The Alternative Disney Princesses
Viewing the Disney girls through a feminist lens: Via: Roba.
Tag Archives: women
Women and the New Tunisia
Although Tunisia has slipped from the Western news agenda despite yesterday’s violence, it is heartening to see that one aspect is still …
This Is Not Tunisia
And this is not what the aftermath of the Jasmine Revolution should bring: the beating of women on Avenue Bourguiba: …
Mona Eltahawy vs. Tariq Ramadan Smack-down
I have a theory that if womankind watches Mona Eltahawy each morning, the global patriarchal structure would fall and by …
Virginity Tests in the Name of “Security”
Yesterday Amnesty International issued a report on the conduct of the Egyptian army towards female protesters. It makes for harrowing …
Intelligent Women? Rare as Bicephalous Gorillas
The following excerpt by the French sociologist Gustave Le Bon was composed in 1879 and is a testament to how …
If Women Ruled Politics
In a similar vein to the previous post, following the 1929 Palestinian Arab Women’s Congress in Jerusalem, in which calls …
Best of the Rest: Why sectarianism is bad for women
Every so often a post emerges that needs no further comment; so perfect, apt and correct is it that to …
Happy International Women’s Day! (But Not if Britain Gets Its Way)
100 years since its launch, we are commemorating The Woman. Considering this year’s post, I rather hoped to move towards …
The Revolutionary Belles of Egypt
The following images posted on Leil-Zahra Mortada‘s Facebook photo album are the photographic equivilent of Wagdi’s clip, below. Women have long …
