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By ~LS~ On February 25, 2010 · Add Comment · In Capitalism, Feminism, Generations, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Consumption, Feminism, For Wordies, Generations, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, Sexism

Recently on WMST-L, the Women’s Studies discussion list, someone posted a call for papers about porn culture. The call was clearly anti-porn and the posting provoked a brief but rapid pro-/anti-porn debate before the moderator shut it down for being inappropriate to the mission of the list. Those old issues from the feminist sex wars still prickle at us feminists and I’m predictably on the fence about porn. I content myself to remember the title of the book, Pleasure and Danger, because porn is both those things, a crucial point about sex that we should always remember.

But one thing that does bother me is the pornification of consumer culture. I mean this in a different way than the typical use of the term as a comment on the how advertising borrows heavily from porn’s tropes and porn itself has infiltrated every aspect of popular culture. I’m [...]

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By ~LS~ On October 2, 2009 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Pop Culture, Rape, Sex, The View, Whoopi

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From Code Pink — Halliburton Sexual Assault

By ~LS~ On February 27, 2008 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Rape, Sexism

War is hell for everyone involved. For women, this hell can be especially deep. Recruiters don’t tell those who enlist that 30% of military women will be sexually assaulted while serving. Women who work as contract employees in Iraq face similar dangers.

Jamie Leigh Jones, a former Halliburton/KBR employee in Iraq, recently testified at a Congressional hearing that she was drugged and brutally gang-raped by her co-workers in 2005. Three years later, KBR and the military have failed to punish the perpetrators or provide redress for Jamie Leigh.

We met Jamie Leigh in Washington and we were moved by her courage-under tremendous pressure-to speak out publicly and start an organization, The Jamie Leigh Foundation, to help other women. Since Jamie Leigh spoke out, 38 U.S. women, all contract employees in Iraq, have come forward to report crimes of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace. Halliburton/KBR has failed [...]

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Random Musings

By ~LS~ On December 23, 2006 · Add Comment · In Politics, The Quotidian (yadda yadda) and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Hillary, Obama, Rape, What I Did Today

* Hillary and Barack are on the cover of Newsweek this week. There’s nothing of real interest in the article; it’s just more speculation about the democratic primaries.

* The Duke Rape Case is being dropped because of lack of dna evidence. I’m sure there’s something Foucaultian to be said here about the money shot and (in)visible signifiers of rape, and the technologies of the legal system, but I’m not quite sure what it would be.

* I have two of four syllabi ready to go for the Spring and I’m slowly making my way through the textbooks. I’m worried, since I’ve thrown out all my stuff in a massive purge, that I don’t have very many resources. It’s going to be a true scramble next semester. I have got to stay on top of the ball and not be a flake.

* Today is mine and Stevie’s [...]

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