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We’ll kick off Women’s History Month with a word from Kristin Aune about the Feminist movement, an unflinching look at the various aspects that have marked the women’s rights journey. A surefire conversation starter first, then on to other posts offering some CommonSense and powerful female characters in literature. [EF]
When they hear the word “feminism”, few people seem to think of young women. They tend to see images from the past: suffragettes chaining themselves to railings, Emily Wilding Davison throwing herself in front of King George V’s horse or women wearing dungarees and not shaving their legs.
And that is the way the movement still appears to be taught in schools. When Catherine Redfern and I surveyed nearly 1,300 contemporary feminists for our book on the resurgence of feminism, Reclaiming the F Word, they told us it had been taught to them as something historical. Hearing about the suffragettes was inspiring, they said, but it didn’t give them much sense of connection to feminism today.
Yet the theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “Connecting Girls, Inspiring Futures” – and it’s an important one. Girls are, after all, the future, and they have the power to inspire others and change things for the better. Feminism needs to be seen as a current movement and one in which young women are pivotal. How can we engage young people with feminism in the 21st-century classroom? How has the movement changed? And where is it headed?
FULL ARTICLE: International Women’s Day – Standing in the Way of Control
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Here’s a one-stop shop to help address body image issues: video clips that can be shared with students, tips for parents, and teachers – including a link to this famous “Dove – Evolution” video. [EF]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
FULL ARTICLE: Girls and Body Image
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Do you know what the Global Peace Index is? Would you believe someone who said they could “prove” the correlation between women representatives and a nation’s peacefulness? If you’ve got one of those “dead” advisories with 10th graders, show this chart and watch the sparks fly! [EF]
Today’s news that Senator Olympia Snowe, the perennially moderate Republican from Maine, would not be seeking re-election has many politicos and pundits wondering whether the GOP can hold that seat…
…This got me thinking about the impact of female representation in government upon various characteristics of a society, particularly with regard to a country’s violent or peaceful tendencies. There’s an interesting dataset called the Global Peace Index (GPI), a product of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)….
…What you find, if you compare a country’s female representation in government to its GPI score, is a downward trend….
FULL ARTICLE: Chicken or Egg: Does female representation in Government lead to Peace?
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This Top 10 list comes from Emily Temple in Flavorwire. Would you agree that Hermione Granger, The Wife of Bath, Jane Eyre, and Hua Mulan should make the cut? (Trying not to mention a certain ubiquitous Katniss and save that for the next post – clearly failing at that!) [EF]
Since March is Women’s History Month, we’ve been thinking a lot about the women who have had positive and lasting impacts on our lives — and perhaps not surprisingly for a bunch of literary geeks like us, we’ve realized that many of them are fictional. For all the hullabaloo about the dearth of strong female characters in modern culture, thankfully there are some wonderfully powerful, kick-ass maidens that have inspired us with their strength, self-discovery, and incredible brilliance over the years…
FULL ARTICLE: 10 MOST Powerful Female Characters in Literature
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