Resources for schools & teachers · Resources · End Violence Against Women. Skip to main content Resources for schools & teachers There are a number of excellent resources to support schools, teachers and practitioners working with young people on preventing violence against women and girls through education.
Here is a small selection of resources: NUT Policy Statement on Preventing Sexual Harassment and Bullying Voices Against Violence: A World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and UN Women Curriculum Stop sexual bullying: young people's resource from Womankind Worldwide Preventing violence, promoting equality: A whole school approach, report from Womankind Worldwide Zero Tolerance Scotland: Respect programme for primary and secondary schools Southampton Rape Crisis Centre: Peer Education Pack Against Violence and Abuse, Children and Young People's Project Resources Women's Aid and Home Office Expect Respect Toolkit on teenage relationship abuse (includes lesson plans, activities etc) Trust project from Tender Home Office 'This is Abuse' website Respecting others.
Soraya Chemaly: Dress Codes or How Schools Skirt Around Sexism and Homophobia. Spring is coming, which means we are entering the season of the regulation of how much skin girls around the country are allowed to bare.
Dress codes, while usually regulating boys' slovenliness, tend to police girls for how much of their bodies are visible. Anyone who's ever painted or stood in a room surrounded by Kara Walker silhouettes can tell you that white space is defining and when we talk about dress codes, girls' skin is the white space we've all been trained to ignore in these discussions. And, while everyone is in theory affected by dress codes, girls and LGTBQ youth are disproportionately affected by them.
Challenging schools to align unexamined, traditional dress codes to contemporary values is a tangible place to start if you're interested in teaching kids to live in a diverse, tolerant society. Of course, many parents are not interested. When it comes to girls, skimpy and skin-baring clothes are often the primary issue. Vera Brittain. Vera Mary Brittain (29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970) was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Life and work[edit] Born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Brittain was the daughter of a well-to-do family who owned paper mills in Hanley and Cheddleton. She had an uneventful childhood with her only brother her closest companion. At 18 months her family moved to Macclesfield, Cheshire and when she was 11 they moved again, to Buxton in Derbyshire. Isabella Bird. Isabella Bird Isabella Lucy Bird married name Bishop (1831 – 1904) was a nineteenth-century English explorer, writer,[1] photographer [2] and naturalist.[3] She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society[4] Early life[edit] Travels[edit] Isabella Bird wearing Manchurian clothing from a journey through China.
Bird finally left Britain in 1872, going first to Australia, which she disliked, and then to Hawaii (known in Europe as the Sandwich Islands), her love for which prompted her second book (published three years later). Heres-why-mary-seacole-and-other-inspiring-black-figures-should-stay-on-the-curriculum-8487142. ‘The black Florence Nightingale and the making of the PC myth: One historian explains how Mary Seacole’s story never stood up.’
That ‘historian’, William Curtis, went on to say that ‘the hype that has built up surrounding this otherwise worthy woman is a disgrace to the serious study of history.’ There have been a small, but vocal number of Mary Seacole detractors such as Curtis, and notably the former editor of Radio 4’s Today programme Rod Liddle, who almost cannot bear the fact that the exploits of Mary Seacole were being optionally taught to seven and eight year-olds as one of many great Victorians. Top of a long list of the spurious gripes, Liddle was questioning why she inspired black people, when according to him, ‘she was white. At least three quarters’. Given that Seacole was never mandatory to the curriculum one wondered what all the fuss was about. In which it was a bad week for women. Gods above, but that was a bad, bad week for women.
In amongst the other enormous breaking news stories (resigning Popes; covert ground-up horse in apparently everything; meteors hitting the Earth), a woman was shot dead in the middle of the night, allegedly by her boyfriend. The story has garnered far more media attention than any other case of domestic violence might because the man who’s been charged with her murder is a world-famous Paralympian athlete. This, understandably, has meant that the focus of the story has been Oscar Pistorius, rather than the victim, Reeva Steenkamp. Ain't I a Woman? Rand Paul Slams Ashley Judd, Embraces Tiresome GOP Misogyny. The GOP has a very limited playbook when dealing with rivals.
