Call for Blog Pitches
In autumn 2019 the FWSA will relaunch its website with a range of new features and initiatives. The new website will become a safe hub for conversation amongst and the […]
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Virgin School
By Chloe Harrison “THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX IS ALSO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, KINSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS” (Donnan and Magowan, 2010) Glad we’ve cleared that up. The next topic I […]
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Femicide: men kill women
By Yagmur Arica Özgecan Aslan, 20 years old, was a psychology student in Mersin, in the south of Turkey. She died as she was heading back home in a […]
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Time for Questions and Switching places: When men are made into the commodity and women become ‘the pimp’.
By Alice Rowlands Reverse role play anyone? … Starting with a bad joke is never the best, but I thought it would be appropriate considering the topic of the […]
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2014 – The Year of the Empower-Ad?
By Lydia H Delamere With the amount of media material that infiltrates our brains on a daily basis, no wonder our society constantly scrutinises each other with the help […]
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The Contextual Influences of Elizabeth Thomas
By Amber Howells Born in 1675, Elizabeth Thomas was the only child of Elizabeth Osborne and Emmanuel Thomas. Despite her gender, she was very well educated and by her mid-twenties, […]
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Break the Internet, or Break the Media?
by Emma Bessent If you have logged on to any kind of social media website at any point late last year, it’s extremely unlikely that you have neither heard of […]
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Deceit and Self-deception in Daniel Defoe’s Roxana: An Evolutionary Take On A Female Adventurer
by Anna Kirsch In the 1970’s Robert Trivers sought to Apply evolutionary logic to explain basic social relationships such as ‘parent/offspring, male/ female, relative/friend, in- group member/ out-group member ’ […]
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My Clothes aren’t my Consent
by Hannah Karpinski ‘Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimised’- Constable Michael Sanguinetti The clothes of a woman do not make rape acceptable; a woman […]
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Revolutionising Women’s Fashion: Coco Chanel
by Libby Manning I see fashion as an art form. An art form that we not only wear, but that changes continuously with our society: reflecting the influences within the […]
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