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“We cannot avoid observing the continual emphasis upon female sexuality as acceptable only when women were safely designated as the property of one specific male and that any deviation from that rule was denounced as harlotry or adultery and subject to punishment by death, making the sexual customs of the older religion rather difficult to follow.”

Book:When God Was A Woman

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When God Was A Woman

This book delves into the historical and cultural context of goddess worship in various ancient societies, examining its impact on mythology, religion, and societal structures. more

Author

Merlin Stone

Merlin Stone was an influential author known for his profound insights into gender, culture, and history. His works covered a range of topics including feminism, gender studies, and social change, having a profound impact on contemporary culture. more

“Instead of empowering women, intersectional feminism encourages them to be victims. It is an endless marathon to find out who is the most hard done by. And it forces women to do and say the politically correct thing, in order to keep the sisterhood happy. This goes doubly so for women like Sommers, given the racial politics of identity that sees white women constantly forced to apologise for being the oppressor due to our privilege, race and skin colour. And if we are not on board with forfeiting our individual experience and spruiking an endorsed narrative – – then we are the problem.”

Feminism Intersectional Feminism

Author:Vanessa de Largie

“When each person planted a single tree, together, they created a forest. When each person raised their voice, together, they created a movement.”

Inspirational Environment Feminism Social Justice Ecosystem

Book:Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

Source: Dr. Wangari Maathai Plants a Forest

“This was the trouble with emigration - it dismantled the patriarchy. Because really, what did Assunta, or any woman, need a husband for, when she did every goddamn thing herself?”

Humor Feminism Patriarchy

Book:The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

Source: The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

“For some, measuring porn’s real-world effects boils down to one extreme and ultimately misleading question: “Does it lead to rape?” What is overlooked here is the more subtle question of how porn shapes the culture and the men who use it. No anti-porn feminist I know has suggested that there is one image, or even a few, that could lead a nonrapist to rape; the argument, rather, is that taken together, pornographic images create a world that is at best inhospitable to women, and at worst dangerous to their physical and emotional well-being. In an unfair and inaccurate article that is emblematic of how anti-porn feminist work is misrepresented, Daniel Bernardi claims that Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon believed that “watching pornography leads men to rape women.”³ Neither Dworkin nor MacKinnon, pioneers in developing a radical feminist critique of pornography, saw porn in such simplistic terms. Rather, both argued that porn has a complicated and multilayered effect on male sexuality, and that rape, rather than simply being caused by porn, is a cultural practice that has been woven into the fabric of a male-dominated society. Pornography, they argued, is one important agent of such a society since it so perfectly encodes woman-hating ideology, but to see it as simplistically and unquestionably leading to rape is to ignore how porn operates within the wider context of a society that is brimming with sexist imagery and ideology.”