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despre masculinitatea moderna

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ce este apreciat la “masculinitate”? la Sociological Images: ERROL MORRIS MILLER ADS avem citeva exemple de reclame, ca cea de mai sus, care raspund acestei intrebari (“real men have to restrain themselves while they listen to women, “Real men know how to back up Suburbans pulling boats”, “real men drink beer and don’t worry about stupid things like their diet or health” mai ales ca, sa nu uitam, barbatii adevarati nu sunt niciodata vegetarieni, s.a.m.d.).

(in aceeasi traditie: “ziua barbatului care se dispretuieste, se pare”)

march 8th: women and climate change

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“Women and Climate Change: Vulnerabilities and Adaptive Capacities” by Lorena Aguilar
from State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World

— “Celebrating International Women’s Day and 35 Years of Gender Work” from Worldwatch Institute
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comunicat: Ziua internaţională a femeilor – 8 martie 2009

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Bucuresti, 08 Martie 2009 – Mesajul doamnei Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, Director Executiv al UNFPA, Fondul ONU pentru Populaţie

Astăzi, cu ocazia Zilei internaţionale a femeilor, haideţi să ne unim eforturile pentru a pune capăt violenţei îndreptate împotriva femeilor şi a fetelor. Continue reading →

I’m a Roma Woman, I’m a European Woman, I’m a Woman

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via carmen

Budapest, 6 March 2009

TheRomediaFoundation, a Budapest-based civil organization (www.mundiromani.com), and Amnesty International (www.amnesty.hu) initiated a video campaign on Roma women with the support of Duna Television (www.dunatv.hu) and the Decade of Roma Inclusion (www.romadecade.org).

The 4-minute spot, produced for International Women’s Day 2009, features flashes of the personal history of five Roma human rights activists from all over Europe along with footage from Roma settlements across the continent. In these times of crisis, as social cohesion is greatly endangered by the multiplication of acts of extreme violence against Roma in Hungary and elsewhere, the campaign exhorts the public to respect Roma in all their complexity.


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8 martie!

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Feminisme
istorii, spatii libere, democratie participativa, justitie economica

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8 martie – Ziua Internaţională a Femeilor!

Spatiul h.arta
Str. Zugrav Nedelcu nr. 11, Timişoara (intrarea din Splaiul Tudor Vladimirescu)
si spatiul public al orasului

Ziua de 8 martie are o istorie legata de luptele pentru egalitate sociala, o istorie a eforturilor şi sacrificiilor depuse de femei obisnuite pentru drepturi in campul muncii. Aceasta istorie a unei zile care sa celebreze femeile care muncesc (facand atat munca salariata cat si muncile casnice neplatite, atat munca productiva cat si munca reproductiva) este acoperita de identificarea zilei de 8 martie nu cu o zi a femeilor care militeaza pentru drepturile lor ci cu o zi a femeilor pasive, care sunt, prin menire si destin doar mame si consumatoare.

Va invitam sa sarbatorim ziua de 8 martie avandu-le in minte pe femeile care s-au opus si se opun inegalitatilor de multiple feluri, pe cele care prin atitudinile si actiunile lor au participat si participa la construirea unei realitati mai echitabile.

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despre sexism la tv

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un articol bun — cu precizarea ca in mass media asemenea critici apar, in cel mai bun caz, atunci cand sexismul afecteaza femeile politiciene, de preferat cele din tabara persoanei care aduce critica… in rest nu se scoate nici o vorba de chestiuni si dinamici de gen (ceea ce duce sistematic, in timp, la aceasta problema a unei “societati sexiste pe fata” sesizata aici):

“Barbatia regasita a barbatului roman” de Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Romania Libera, 05 Februarie 2009)

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about not walking on eggshells

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“Walking on eggshells”: an excellent, profoundly thought-provoking essay @ The F-Word

Where’s the liberation in walking on eggshells? Where’s the empowerment in feeling equal only to adolescent boys and women?

So what happens if I not only leave the realm of object, if I focus on men but I’m not deferential, submissive or flirtatious either? I have stopped walking on eggshells as much as I can bear to. I follow my fear into situations of potential male violence and disapproval: situations where passivity, acquiescence and submission feel safer or more appealing than taking control. I take note. […]

To be treated as an equal I need to say what I want, express all the things I feel about men, even if some are critical, do what I want, and above all stop walking on eggshells and start tackling men. All that and accept – welcome – his disapproval and anger because it means I’m finding something out about him. I’m finding out if he wants a human or an object. And when I don’t get control, disapproval and anger I know I’ve found equality.

by Alex Brew, author “Asking for It” project, cofounder FemAdLib Kolektiv

A Feminist Criticism of Exchange

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“For-Giving, a Feminist Criticism of Exchange, is an analysis of the values of gift giving seen as an economic mode of distribution based in maternal practice, and opposed to the self-reflecting and ego-oriented values of exchange on which the market economy is based. The values of Patriarchy entwine with those of Capitalism to create an economic system of domination, while a maternal economy would provide for everyone and promote a community-oriented subjectivity which would also honor Mother Nature. This book gives an eco-feminist based perspective on the gift economy as a basis for social change.” (text reappropriated from other sources)

book available online for free: http://www.for-giving.com/