Tag: women

• The Feast of Fools

  It’s hard to switch sides, isn’t it? Hard to cross the tracks. And even if you do, does welcome await, or merely sidelong glances and mistrust -or as Macbeth feared, curses not loud but deep, mouth honour, breath which the poor heart would fain deny and dare not…? It’s a brave person who crosses over […]

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  January 10, 2018

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  CBC Marketplace, CBC News, change, contra proferentem, cross-dressing, dress codes, Encyclopedia Britannica, Feast of Fools, Iago, Macbeth, normalizing, Othello, parodies, political correctness, servers, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment, Shakespeare, sides, women

• Barbie in the Mirror

  As an Ob/Gyn specialist I have been, I suppose, more than a passive observer of women over the years. But society has not been passive, either. Depending on where you live and in what cultural milieu, issues such as our sizes and shapes have become sources of real anxiety. Unrealistic expectations of morphology no doubt […]

  gozzter

  September 14, 2016

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  1 Corinthians 13, Barbie dolls, Baylor University, BBC news, children, dolls, labyrinth, Lenore Wright, Mattel, Minotaur, morphology, Ob/Gyn, obesity, plus size, Sarah Allen, Shakespeare, society, stereotypes, women

• Violence Against Women

  According to a recent meta-analysis by the World Health Organization, one in three women worldwide are subject to intimate partner violence (IPV) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6140/1527.short . And it’s not just a third world problem either, as we Canadians with our often parochial outlook would no doubt like to believe. True, some countries seem to be over-represented: ‘East […]

  gozzter

  June 5, 2014

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  Aboriginal women, British Medical Journal, intimate partner violence, IPV, meta-analysis, screening for domestic violence, Violence, violence against women, WHO, women, World Health Organization