Next Friday my Students’ Union will host a ‘Playboy Mansion’ themed club night. Over the past few weeks at what is still quite a new University for me I have been more and more bothered by the sexualised atmosphere promoted by the union’s venues. But, with my attentions largely elsewhere (on job cuts, the fact that [...]
An online site advertising prostitutes received an unexpected boost from the minister for women and equality this week – is all publicity good publicity? On the final day of the Labour party conference Harriet Harman gave a rousing speech where she attacked businesses that exploit women. Chief among her targets was a website called Punter [...]
Sunny Hundal, in a piece for The Guardian yesterday, made the case that we cannot give up on Afghanistan. It was, he says, unreasonable to expect the overthrow of the Taliban might come without British casualties or that we could secure positive social change in Afghanistan overnight. In and of themselves, these points are very [...]
Today the Observer published an extremely alarming report that Dr Denis Walsh, “one of the countries most influential midwives,” has argued that women should be receiving less pain relief in child-birth, in favour of “yoga, hypnosis, massage, support from their partners, hydrotherapy and birthing pools as natural ways of alleviating their pain.” Walsh mixes up [...]
Sorry for a slightly navel gazing post. Recently, a number of people I have spoken to have told me in no uncertain terms that while they enjoy The Third Estate, they find it somewhat problematic (or worse) that we have no female bloggers. The result, I am told, is an obvious lack of female perspectives. [...]