Generally speaking, if they’re not white or male, the GOP attacks their intelligence and fairly drips condescension. For someone as pre-programmed and unoriginal as Rand Paul (R-Parrot), there was never any danger of straying for this playbook and it showed during a Sunday interview on CNN. When the topic of Ashley Judd’s challenge to deeply unpopular Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-No One Likes Me) came up, Paul had this to say:
GOP war on women continues to rage in the states. How To Avoid Becoming A Rapist. Image by Jenna Jardine “Sex without consent is always rape.
Female Genital Mutilation: Frequently Asked Questions: A Ca. What Did You Say? Good things happen when women talk.
Miracles happen when we listen. We find out we aren’t alone, we aren’t powerless, we aren’t strange (well, maybe a little bit). We’re not disposable objects to be cherished or trashed; and we discover women aren’t our enemies. We are. We become our own worst enemy when we reduce our circle of friends and family members. Without external support as a reality check on the narcissistic relationship, women become isolated, even separated from her true self in the confusing nature of the relationship. The male narcissist utilizes manipulative tactics separating his partner from her meddlesome friends. Event:International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation - wikigender.org. From wikigender.org Overview The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation is observed each year to raise awareness about this practice.
Female genital mutilation of any type has been recognized as a harmful practice and violation of the human rights of girls and women. WHO is committed to the elimination of female genital mutilation within a generation and is focusing on advocacy, research and guidance for health professionals and health systems. Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. EFC report into abortion education in UK schools launched today. Our report ‘Abortion Education in the UK: Failing our young people?’ Released today reveals the extent of poor-quality education on the topic of abortion. Some teachers and external speakers delivering lessons on abortion have been found to be using materials which are inaccurate, biased, and often stigmatise abortion as a pregnancy option. For example, the three main anti-abortion groups regularly invited into schools to speak to thousands of young people have all claimed that abortion is linked to an increased risk of breast cancer (despite cancer organisations and respected medical bodies dismissing this link).
Why rape has a place in the National Curriculum- TitTat. Were you taught about the difference between consensual and non-consensual sex at school? Neither were we. TT’s baffled Kerry explores why rape should be part of the sex ed syllabus If you pay even the tiniest bit of attention to the world, you notice that harrowing tales of sexual assault and abuse are everywhere – and they make you angry, fleetingly, until you move onto the next story.
Fetal Anomalies and Medication Abortion Next Targets of Indiana's Anti-Choice Legislature. Indiana Right to Life has jumped into the 2013 legislative session with both feet, proposing a dozen new abortion and birth control restrictions for the state. Photos du journal. I voted for EverydaySexism for a Shorty Award in activism! Austin's Feminist Vigilante Gang vs. Texas Rally for Life. An Anonymous Medic and a Feminist Vigilante Gang member stand with the patriarchy piñata at the Texas State Capitol during Saturday's Rally for Life. Thousands For Hate, A Handful For Peace Saturday at the Texas Capitol, thousands (by mainstream media estimates) gathered to celebrate the war on women’s rights.
DN! AMY GOODMAN: A hundred years ago today, civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was born. Education For Choice - Brook for Professionals. Race is a feminist issue. Crush Of The Week: Ainee Fatima. The Power of Portrayal: Identity Formation in the Digital Age: Male Involvement in the Feminist Site Miss Representation. Male Involvement in the Feminist Site Miss Representation. Ladies Like Comics Too « feminars. Feminism. Feminism, in the broadest sense, refers to a political movement directed towards the emancipation of women from cultural stereotypes which have always served to denigrate and disparage them. Www.annekesmelik.nl/TheCinemaBook.pdf. Why I’m breaking the cycle of violence in Afghanistan. “Burkas for babies”: Saudi cleric’s new fatwa causes controversy. Feminism. Woman Rights & Feminism. Ain't I a Woman? Women Rights Pearlers.
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