content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> Feminism. Feminist fight-back against Patriarchal Religion and the demeaning of women for Women’s Rights and

Women suffer

FEMINISM 2008

 Women

Back to the wall

Feminism

Machismo

Women & Religion

Selected Feminist Videos

Finale

 

 

 

Religiously motivated cruelty

Forced marriage

Rape and Murder

Mutilation

Stoning

Identity Theft

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Inequality,

Lack of Freedom

and autonomy

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prejudice & discrimination

dependency & subjugation

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Sexual Coercion

Abuse & Violence

Trafficking for work & sex

Stigma & Prudery

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inequality, oppression

Low pay, & pensions

 

Deaths from HIV/AIDS

 

Female Genital Mutilation

 

 Execution for adultery

 

Abandoned children

accused of

'witchcraft in Africa'

 

Opposition to:-

 

 Reproductive rights

 

Contraception

 

Condom use

 

Safe abortion

 

A  figment of the male imagination - just a bit of fun? 

The History -  Backlash Against Women

Starting from the premise that the world should be ruled and dominated by the  male 'educated' elites - preferably white 'educated' men it follows that there must be a strategy to ensure this.

Not planned round a bonfire, castle or boardroom table by a small clique of conspirators, but developed over centuries by a natural constituency of interested parties.

The starting point was the advantage of physical strength, and the worship of physical strength is still very much in evidence today.

In order to prosper,  male, political and religious  ruling elites must promote and use devices designed to divide and rule the populace.

They use fear of violence, poverty - the law & penal system, religion, sexism and racism, competition & co-operation and (uncritical) 'education' and an academic elite.

The struggle against oppressive, exploitative, aggressive domination of human societies by the privileged elites continues today against the current phase of selfish, global capitalism and their coercive methods..

The campaigns to counter these weapons are  Socialism, Cooperativism, Feminism, Anti-Racism, Secularism and Peace Activism

We are all part of the same struggle for equality, autonomy and freedom consistent with the public good and struggles are inextricably linked

Sexism  is one of the most pernicious and wasteful and longstanding  effects of male elitism and Feminism is one of the most important campaigns.

Where might we be had women not been systematically excluded from education, academia, the professions, science, administration and government based on evidence based decision making? Link

 

 

The Pansy is the symbol of  Freethought from the French Pensee - 'to think'-  and  green white and purple were the colours of the Women's suffrage movement

 

Verse

Selected Feminist Videos

Essays

Greetings Cards

Websites - see links

Publications

 

 

 


How is promoting only abstinence going to stop the spread of AIDS, especially when much of it is spread through trafficking and prostitution?

 

 

Links

 

 

 

Women Freethinkers

The backbone of political

 and

community activism

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Writers and Campaigners

Old and Young

Work for Women & Peace

Demonstrate and Lobby

International Humanists

Socialist Feminists Sing

Lead peace activists

 Organise

 Reclaim the Night

Million Women March

 

create and perform

'Women of Troy'

 

 

 

 

Women matter

 

 

 

Back to the wall

Feminism

Machismo

Women & Religion

Selected Feminist Videos

Finale