
Different Gender, Different Words. How Mothers Talk to Kids
Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report (read more)
Parent-child conversations are gendered, with mothers talking more expressively to their daughters than their sons. Report (read more)
Shouldn’t everyone be allowed to wear whatever she or he wants, whether it’s a veil, a rubber miniskirt or a clown outfit? Should the State really be able to tell us how we must or mustn’t dress? (read more)
The discourse around ‘chavs’ can be a cover for denigrating the social agency and sexual autonomy of working-class women, as well as wider political attacks on the working class.
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Race, class, gender, sexuality, age, geography, identity and the economic inequality our system requires, comes down on women’s lives brutally. (read more)
“Women are human” shocker. Yes, even Margaret Thatcher. (read more)
A new study highlights evidence for considerable differences between the sexes in five domains – cardiovascular disease, cancer, liver diseases, osteoporosis, and pharmacology. (read more)
Marketing technique: Activating gender stereotypes just to knock ’em down. (read more)
Transphobia is not about an academic term, it is about the reality of living in a country where you can’t even guarantee your doctor will speak to you like a human being, and where the risk of violence is the norm. (read more)
Using brain scans of children and adults watching Big Bird on Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children’s brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math. (read more)
Why do girls get better grades in elementary school than boys—even when they perform worse on standardized tests? (read more)
Vaginal microbicide gel may offer a promising strategy for prevention and protection against HIV transmission. (read more)
Put the kettle on? When tea drinkers were viewed as irresponsible as whiskey drinkers. (read more)
As the nights draw in and the temperature begins to drop, many of us will be thinking of ways to warm up on the dark winter nights. However, few would think that remembering days gone by would be an effective way of keeping warm. But research from the University of Southampton has shown that feeling nostalgic can make us feel warmer. (read more)
HSRP director Andrew Mack, disputes the common assumption that conflict-related sexual violence is on the rise (read more)
Fresh from her performance at the Manchester ‘Fat-out’ festival, Lydia Lunch relished the part of ‘Mistress of Ceremonies’, showcasing various friends and new talents that she had cobbled together for this unusual London event. As is to be expected, she’s a damn fine ‘Mistress of Ceremonies’ too. (read more)
“Positive depictions of women challenge negative stereotypes even when the content includes sexuality and violence. In this way Ferguson reminds us that viewers often process popular media portrayals in more subtle ways than critics of all political stripes give them credit for.” (read more)
Anklepants is the electronic barrel organ of your Freudian nightmares . The nightmares where you are being psychoanalyzed by a traveling salesman with a penis for a face. It’s a silly stuff that exists on the disturbed fringes of something ‘artistic’ but saves itself by being fun and accessible. (read more)
Carter also states that societal beliefs about women’s bodies affect the way they deal with pain and injuries. “While visible injuries on the field are dealt with similarly through a culture of sacrifice, off the field, women often face stigma due to visible bruising, cuts, scrapes, and other abrasions,” she says. (read more)
People idealize mature morphological traits like heavier body size when they experience an environmental threat such as stress. (read more)
This review is the second chapter in my critical assessment, Part 1 examined Future Map 10, a pretentious and ostentatious shindig overly concerned with prestige. In this second chapter I am exploring the world of The Few and Far Between, a fledgling art collective which truly piqued my interest. (read more)
Prodigy vs Mutiny: Art’s Promising Future? Pt. One (read more)
Parents to clamp down on the sexy child market.
The UK Government is setting up a governing body to assess and prevent over-sexualisation of children in marketing, advertising and product sales. Citing examples of children’s lap-dancing kits, playboy pencil cases and t-shirts in preteen sizes featuring the slogans such ‘future trophy wife’ it is claimed that children are being sexualised inappropriately for their age. (read more)
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