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Género. Organice actividades de desarrollo de capacidades para aprender los conceptos básicos sobre ciudades seguras para las mujeres y violencia hacia las mujeres y niñas. Es importante organizar sesiones de capacitación para asegurar que los socios del programa comprendan los conceptos básicos y adquieran el vocabulario adecuado necesario para hablar sobre ciudades seguras para las mujeres.

Organice actividades de desarrollo de capacidades para aprender los conceptos básicos sobre ciudades seguras para las mujeres y violencia hacia las mujeres y niñas

Important Women in Psychology History. Georgene Seward - Psychology's Feminist Voices. Women in early 20th-century experimental psychology. Women made a significant contribution to the development of experimental psychology in Britain in the early 20th century, at a time when social mores dictated that it was unnatural for women to pursue independent careers, which generally entailed forgoing marriage and a family.

Women in early 20th-century experimental psychology

There were many barriers to obtaining qualifications and limited opportunities for employment; women faced discrimination, subordination and segregation. They were frequently barred from common-rooms and excluded from professional society dinners: properly bred women did not enter rooms where men were smoking. Beatrice Edgell Beatrice Edgell was born to a family who were able to offer her material and moral support when higher education was beginning to open up to women. Gender Issues. Patricia Hill Collins on black feminism and social justice — The Scripps Voice. By Rosemary McClure ’13Editor-in-Chief On Jan. 30, renowned author Dr.

Patricia Hill Collins on black feminism and social justice — The Scripps Voice

Dear Men, Street Harassment Sucks. Originally published on Thee Kats Meoww and cross-posted here with their permission.

Dear Men, Street Harassment Sucks

KAT: Hey guys, welcome to TheeKatsMeoww. Today’s episode is actually geared towards you guys. 20 Classic Stories by The New Yorker Women. This week The New Yorker relaunched its website, opened up its archives since 2007 to non-subscribers, and announced a forthcoming metered paywall.

20 Classic Stories by The New Yorker Women

There’s a lot to read, most of it written by men: In 2013, women still made up less than a third of the magazine’s bylines, according to the annual count by VIDA. But they’re a formidable less than a third! In honor of the new site and summer reading, the Cut has selected 20 classic stories — old and new, locked and unlocked — by the women of The New Yorker. In “Netherland” (December 2012), Rachel Aviv follows a young, gay homeless woman from street to shelter to subway, permanently changing the way you see New York City. La construcción de la masculinidad y su vinculación con la violencia. Ajustándose a los mandatos. De(s)generando el género: “Son aquellas pequeñas cosas...” Micromachismos de la vida cotidiana.

Probablemente ningunx de lxs que esté leyendo este post ponga en duda que un golpe físico contra una mujer en base a su condición de tal, es violencia de género.

De(s)generando el género: “Son aquellas pequeñas cosas...” Micromachismos de la vida cotidiana

Sin embargo hay muchas expresiones de la violencia machista que son menos evidentes y no por eso menos importante. Masculinidad hegemónica y patriarcal ¿qué mecanismos actúan para que la sociedad la sostenga? Los Imaginarios Sociales (La nueva construcción de la realidad social) Sobre sexismo e especismo, por Patrícia Lessa. Category: #freethenipple - The TaTa Top. Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer - Feminismo Latinoamericano. Meghan Murphy on Elliot Rodger, misogyny and porn culture. On May 23 in Isla Vista, California, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger murdered six people and wounded 13 more.

Meghan Murphy on Elliot Rodger, misogyny and porn culture

Rodger, in his blog as well as on Youtube, cited women for not giving him attention, sex and love as motivation for his attack. Most media outlets have talked up what happened as the act of a deranged young man. Yet the tragedy has also prompted a larger conversation about male entitlement in a world where women face escalating threats of rape and violence, not to mention persistent gender disparities in work, education and civil society, each day. Meghan Murphy is a writer and journalist as well as founder and editor of the website Feminist Current. On rape culture and what Heather MacDonald doesn’t understand about sexual violence. CBC Radio’s Q with Jian Ghomeshi hosted a debate on the term “rape culture” yesterday, which could have actually been interesting and productive, had producers made better choices in terms of how they framed the conversation.

On rape culture and what Heather MacDonald doesn’t understand about sexual violence

I do consider “rape culture” to be a useful and accurate way of describing the way in which sexual violence has been normalized and sexualized in our culture. What Does Feminist Porn Look Like? What is Feminist Porn? Masculinities, Femininities, and Socialisation by @SparkEquip. A couple of years ago I sat in a café with a man talking about masculinities.

Masculinities, Femininities, and Socialisation by @SparkEquip

One of the things he said has stuck with me. ¿Qué es el feminismo? ¿Qué es el patriarcado? En su sentido literal significa gobierno de los padres.

