Category Archives: Feminism

Embarrassing Bodies

My husband is head chef in our house. During my pregnancy, I ate like the Wallaby tight five during the off season. The first three months after our daughter was born, I was breastfeeding (or expressing) every couple of hours. Not surprisingly, my appetite was nothing short of voracious. Somewhere between three and four months, we organically reverted to a ‘working day’ routine,

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Women of Merit

Last week, Australian media was saturated with discussion of Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s new cabinet. Statistical comparisons with cabinets from New Zealand to Africa to Afghanistan were a plenty. Discussions centring around how poorly Australia sits from a representation of women in politics, point of view. While the Iraqi and Afghani comparison’s were a stretch at best. In Australia, post

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Man Whores & Emotional Trojans

Man whores follow their urges. They let whoever is tied financially to them, determine their calendar of events. And if an EA’s handy – rest assured there is a ready justification for compartmentalising competing priorities by playing the ‘work card’ in keeping all vested and related interests civil. A friend rang me last night and over a glass of wine

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