Posts tagged: domestic violence

Feminism fails girl in the telephone box

International Women’s Day, when we celebrate the economic, political and social achievements of women, calls to mind an incident yesterday. I had called into a supermarket close to the controversial The Parks Community Centre in Mansfield Park, one of Adelaide’s western suburbs where the Westwood inner urban housing redevelopment is transforming large tracts of public […]

Tuesday March 8th, 2011 in , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Women still on a see-saw of inequality

Love her or hate her, 40 years ago, Germaine Greer unleashed a brash new tome, the Female Eunuch, which was to upturn the prescribed world of women and write a new feminist creed. Some writers, such as Louis Nowra in The Monthly, have used the anniversary to vilify Greer about her age, appearance and eccentricity. […]

Sunday May 9th, 2010 in , , , | 1 Comment »