Category Archives: self-sovereignty

You feminists just want to tell women to do what you want, instead of letting them CHOOSE (and we all know girls *choose* the girly stuff)

June 16, 2008 · by · in clarifying-concepts, gender, gender gap, self-sovereignty

Bumped from the Open Suggestion thread, so that we can have a general discussion about the various issues surrounding how choices can be constrained by socialised expectations: lala, on June 15th, 2008 at 1:53 am Said I’m an engineer and pretty much always the only woman (or occasionally, one of two women) in any workplace […]

Disability is a feminist issue

May 2, 2008 · by · in announcements, disability, discrimination, self-sovereignty

The 2008 roundup is at Diary of a Goldfish

Women more prone to depression than men: it’s NOT the fault of feminism

March 12, 2008 · by · in Family & Work, gender, self-sovereignty, Sexuality & Health

There are however many conservative columnists and pundits generally who’d like us all to believe that lie. Amanda at Pandagon debunks the following common claims (how many have you heard, and more importantly, at least partly believed?): Assertion #1: Women need marriage more than men, and it’s their marriages, not their jobs, that help save […]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “The Solitude of Self (1892)”

June 21, 2007 · by · in feminism, First-Wave, self-sovereignty, writings

Also known as “Self-Sovereignty“. This speech, was in Stanton’s own judgement “the best thing I have ever written” and in the judgement of Susan B. Anthony “the strongest and most unanswerable argument and appeal ever made . . . for the full freedom and franchise of women”. It’s already fairly widely available on the internet, […]

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