A protest song

It occurs to me that some lyrics are appropriate here.I learned this in a forest protest in Goolengook in the early 90s.Your idea of health seems to me to be my idea of deathYour idea of wealth seems to me to be there’ll be nothing leftAnd your idea of...

Women and the International Political Economy

I didn’t post last week’s topic: it was military sexual slavery and dealt with Japanese comfort women and Bosnian rape camps and I didn’t really need to discuss what I was doing. I used a tutorial technique called the jigsaw to get different groups...

Politics and babies

I feel somewhat remiss. In all of my busyness, I have failed to post anything meaningful about Babygate, the Fairfax strike or, for that matter, as my mother pointed out, the lgealisation of abortion in Victoria (about bloody time).Since I don’t have anything...

Women and the military

The topic for today’s tutorial is based on one of the essay topics: Are feminist critiques of militarism essentialist?Many of you who know me will know this is a pet topic. And one I get quite stuck on. My arguments are based on social construction of gender,...

Violence against women

I’m not going to recap the arguments right this second (in part because I’m still finishing the reading and don’t have time; in part because I’ve taught domestic violence as part of previous subjects and don’t feel I need to). I may do so...