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Obesity Moral Panics and the Gendered Presentation of Disordered Eating
The news here recently reported on a new study suggesting that eating disorder rates in Australia have more than doubled in the last decade, and the rates of “regular disordered eating” (that doesn’t necessarily coincide with a diagnosable eating disorder) … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Gender issues, Studies, The Beauty Myth
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Reasearch: Call for Participants
So, I’m taking a class on Iranian Society this semester, and our major assessment item is a small selected-sample study on outsider (ie, people not in Iran) perceptions of Iranian society. Given my postgraduate study plans (whilst being somewhat uncertain … Continue reading
Posted in Studies, The Internet is Serious Business
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Ability Perception and Privilege
My partner recently alerted me to a recent study which examines attribution theory; the effect of what we see as the cause of our successes or failures. As Moore indicates in his summary, the short version is that if we … Continue reading
Posted in Privilege, Studies
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I'm not going to be judgmental, I'm just judging you.
Australia’s Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, is one of my least favourite people. He’s been on an anti-abortion kick for the last few years, and the recent jewel in his attack is a government-funded pregnancy counselling hotline which allegedly aims … Continue reading
Posted in Australia, Conservative, Feminism, Politics, Reproductive Rights
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Theory Link for the Academically Inclined or Interested.
For those who may be interested in academic journals and and don’t already have access for other reasons, Sage Publications is currently offering some Free Trial Online Access, which includes free access during February to all online journal archives, and … Continue reading
Posted in Link Blogging, Science
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Childcare in Australia
So, the media here has been all over a recent report released by the Federal Treasury Department that supposedly counters years of claims that there is a childcare crisis in Australia, and claims that childcare is ‘accessible and affordable’. One … Continue reading
Blog For Choice Day – Links, and a story of my own.
So, January 22 was Blog for Choice Day, and aside from a slight gripe about the US-centrism of the choice of date (the anniversary of Roe v. Wade), talking about the importance of reproductive freedom is, well, important. And there’s … Continue reading
Feminist SF Carnival – Call for Submissions
The Ninth Feminist SF Carnival will be hosted at the League of Substitute Superheroes (part of Girl-Wonder.org). Call for submissions can be found here.
Posted in Carnivals, Blog Against -ism Days, etc.
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Self-transformation and the challenges of unpacking privilege
[Hi everyone, I'm Jen/Arielladrake. Tekanji has kindly invited me to guest-blog here for a while. I'm a mixed race (Asian/white) Australian, bisexual cisgendered woman who lives and goes to university in Queensland. I'm a sociology/politics/applied ethics major with a bent … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Privilege
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