[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Breast-Feeding And Death
- I have now started a file on articles having to do with mothers, health and the psychology of child-rearing. And the same for fathers, health and the psychology of child-rearing. It will be very interesting to see what that file gathers over time.
- Benignly Neglected?
- That's one theory about the dearth of women in various important places: It's not based on outright hatred of women or explicit attempts not to have those icky creatures round but simply the invisibility of women.
There's something to that, I believe. I've recently noticed that when the BBC, for example, interviews "people on the street" they are about nine times out of ten men, whatever the country and whatever the topic. Do the BBC journalists avoid women on purpose? Probably not. But having just male voices doesn't sound "off" the way having just female voices does. That's because men are seen as the default human beings.
This post was provoked by a quick study by the NPR ombudsman on the number of female experts and commentators in the NPR programs…
- My Feminism Series
- Because of stupid Blogger (sticks out tongue, screws eyes), my old permalinks are wrong. Here are the new links to the feminism series (or at least the first seven posts in it):
1. The Right To Go Out
2. The Planet of the Guys.
3. Our Father Who Art in Heaven
4. The Invisible Women
5. The Female Body As Property
6. The Longest Revolution
7. Penis Envy
- The Stereotype Threat
- GH sent me a link to a study which attempts to measure the impact of sexual objectification on the cognitive performance of women subjected to it. The topic is fascinating and so are the ways the study tries to mimic the sexual gaze. But a total sample size of just twenty-five women makes me reluctant to draw any firm conclusions from it.
The question posed in that study reminded me of the stereotype threat…
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