¿Qué es el patriarcado?

Departamento de Educación. ¿Femicidio, feminicidio? El genocidio necesita un nombre en América Latina. Por Diana Cariboni. An Interview with the Brains Behind the bell hooks Phone Line. Last week, the internet lit up with news of a phone number that would text you back bell hooks quotes. The two creators of the "feminist phone intervention" see the project as a mix of activism and art—people can give out the phone number to people trying to pick them up or they can just text the number for a little dose of wisdom during the day.

Since its launch last week, the phone number has been contacted 100,000 times, say its creators, and has added phone numbers for people in the UK, Canada, Mexico, Germany, and Israel and is taking donations to maintain and expand the service. Though the phone line's creators want to remain anonymous, one of them took the time to answer a couple questions about the popular project via email. She wants to be identified as "a Latina from the Bronx. " XoJane. On Facebook, a friend recently linked to an article called 20 Tools for Men to Further Feminist Revolution. Although he liked the list, he (correctly) noted that most of the suggestions were quite academic. The friend in question, like me, is an academic, so this point is not meant to be an indictment of the original article. It’s just that practical tools and academic tools can have different places in the world.

His comments have prompted me to create a list of more practical tools. Crece maltrato de mujeres a los hombres - El Nuevo Diario - Managua, Nicaragua. Cerca de 3 mil denuncias en Comisaría de la Mujer. Elliot Rodger: Sympathetic Men, Trolls & Reason to Abuse Women Online. The voices of women rise, once again, to tell the world that misogyny is at the root of many crimes and violence against women and girls, and, once again, we find many men who support and encourage misogynistic views of women. It has never been more evident than with the Elliot Rodger case, whose warped view of entitlement to female bodies motivated him to target and shoot “blonde sorority sluts.” His 141 page manifesto demonstrates his hatred of women, and despite this clearly outlined hate and the murderous rampage he inflicted, men are supporting Elliot Rodger. Men are trolling and harassing women online, and Rodger-sympathetic Facebook pages are dedicated to him: Seen on the Elliot Rodger “tribute” page, noted above: When a woman speaks up about another Facebook page created about Elliot Rodger, albeit with a different theme, the misogynist account above replies: Kudos for the witty comeback.

Some of the Elliot Rodger misogyny I’ve seen in other online spaces: My Favorite Cartoonist Smashes A Sexist Fairy Tale Trope In One Hilarious Swoop. What Does Feminist Porn Look Like? On bell hooks and Feminist Blind Spots: Why Theory Will Not Set Us Free. One of the more frustrating things that accompanies publicly and proudly claiming feminism is the constant questioning of the integrity of my identity. Those who have no vested interest in the movement assault me with bad faith interrogations of my ideological commitment in the hope that they will prove to me and to themselves that I'm not who I say I am. They want me to admit that although I claim this identity, I am not feminist enough because of the music I enjoy, the clothes I wear, or the words I use -- that I might wear the t-shirt, but I'm not really a member. Lambda Legal Applauds NYC Police Dept. Move to Limit Use of Condoms as Evidence of Prostitution.

Tina Belcher's Sexual Revolution. There are only a few hard and fast rules to know when living in the universe of the network sitcom: 1. Marriages are held together by the sheer power of constant bickering. 2. Most people don’t do any actual work at their jobs. 3. SUPERWOMEN – Cendrillon et Marge Simpson en femmes battues pour dénoncer les violences conjugales. Cendrillon a l’œil au beurre noir et Marge Simpson le nez en sang... Dans une série intitulée What kind of man are you ("Quel genre d'homme es-tu ?

"), le dessinateur italien AleXsandro Palombo dénonce sur son blog les violences conjugales à travers les héros des cartoons et dessins animés populaires, relève le site du magazine Madame Le Figaro. Piropos. Vale, por esto es que las chicas no se sienten halagadas cuando los chicos comentan sobre sus cuerpos. Nicaragua: Reforma limita Ley Integral Contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres. La Ley Integral Contra la Violencia hacia las Mujeres, adoptada hace poco más de un año por la Asamblea Nacional de Nicaragua, no aguantó ni la arrancada. Considerada por algunos como muy progresista y por otros como inconstitucional, esa ley ha sido restringida, cuando el gobierno, mediante la Corte Suprema de Justicia y el propio parlamento, aprobaron el 25 de septiembre una reforma a esa normativa que permite la mediación entre agresores y víctimas.

La medida se aplica para los llamados delitos leves hacia las mujeres. Buenos Aires. If prostitution isn’t about lonely, undersexed men, what is it about? (Or, Justin Bieber doesn’t need to pay for sex) 145.