by Junyi Xu As a male, it is strange for people to hear me say that I am a feminist. Women are curious about the […]
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‘’Say good-bye to gender stereotype’’: how is gender portrayed in the lyrics of pop music?
by Stephanie Pang Music is seen as an expressive tool where individuals can express their emotions. We often use music for many different purposes e.g. […]
Post-Lockdown Femininity Fears: The Return of Revenge Dressing!
by Ellie Gibb Ditch the joggers, switch off the X-BOX, put down the pint and slap on some lippy. Is that how you do it? […]
Gender, the guitar and why people won’t stop calling Wet-Leg ‘Industry Plants’
by Johnny Hurst Following CPB-London’s recent ‘imagine a’ campaign:[1] picture a guitarist. Are they a man? They shouldn’t be. Not only should you not assume […]
Does university rugby culture reinforce hegemonic masculinity?
by Olivia Heathfield “All the freshers have to down pints… eat cat food, and lots of other random things” (Dempster, 2009:490). Hegemonic masculinity is a […]
Incel culture: How a neo-masculinity challenges traditional notions of hegemonic masculinity
by Sophie Houghton TW – Sexual Abuse, Threats of Violence, Mass Violence Source: New America “Misogynist incel men have advocated for the legalization of violent […]
Will a woman’s work ever be done? Not when it involves doing housework and doing gender
by Paula Lovelock Finding myself living in a London house-share with four guys in the mid-1990s, it only took a few weeks before I went […]
‘I’m not like other girls’
by Paige Parsons …Hmm, not like other girls, or a case of internalised misogyny? Since I was little, I have heard this comment voiced from […]
#MeToo Social Movement and the Improvement of Women’s Awareness about Gender Equality
by Wenjie Huang Can social media drive a new wave of feminism? I believe that social media has made the new wave of feminism becomes […]
Discovering an Old Classic Book: “Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” by Bell Hooks
Book review by Hameedat Ogunlayi As a budding young feminist, I decided to read and review an old classic book “Ain’t I a […]