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Revising Feminist Relationships (Sophie Lewis)

Posted by Oxford Womcam on Friday, November 19, 2010,

Published at: http://polytical.org/activism/community/4-revising-feminist-relationships.html

I'm beginning with the premise that relationships, not just individuals, can be feminist. My housemate points out that what I mean could also be termed 'anarchist'. Well, here I go.

How can a sexual relationship be feminist? My first response: by fucking with roles.

If we're considering a scenario in which just two people are having sex with one other in private, there is always (although I probably shou...

Lisa Ansell

Posted by Oxford Womcam on Friday, November 19, 2010,

Lisa Ansell: WHILE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FEMINISM, WHAT HAPPENED TO EQUALITY?This is the transcript of the speech I gave at Oxford University's Gender and Equality Festival last week. Is long but was speaking for 45 mins.

''Hello. I was really pleased, although quite surprised to be asked to come and speak to you all today. By yesterday at 3pm, I still hadn’t really figured out what I wanted to say.

I’ve considered myself a feminist since I was a teenager. (pause) I think I considered mysel...

Relationships, Sexuality and Feminism

Posted by Oxford Womcam on Sunday, November 14, 2010,

Relationships, Sexuality and Feminism http://lasophielle.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/an-excerpt-from-what-i-said-in-the-oxfordgef-relationships-sexuality-feminism-session-yesterday/

People are so much better at making a good world in their hearts and in their beds than they are at making a good world out there in the world.

The one has to be the rehearsal for the other.

Last night we heard from a married Christian woman who talked about agapelove and her relationship with God; a Marxist student of...

Nina Power on Emotional Labour

Posted by Oxford Womcam on Sunday, November 14, 2010,

Nina Power on Emotional Labour http://lasophielle.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/nina-power-on-emotional-labour/

Nina Power, senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and author of One Dimensional Woman, spoke on the concept of emotional labour from a Marxist perspective in Oxford this Thursday. As usual Wadham College attracted a good crop of radicals-in-training and the session was incredibly interesting. Nina outlined her thesis that Arlie Hochschild’s concept (in The Managed Heart...

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