Tag: Feminism

• Women’s Roles: From Trad Wives to Workforce Participation

  Dec 30

  Introduction From the post-war period through to the late twentieth century, women’s social roles in the United States and the United Kingdom underwent profound structural change. In the 1950s, married… more ›

• Understanding Functionalism: A Blueprint for Misogyny

  Dec 28

  Why an old sociological theory is driving today’s culture wars on X Spend any time on X, and a familiar argument appears again and again. Society is supposedly “falling apart”… more ›

• Trump’s Higher Education Changes: Implications for Nursing from a Feminist Perspective

  Nov 29

  The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed revisions to graduate student lending that will significantly change how students finance advanced degrees. These changes classify eleven fields,… more ›

• Nativism Then and Now: William Poole’s 19th-Century America and Modern British Anti‑Immigration Movements

  Nov 16

  I was watching the film Gangs of New York and could not help but notice the comparisons with today’s politics. So I decided to do some research. The film’s violent… more ›

• After Katie Fox: Making Britain’s Cities Safer for Women at Night

  Nov 13

  Introduction: A Tragic Reminder On a busy Friday evening in November, 34-year-old Katie Fox was fatally stabbed at a Birmingham city centre bus stop. The attack appeared completely unprovoked –… more ›

• Part 2 – The Agricultural Revolution: When Property Replaced Partnership

  Nov 2

  “The shift from gathering to ownership was not progress. It was the beginning of hierarchy.” — Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Humanity’s relationship with land changed everything. When… more ›

• Chapter Eight: Abuse, Trauma, and Protective Singleness

  Oct 8

  Introduction While many women in the twenty-first century embrace singleness as a form of autonomy or lifestyle choice, others arrive at it as a protective strategy. Experiences of childhood abuse,… more ›

• Chapter Five: The Twentieth Century – From “Surplus Women” to Second-Wave Feminism

  Oct 4

  Introduction The twentieth century brought profound transformations in the lives of single women. Demographic upheavals, particularly following the two World Wars, produced large populations of unmarried women who could not… more ›

• No Safe Age: What Crime Data Tells Us About Violence Against Women and Children

  Sep 22

  When we speak about violence against women and children, there is often a myth whispered in the background: that danger is confined to youth. Once women pass a certain age,… more ›

• Women, Technology, and Power: What Will 2035 Look Like?

  Aug 22

  Introduction The next decade promises seismic shifts in reproductive technology, gender identity policy, labour markets, and women’s rights. Recent headlines claim that China has invented a humanoid “pregnancy robot” capable… more ›