Tag: feminism
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Poland’s likely withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, and violence against women: an interview with Gals4Gals Łódź
PODCAST CN: this podcast episode contains discussion of homophobia, transphobia and misogyny. As Poland’s government comes one step closer to achieving its stated goal of withdrawing from the Istanbul Convention, Politika News speaks to Gals4Gals Łódź. Last year, the feminist movement organised the city’s largest protest since the hunger demonstrations of 1981, against the government’s […]
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The Murder of Mary Ashford: an interview with women’s history writer, Naomi Clifford
INTERVIEW The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime that Changed English Legal History explores the true story of servant, Mary Ashford, from Erdington, who was raped and murdered by Abraham Thornton, whom she had met at a local party. The case stands out in the way it galvanised a group of influential middle-class men, under […]
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Abolishing the family and obtaining gestational justice: an interview with Sophie Lewis
INTERVIEW Sophie Lewis is a feminist theorist, scholar, and author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, which argues for the abolition of the nuclear family as we know it, and against the long-accepted status quo of pregnancy, which sees 300,000 women die a year during childbirth (World Health Organisation). “What other workplace or industry […]
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