You live with it all the time, it is all around you, you have known it all your life. But you can rarely see it. The hatred of women’s bodies – so ubiquitous you don’t even know what you’re looking at. Then every now and again your head somehow clears the clouds and you suddenly [...]
Archive for February, 2011
Baby bump
Posted in body image, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, pregnancy and birth, yummy mummy on February 12, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Motherhood conference in April: confirmed speakers include Andrea O’Reilly and me!
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood on February 11, 2011 | 19 Comments »
Mothers at the Margins 6th Australian, International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Motherhood The University of Queensland, Australia 27-30 April 2011 (Early bird registration closes on 28 February) I will be speaking about the responses I have received from you lovely readers to my 10 Questions About Your Feminist Motherhood. It won’t be an academic paper as [...]
Sons
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on February 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
And these are our daughters.
Does shared parenting lead to more arguments?
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers, work and family (im)balance on February 9, 2011 | 11 Comments »
From here, where Marc and Amy Vachon of Equally Shared Parenting discuss the findings of this study: The news out of Ohio State University last week seems to contradict everything “forward thinking parents” believe. In a study published in the journal Developmental Psychology, researchers reported that couples who share caregiving are more likely to experience [...]
Because identifying as one is a feminist act
Posted in feminism, politics on February 8, 2011 | 10 Comments »
I’d still describe myself as a feminist, yes. – Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 4 Corners, after being asked if she would still describe herself the way she did in her youth as “a socialist and a feminist” – the answer was ‘no’ to the first and ‘yes’ to the second.
A new definition of functional
Posted in daycare, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers, school kids, work and family (im)balance on February 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I had an epiphany while reading this charming little essay, Freer, Messier, Happier from Jeremy Adam Smith, and that is that the cobbled-together, barely-holding, constantly re-arranging care arrangements for our children that we have pieced together as working parents … are it. They are not temporary stages we are passing through on our way towards [...]
Where do you draw the line, who draws it and how?
Posted in body image, bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, classism, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, preschoolers, school kids, toddlers on February 7, 2011 | 14 Comments »
Peggy Orenstein, the author of one of my all-time favourite articles is now the author of a book on the same theme, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the frontlines of new girlie-girl culture. And this excerpt from a review of her book really nails some important points: In the case of child beauty pageants, [...]
Into the abyss
Posted in classism, motherhood, rape/sexual abuse on February 6, 2011 | 8 Comments »
The Julie Project is the story of Julie Baird’s motherhood. The Project is a photographic essay created over the course of two decades by photographer, Darcy Padilla, who ended up winning the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for the series. It is also a story of brutal poverty – an inescapable, relentless and [...]
On cultural nostalgia
Posted in feminism, pop culture, race/anti-racism on February 6, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Image credit. Jon Hamm, who plays Don Draper in Mad Men, on the era the show is set in: There were no rules, no health concerns, no political correctness. People look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white [...]
The secret to a happy marriage
Posted in bill, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on February 4, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Lauca sort of has a boyfriend. Well, she has a boy friend (note the space between the two words) who openly has a crush on her, and she is getting the idea of that and beginning to develop a crush right back on him. He proposed to her while they were swimming in the sea [...]
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