February 7, 2006

The Eighth Carnival of Feminists

is up at Gendergeek. Excellent, excellent stuff. There are two interesting posts on Friedan, one laudatory, one more measured. The latter leads to this list of reactions around the blogosphere.

(Minor note: I am finding the different ways that the hosts organize this carnival fascinating: what they perceive as the central issues, and how those issues can be grouped and related to each other.)

The next carnival will be at Mind the Gap!, where it's Body Image Week. So don't wait for the Carnival; head over now.

December 20, 2005

Carnival of Feminists V

Here is some holiday reading of the feminist variety, and a day early, too. Thanks to all the nominators, particularly as I have not been able to surf too much this last little while. And a happy Winter Solstice to all!

Organizing:

Anthony writes about Nupi Lal in Manipur: "Nupi Lan means the women's war, Nupi meaning women and Lan meaning war, when women stood up in an uprising againts what we called chak tangba (inflation of food i.e. rice)."

Neha Vish on child labour.

Antonia asks, do we need "More women Tories?"

Nathanael writes about Turkish women in Germany.

Jill at Feministe posts On Helping Women, about the Haven Coalition, a group who "invite low-income women into their homes when these women travel to New York for abortions. They feed them. They give them a place to sleep. They bring them to the clinic the next morning."

Art/design/culture:

Melinda of Sour Duck nominates this post "for its scathing title, brevity, controversy, and general good pointedness."

Natalie Bennett offers "The National Portrait Gallery: Eight of my favourite women."

Holly asks, Are Women Lousy at Designing Clothes for Women? Also see Why Men Dress Women at 11D.

Twisty Faster dislikes Lucy.

Mothering

"The Price of Motherhood" at The Snarky Squab.

Maryanne posts about Dr. Leila Ahmed's A Border Passage.

Anna at inkycircus on taking anti-depressents during pregnancy.

My post on Andrea Buchanan's edited collection, It's A Boy!

In our bodies:

"Consider the Hijab: Blogging Against Racism" from Lauren at Feministe: a high-school girl does a radical experiment.

Track the IT Girl at Fluffy Dollars, a "marxist-feminist blog about pop culture." Clara Bow, the tradition lives on!

In "The Walking Wombed," Molly writes about the different meanings of body-image anxiety in women and men. Submitted by aeonsomnia.

Check out this post at Wanda Ball. The body image stuff begins with the line "Chicky has inspired me."

Food for Thought about eating disorders.

Emmy at gendergeek on raunch culture. Actually, check out the whole blog; it's new to me, and very, very interesting.

Institutionalized violence:

"A sobering post": this post at I See Invisible People. What were the two dissenting judges thinking, indeed.

Silvana contemplates the vagina.

Ruchira Paul, new to blogging since October 2005, nominates Barefoot, Pregnant .... and Dead.

Tayari Jones (no relation) writes, "I don't know if you would be interested in this, but I posted this entry about the runaway bestseller Confessions of a Video Vixen. It has been a couple of months since I posted it on my basically literary blog, but I still get comments EVERY DAY."

Roxanne Cooper submits this post about the new submission in marriage. Yes it does so belong in this category.

And, who says college football is all good fun? Not Horatio.

All that being said, Natalie urges us not to be paralysed by fear in "Women and fear: time to tackle the pathology."

Between the sheets (or on top of them. Or, against the wall next to the cupboard in which they are kept. Oh, you know what I mean!):

From sexposfemme journal: a review of Greta Christina's Are We Having Sex Now or What, and Image versus Reality.

Tiffany at blackfeminism.org offers The Sex Post: "Sometimes sex is sex — sweaty, lusty, kinky, naughty, pleasurable or painful — it is not always an expression of power or dominance, even when it appears to be."

AfroFeminista on dating in Nairobi.

Slit deconstructs Carrie Bradshaw and it's not pretty.

At work:

A post many might relate to: "She's the Boss." Women in power, women who are as bad as men, and avoiding the "B" word. The Devil Wears Prada. (snort!).

Femimism in theory:

Ampersand posts about the censoring of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.


Finally:

Blue Earth Notes asks why there are not more women in computer shops. And in related news, Trish Wilson offers A Geek's Guide To Picking Up Chicks In Computer Labs, chock full of excellent advice.

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Go to the Carnival of Feminists main page, or go directly to Carnivals I, II, III, and IV. The next Carnival will be at Reappropriate on January 4, so get your nominations in. The Carnival is listed on the Truth Laid Bear ubercarnival. You can find other carnivals at The Blog Carnival.

Many, many thanks to Natalie Bennett for her help putting together this issue of the Carnival.

December 15, 2005

Carnival of Feminists is coming!

The 5th Carnival of Feminists is due to be hosted at this very blog on Dec. 21, 2006. Please get your nominations in to me a.s.a.p. (at jones at unbsj dot ca), preferably by the 17th. Later nominations will be considered if possible, but no guarantees. You may nominate your own posts as well as those of others.

I will be away from regular internet access from the 17th to the 24th of December — just when it is least convenient for this Carnival, in fact. Didn't plan it that way but decided at the last minute to visit family in NYC. So, there is an off chance that I may not make it to a Starbucks on the 21st to post the Carnival. That probably won't happen, but thought I'd mention it just in case ... Anyway, in the unlikely event that it doesn't appear on the 21st (EST), it will appear within the next day or two.

So, keep those nominations coming!

November 2, 2005

Carnivals

Carnival of Feminists 2 is up at personal political. Now that's good reading.

Next carnival: Sour Duck on Nov. 16.

And don't forget the upcoming Teaching Carnival at Scrivenings on Nov. 18.