Monthly Archives: November 2004
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Feministing will be away for the remainder of the day, due to the holiday. Enjoy your day and we’ll catch y’all tomorrow!
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A Gay Movie Hero? NEVER!
There’s been quite a bit of buzz going around about Oliver Stone’s newest film, “Alexander.” The New York Times wrote a piece on it this week, and Stone’s portrayal of the fourth-century Macedonian victor, Alexander The Great, as being in love with a man. Although Alexander (played by my Irish lover, Colin Farrell) is married, [...]
Afghan women protest gender-based violence
Hundreds of Afghan women rallied today in Kabul to bring attention to violence against women. The women demonstrators prepared a 12-article resolution addressing, among other issues, the elimination of violence against women, gender-based discrimination, and the creation of programs to prevent and combat violence against women. Wulanga Saafi, a senior civil servant at the Ministry [...]
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FEMINISMS WITHOUT BORDERS: DECOLONIZING THEORY, PRACTICING SOLIDARITY by Chandra Talpade Mohanty (Duke University Press, January 2003) Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s “Feminisms Without Borders” is an exceptional analysis of various critical issues that exist within contemporary feminism. Of these, she uses three main themes to confront these issues: the decolonization of feminism, an anti-capitalist analysis, and the [...]
Lactate With A Latte, Part II