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R Answers II
Hi R, I’ve been feeling angry a lot recently. Angry at the people around me, frustrated by ideas that differ from my own and angry at how the world is. I’m finding it hard to work out how to handle my anger. Women are always taught to control their anger, to accommodate others and not…
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Exploring Femonationalism
Molly Lindsey is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. [NOTE: This message, while important, is certainly not new. This is a tiny look at a massive subject. The intersects of race and gender will not and cannot be understood from one authors research and perspective or another’s briefing of it. For more relevant…
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Neutrality Rather Than Positivity
Mariana Plaza is a Colombian/Spanish 1st year Politics, Philosophy and Law student, interested in women, human rights and different cultures. Her hobbies include debating, writing poetry and having meaningful conversations. The politicisation of the female body is not a contemporary concept. Patriarchal power has articulated itself overtime through unrealistic expectations, the constant sexual objectification and…
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In Conversation with My Mother
Tori Sprott is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Since I have been feeling overwhelmingly uninspired by things the past month, I decided to do something different for my second piece. I interviewed my Mum about her cancer diagnosis and all things in between. Writers block isn’t always the most terrible thing. Let’s…
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In Remembrance: Daphne Caruana Galizia
Andreea Badiu-Slabu is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. On 17th October, the world of journalism lost Daphne Caruana Galizia, a woman with a resounding voice. She started her own blog in 2008 called Running Commentary to express her views of what was right and wrong in Malta. As her former employer wrote…
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SHOOTING AND SEX: FEMINISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1930s FARM RELIEF
Molly Lindsey is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, as the United States economy faced significant distress, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographed “Madonnas of the Field”. These so called “Madonnas” were women typically living and working on farmland, who suffered greatly as a result of…
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Is Gender Essentialism bad for the intersectional feminist movement?
Harriet Whitehead is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Gender Essentialism says that there is a specific feature or ‘essence’ that defines what it is to be a woman. This is often held to be a negative theory from the feminist perspective. This is because with the definition, many people feel a normative…
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Microfinance and the Empowerment of Women
Pooja Sajanani is a regular contributor to Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Since its inception in 1976, microfinance has had a feminist association. In 2016, out of the 132 million clientele of microfinance which cumulatively borrowed $102 billion, 84% were women. Many studies have shown that the availability of microcredit has increased women’s mobility, political participation…
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Decriminalizing prostitution: the right of women to sell their bodies, or the right of men to have unlimited access to women’s bodies according to their economic power?
Sandrine Birkeland is a Philosophy student, interested in poetry and Hannah Arendt. In May 2017, Amnesty International adopted a policy supporting the decriminalization of prostitution, removal of laws criminally targeting practices within the sex industry: solicitation, brothel keeping, and living off the proceeds of prostitution. Amnesty claims decriminalization best defends the human rights of sex…
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Dreamers Crushed: The End of DACA and its Implications on Migrant Women in America
Molly Lindsey is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Last month, the Trump administration announced an end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a U.S. initiative implemented by former President Barack Obama, which provides temporary protection to young migrants. The federal program specifically provides rights for persons brought to the U.S. illegally…
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Dove’s Latest Advert Shows That Colonialist Ideology Is Still Alive And Kicking
Sophie Perry is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. When one thinks about advertisement campaigns, most of us only see the end product. In a world where ‘we are exposed ‘to as many as 5,000’ [1] advertisements a day, our lives are saturated by images on social media, television, buses and billboards. Thus,…
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