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  • 19 Apr 2012
    Female genius and religion

    Key aspects of Christian (and notably Christendom) tradition have been used to cement or justify women's oppression. But dismissing Christianity simply as something to be thankfully consigned to history means consigning all the achievements of women who have identified themselves as Christian alongside it, says Alison Jasper. From this perspective, all Christian women are victims if not collaborators. A rounder picture is needed.

  • 10 Apr 2012
    Gender and the vestigial state of religion

    When governments are displaced they can persist within contemporary states as ‘religions’ that maintain their patriarchal origins and character, says Professor Naomi Goldenberg. Since women’s challenges to male domination have only met with some success in recent times within fairly contemporary forms of statecraft, if earlier states known as ‘religions’ are allowed too much authority over domains such as ‘the family’ or ‘the home,’ women will be the losers, she argues.

  • 1 Mar 2012
    Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly: Impact or ‘Impact statements’?

    While the direction of ‘impact statements’ is all about what the public is getting for its money, it says nothing about the bigger issues of impact that offend or contest common sense and sensibility and in which universities have always, in the past, taken a leading role. Dr Alison Jasper argues this point with regard to two icons of feminist religious and philosophical scholarship, Simone de Beauvoir and Mary Daly.

  • 1 Dec 2011
    Cyborgs or goddesses? On 'Human Resources Management'

    The spread of totalising, ostensibly rational strategic power through 'human resources management' and 'the performative aboslute', together with the imposition of complete transparency and the denial of trust, is a huge threat to humanity, says Professor Richard H. Roberts, looking back to, and beyond, Donna Haraway's feminist cyborg utopianism twenty years ago.

  • 8 Mar 2011
    Record number of International Women's Day events across the globe

    This year is seeing the highest-ever level of global women’s activity on 8 March, as groups across the world celebrate the International Women’s Day centenary.

  • 20 Feb 2011
    Women still face church ‘patriarchy’, global meeting told

    The World Council of Churches needs a “gender policy” to ensure full participation by women, a meeting of its main governing body has been told.

  • 9 Dec 2010
    Women keep up pressure over budget cuts and wage inequality

    The Fawcett Society has pledged to keep up pressure on the government over gender equality and has welcomed a further EHRC investigation of the issue.

  • 3 May 2010
    Women still badly under-represented as parliamentary candidates

    Women are still being marginalised in Westminster parliamentary politics, according to findings about candidates released by the Centre for Women and Democracy.

  • 15 Oct 2009
    Women's dignity and the church's tainted love

    Discrimination, segregation, stereotyping – all factor in to women’s lives, says Fran Porter. By its words and actions, the church is part of the conversation. The question is, what is it saying?

  • 9 Sep 2009
    WCC presidents decry lack of women in senior positions

    Three women presidents of the World Council of Churches have expressed concern and disappointment at the lack of women in senior staff leadership in the world's biggest church grouping.