Today is the final day of Christmas, it’s Candlemas. Now we head towards Easter and if you are a Christian, the cross. Yesterday I blogged about space and emotions. Today Rev Richard Ormond (highly recommend you give him a follow) tweeted the following link. “There’s something very powerful about our sense of place. […]
Category Archives: Feminism
June
14
Spearmint Rhino and Gaslighting Feminists
posted by plasticdollheads
I wrote about ‘Not Buying It’ and stripping here. For those new to the issue, a campaign group called Not Buying It paid men to go into lap dancing clubs in Sheffield, Manchester and Camden and film naked women without their consent. A press release from Not Buying It is here. It […]
May
18
The Problem with Women’s Centres
posted by plasticdollheads
Paint it pink and state ’empowerment’ and the funding and support will come. But what exactly are people supporting? The growing push for prison abolitionism has made the fatal error of ignoring the critiques of the ‘radical alternatives’. The harms of prison are merely being displaced and reproduced in community settings. Women’s centres should not […]
April
06
The angel and the girl
posted by plasticdollheads
I must thank my lovely friend Ros for introducing me to this poem ‘The Angel and the Girl’ by Edwin Muir. Read it through a few times in its entire form (ideally aloud!) for its true beauty. “See, they have come together, see, While the destroying minutes flow, Each reflect’s the other’s face, Til heaven […]
March
24
Regulating Women
posted by plasticdollheads
As a Sociologist with a key interest in gender, you would imagine I am not surprised by internalised misogyny. Yet it never fails to frustrate, disappoint and sadden me. This week I have seen a few nasty social media comments and threads regarding the regulation of other women. Comments on sex work are always full […]
February
15
Barbie Craftivism 2018
posted by plasticdollheads
So, following on from last year’s Barbie Craftvism workshop which you can view here, it was time to do it all over again. After sending my husband out to acquire as many dolls as he could find, this was my haul. This session is part of a Level 6 module called Body Politics […]
September
10
Revelations and the Researcher
posted by plasticdollheads
(Picture of performer Delilah Jones). I first went to university in 2002 to study Philosophy at a Redbrick. I hated it. I danced at the same time and dropped out 18 months in. There is no way in hell I could have completed that degree. My father died a week before I started uni, and everything […]
September
28
Female Sexuality
posted by plasticdollheads
Ok. So I’m a Sociologist, we know that. I’m also a feminist, and massively interested in issues of sex and sexuality. And Medical Sociology/ Sociology of Health. And everything. Because I’m a Sociologist, and we look into everything. You know that one of my personal bugbears hatreds, is the narrow way in which western medicine, […]
December
29
Let’s Talk About Sex…. Work Resources
posted by plasticdollheads
I am going to keep an updated list here of useful sex work articles and links that students or anyone else interested can easily access. Open Access Journals Social Sciences Sex Work Edition 2017 Decriminalisation of Sex Work– report Home Office Prostitution Inquiry Report From Law Enforcement to Protection? Amnesty International Policy on […]
December
07
Lap dancing closures in Leeds (2013)
posted by plasticdollheads
Photo courtesy of this blog post about the club closures. Blog updated to include Prof Phil Hubbard’s post. I am absolutely horrified and furious to read the news that 3 lap-dancing clubs in Leeds must close. I have been following the activities online for over 12 months, here and here. My thoughts are […]
