A woman is killed in a park – women are advised to stay out of parks. A woman is killed on the street – women are told to stay home. Women are killed at home – they should have left, …
What sort of journey has feminism been on over the last five decades? No doubt volumes could be written on this topic, and I'm not silly enough to attempt an answer in a few hundred words of blogpost. All I …
I first wrote about the tension between feminism and science some years ago, after a conference dinner at which the person next to me asked what sort of psychologist I was – probably expecting to hear about my ‘specialty’. My …
Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Warning: this article may be a trigger. In Ending Rape Illiteracy, Jessica Valenti discusses how our society views and deals with rape. Covers topic such as victim blaming, sexism, and politics.