Hart,
The only universal tip I think of right now is “warm your hands up first”.
Not necessarily.... depending.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Yamis,
I've had that experience in university teaching too: a year where I have a seriously good class, and then a year in which the students are fine, but somehow just not firing along in the way that the previous class did. Sometimes it seems to be just a matter of having three or four talkative and informed people in the class who inspire everyone else.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Paul Barker,
Great to hear about your school and your teaching career, Paul. And welcome!
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Hard News: Women and their representations, in reply to Hilary Stace,
It's Cat Pausé (pronounced paus-eh), which is still incredibly cool. As is Cat! Her blog is here: Friend of Marilyn, and she has a tumblr too, also called Friend of Marilyn.
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A lot of the body policing also happens in movies and on TV, where only certain types of bodies get shown.
I think that there’s something to be said about the kyriarchy (patterns of lordship and dominance that structure our societies i.e. roughly the patriarchy, but using a term that acknowledges the interweaving patterns of dominance – class, sex, gender, sexuality, race, ability/disability – rather than focusing on just one aspect of dominance). Kyriarchy is pervaisve, and hard to escape, and we’re soaking in it. I don’t buy “women’s magazines” for precisely the reason that they are full of body-policing (breaking down the kyriarchy, one step at a time), but it really pisses me off when the “lifestyle” section in my daily newspaper starts in on the body policing as well.
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Not quite sure what you mean by "afford".
Time to get children to a school that's further away. Even more time if one child would be better off at one school, and another child would be better off at a different school.
Or ability to afford a house in the relevant school zone, if you happen to live in a town or city where zoning is strictly enforced, for whatever reason.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Ross Mason,
I would have thought that we might have changed a little in the last 28 years. And even going back 28 years, it's not clear that it was *writing* about sex that led to the assault.
Even so, sitting in my armchair and speculating (that's code for saying that I have done no research whatsoever), it does seem to me to be plausible to suggest that it might be in a sense more permissable for straight cis women to blog about sex and sexuality than it is for straight cis men to blog about sex and sexuality. But I don't really know, and perhaps it's a topic for another day and another thread.
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Hard News: Media7 will soon be Media3, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Absolutely. But I don’t think we will get past tokenism by just letting things be. I have things to say about that but (a) I really need to go and do my paid work and (b) I might leave it for tomorrow, per mine host’s request.
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Hmmm.... I have noticed the gender balance on Media7, and on other media - The Panel on Radio NZ is none too flash when it comes to diversity. It's not great.
It makes me think a little of the gendered conference campaign being run by Feminist Philosophers. (un)Surprisingly, it turns out that when it comes to philsopophy, the experts are always and everywhere male, so there's an astonishing number of all-male line-ups at conferences. Since drawing attention to the problem, and suggesting ways for getting more women on panels, the gender diversity at philsophy conferences has started to improve. But it has taken a concerted effort: writing to conference organisers to point out that they have a severe gender imbalance; developing lists of speakers; suggesting women who would be good speakers; pointing out that given the gendered nature of caring it may be necessary to help a woman with childcare. Some organisers hae been defensive and resistant, because afterall, they are fair minded, logical, impartial thinkers and it just so happens that all the best philosophers are male. Riiiiiiiiggghhhhttttt.
On the other hand, I have been invited to appear on Media7 twice. Once I turned it down, because I was not prepared to hold myself out as an expert in that area, and the childcare issues would have been ... frantic. Details here, if you're interested. Once I was able to get there, and it was great fun. On the gripping hand, it won't change unless a concerted effort is made to change it.
I suppose I feel a little discouraged about the presence of women in the meda and commentariat. The Herald On Sunday has just dropped Deborah Coddington, and replaced her with Rodney Hide, so that the Sunday line-up is now almost exclusively male. The weekday Herald is much better. OTOH the Dom Post is lacking in women's voices: I can think of only two female columnists - Rosemary McLeod and Tracey Watkins - 'though there may be more.
An astonishing statistic came out of the US recenty: even on issues that are regarded as women's issues such as abortion and birth control, men are quoted around five times more than women. It all goes to show who is regarded as authoritative, and who is not.
A topic for a Media 3 episode, perhaps?
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This is great news, Russell. Fantastic.