This is the 36th post in a weekly feature here at Spare Candy, called "In History." Some posts might be little more than a photo, others full on features. If you have any suggestions for a person or event that should be featured, or would like to submit a guest post or cross post, e-mail me at rosiered23 (at) sparecandy (dot) com.
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Canadian political cartoon of a woman in Quebec reading a sign that reads:
"News bulletin: for the first time in Turkish history women will vote and be eligible to the public office in the general election which takes place this week"
Women were granted the right to vote in Turkey in 1930, but the right to vote was not extended to women in provincial elections in Quebec until 1940.
You can read more about women's right to vote in Quebec
here.
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True to my plans for this summer, I have been vegetating in happy procrastination surrounded by all the books I didn't have time to read during the academic year. As a result, I nearly missed Canada Day.
So Happy Canada Day to everybody who has the good fortune of being Canadian and to those who have not been equally blessed.
Toronto has a traditional association of being known as one of the safer cities to live in. For one week, however, we were shown what life would be like if we lived in George Orwell’s famous dystopia. Security in this city was so tight that giant fences were erected around the proverbial meeting spot in [...]
Across the world, girls face the double discrimination of their gender and age, leaving them at the bottom of the social ladder. They are denied access to basic health services, education, and face extremely high levels of violence, abuse, and harassment. Because I Am A Girl Report, Plan International Because I Am A Girl is [...]
This post is part of a series leading up to the Women Deliver conference (www.womendeliver.org), a global meeting on maternal and reproductive health and the advancement of women and girls. Women Deliver 2010 will push for an additional $12 billion in increased investment from G8 for programs to improve maternal health. This past April, a [...]
This post is part of a series leading up to the Women Deliver conference (www.womendeliver.org), a global meeting on maternal and reproductive health and the advancement of women and girls. Reproductive health, therefore, implies that people are able to have a responsible, satisfying and safe sex life and that they have the capability to reproduce [...]
I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I was told that I couldn’t be Indian because all the Indians were gone. – Buffy Sainte-Marie When I first went to the Hillside Festival on Guelph Island last year, I have to admit, I hadn’t heard of Buffy Sainte-Marie. As it turned out, I had heard [...]
Welcome to the Gender Across Borders series Singing for Survival. This series is about speech, singing and noise; it is about using voices, musical instruments, and other forms of auditory expression to make an impact. The posts included in this series stretch the boundaries of the term “singing,” and range from a description of noises [...]
American Apparel sells clothes by selling the sexuality of the “girl next door“. The company has claimed that the models in its ads are regular employees or friends, and while that story has been shown to be false, it still reveals the sort of aesthetic message for which their ads strive. They try to sell [...]
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The Women's Media Center: "The Way We Talk About 'Women’s Lit.'"
- Pandagon: "Because women don’t get to have 'man caves.'" Read it with Slate's "Why Do Women Read So Much?" Both pieces are by Amanda Marcotte.
- Pandagon: "Nope, that’s full blown misogyny," on how the Catholic Church is investigating nuns for committing acts of feminism.
- TV Watch: "Elisabeth Hasselbeck Tearfully Apologizes to Erin Andrews." If you didn't hear about this, Hasselbeck felt the need to victim-blame Andrews, basically saying that Andrews' stalker -- the one who videotaped her while she was in hotel rooms and posted it on the Internet -- could've just waited for Andrews to be on Dancing with the Stars. You know, because she's wearing "revealing" outfits on there.
- Vagina Dentata: "Danny Dyer advises cutting women’s faces in Zoo."
- ABC News: "Saudi King and Crown Prince Photographed With Women." This is a bigger deal than the headline makes it sound.
- Poise: "Sewing the Dominant Paradigm." I really like this.
- CTV News: "McTeer accuses Tories of putting women's lives at risk." This is about Canada's new G8 maternal health initiative, which won't be funding abortion. Also check out Sympatico's "Harper government axes funding for 11 women's groups."
- The Safer Blog: "Columbia Student Survivor’s Story Highlights School’s 'Failure.'"
- Have you seen the "American Able" campaign yet? It's fantastic. Check it out here.
- Feministing: "'Slut Panel' postmortem: Shame, shame, go away." The panel was part of the Rethinking Virginity conference at Harvard.
- RH Reality Check: "The Longer I’m a Mom, the More I Am Pro-Choice."
- Hello Ladies: "Confession: Sexual Harassment, I Dealt With It." I think a number of us can relate to this.
- Gender Across Borders: "The Sexist Side of Social Networks."
- USA Today: "Nutrisystem drops Lawrence Taylor after rape charge."
- Gadling: "Small dick joke has TSA worker beaten up after security scanner incident."
- Global Comment: "Fat and disability: what few of you want to hear."
- Nerve: "Homosexual Shmomosexual: Mad Men's Alison Brie shares an especially experimental moment of college experimentation." Brie is also on Community.
- Pharyngula: "Whatever happened to 'first, do no harm'?" This is about the American Academy of Pediatrics' compromise on female genital mutilation.
- American Prospect: "Hollaback Moves Forward." Hollaback is an organization that deals with street harassment.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there!
