Femen partout, féminisme nulle part, par Mona Chollet «Les musulmans semblent éprouver un sentiment de puissance virile à voiler leurs femmes, et les Occidentaux à les dévoiler », écrivait l’essayiste marocaine Fatema Mernissi dans Le Harem et l’Occident (Albin Michel, 2001). L’engouement des médias français pour des figures comme les Femen ou Aliaa El-Mahdy, l’étudiante égyptienne qui, en 2011, avait posé nue sur son blog (1), offre une nouvelle confirmation de la justesse de cette observation. On a pu voir sur France 2, le 5 mars, un documentaire consacré au collectif d’origine ukrainienne implanté en France depuis un peu plus d’un an (2), et un autre intitulé Aliaa, la révolutionnaire nue sur La Chaîne parlementaire (LCP) pour le 8 mars, Journée internationale des femmes. « Si tu montres tes nichons,je reviens avec mon photographe » Femmes, vous voulez vous faire entendre ? Les Femen, elles, ont été plus pragmatiques. Certes, la militante féministe Clémentine Autain a raison de rappeler que « le happening, c’est dans notre culture.
Forget your personal tragedy On May 10th of 1934, a month after the publication of his new novel, Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his friend, Ernest Hemingway, and asked for his honest opinion on the book — a tale about Dick and Nicole Diver, a couple based largely on mutual acquaintances of both Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Gerald and Sara Murphy. Hemingway certainly responded with honesty. His engrossing reply — a letter that contains plenty of advice for any writer — can be read below. (Note: Hemingway's spelling is shown accurately. For example, he twice wrote "write" where, presumably, he meant "right.") The Freelance Strategist The Happy Feminist Shocked to hear me say that? Don't be. Feminism doesn't guarantee a woman a date, or safety from harm, lifelong happiness, or greater health (although it has always been my opinion that being a feminist improves one's chances at all those things). The purpose of feminism is equality of opportunity, freedom, and dignity for all women. What a woman chooses to do with that equality is up to her. And I trust women to make their own choices for what they want to do with their lives, even if their choices involve risks -- just as much as I trust a man to make an intelligent choice as to whether he wants to risk his health playing a sport like boxing or football. That's why I am not unduly disturbed by a Swedish study (touted by anti-feminist commenters) purporting to show that women who take on stressful jobs traditionally held by men suffer health consequences for doing so. And that's thing.
Sois belle et... sois-toi ! • Féminin singulier • Le corps des femmes se livre chaque jour à tous les regards, dans un dévoilement qui l'offre à la concupiscence comme à la vindicte, et dans des proportions qui font qu'il est devenu impossible de ne pas le considérer. Contemplé, apprécié, vénéré, le corps féminin est aussi examiné, jugé, critiqué, selon un curieux mouvement qui voit la dimension corporelle de l'existence revêtir une importance inouïe pour les femmes d'aujourd'hui (pour les hommes aussi, mais ce n'est pas mon propos ici) tout en faisant l'objet d'une dénonciation quasi unanime en tant que vecteur d'assujettissement. Pour comprendre les raisons de cet opprobre, il faut remonter à la révolution des mentalités qu'il s'est agi d'opérer dans le moment du féminisme de la seconde vague. Après que la femme a été réduite à son sexe, il fallait la redéfinir comme non sexuée pour fonder sa prétention à investir le monde.
Clouds’ Effect on Climate Change Is Last Bastion for Dissenters Over time, nearly every one of their arguments has been knocked down by accumulating evidence, and polls say 97 percent of working climate scientists now see global warming as a serious risk. Yet in recent years, the climate change skeptics have seized on one last argument that cannot be so readily dismissed. Their theory is that clouds will save us. They acknowledge that the human release of greenhouse gases will cause the planet to warm. Their theory exploits the greatest remaining mystery in climate science, the difficulty that researchers have had in predicting how clouds will change. “Clouds really are the biggest uncertainty,” said Andrew E. Richard S. Dr. His idea has drawn withering criticism from other scientists, who cite errors in his papers and say proof is lacking. However, politicians looking for reasons not to tackle climate change have embraced Dr. Dr. Some politicians have welcomed that message, regularly calling Dr. He repeatedly sought affirmation from Dr. Dr.
Trending poems — Hello Poetry Ms. Magazine Online | More Than A Magazine - A Movement La Gazette des femmes : Tout sur la condition des femmes du Québec et d'ailleurs Erasing Memories Cell by Cell We've discussed recent findings about erasing fears from memories, but today we'll be talking about erasing the fear memory itself. This involves actually inhibiting or killing the individual neurons that encode for a particular memory, so for obvious reasons these experiments are done on mice rather than humans. Mice can be trained to associate a mild electrical foot shock with a tone. The tone plays and then a foot shock is given. In Han et al. (2009), some beautiful genetic trickery was used to promote a 'kill switch' only in the neurons which are active during the memory formation. So now with the memory encoded and the kill switch in place, they pull the trigger and inject diphtheria toxin into the mice. The second set of columns (CREB-cre, DT) is the experiment I have described. They wanted to make sure that just killing any 250 neurons in the amygdala didn't causes memory loss. Similarly, they wanted to make sure that the diphtheria toxin (DT) itself didn't erase the memories.