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‘Brave’ and the legacy of female prepubescent power fantasies. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. Brave is actually situated within a somewhat prolific trope of female prepubescent power fantasy tales. By Amanda Rodriguez. I liked Disney Pixar’s Brave well enough. It’s pretty enough. It’s a story about a mother and... ‘Brave’ and the legacy of female prepubescent power fantasies. Our regular cross-post from Bitchflicks. Brave is actually situated within a somewhat prolific trope of female prepubescent power fantasy tales. By Amanda Rodriguez. I liked Disney Pixar’s Brave well enough. It’s pretty enough. It’s a story about a mother and daughter, and there was21
Feb
2014
Daft pseudo-scientific excuses have been used to exclude women from sports. It may have taken 90 years, but women were finally able to compete in the ski-jumping at this year’s winter Olympic Games at Sochi. Although women have been ski-jumping since Ingrid Vestby first soared through20
Feb
2014
(CNN) -- A judge has ordered that accused Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes undergo an additional sanity examination, saying there was good cause to believe previous testing was "incomplete and inadequate," according to a ruling issued Wednesday. Arapahoe County District Judge20
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Manama: A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to five years in jail and to 2,400 lashes for assaulting his mother. The man, in his 30s, will also have one tooth broken after he broke his mother’s tooth when he beat her as she was riding with him in a car, the court in Makkah20
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“These are entry-level jobs into a world of gross exploitation and violence.” The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has paid cash incentives of up to £2,275 to lap-dancing bars and similar establishments to hire young unemployed people aged 18-24 as part of its Youth19
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2014
On January 19, Dennis McGuire died gasping and choking during a lethal injection administered by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. “Over those 11 minutes or more he was fighting for breath, and I could see both of his fists were clenched the entire time,&rdquo19
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India's Supreme Court commuted death sentences on 3 men for killing former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi to life imprisonment on Tuesday because of an 11-year delay in deciding on their petitions for mercy. Gandhi was killed by an ethnic Tamil suicide bomber while campaigning in an election19
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TV boss says lack of female representation is ‘unacceptable’. Finally, the BBC is doing something about the gross under-representation of talented women on their embarrassment of testosterone-fuelled panel shows. In an interview with the Observer last week, the BBC’s18
Feb
2014
Leading social scientists suggest practical local policies to reduce health inequalities. The British Academy has published a collection of nine proposals from leading social scientists setting out ways that local authorities in the UK could improve the health of their communities and reduce
QUETTA: A tribal couple in southwest Pakistan have been stoned to death allegedly on the orders of a local cleric after being accused of having an extramarital affair, local officials told AFP on Monday. Eight people have been arrested, including the cleric, for the suspected murders in17
Feb
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The USA must agree to change its law and halt all ‘data mining’ from ‘phone and internet use in the EU. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have backed Green demands for the immediate suspension of talks leading to a proposed new trade deal between the European Union
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Florida Gov. Rick Scott has signed a death warrant for convicted killer Robert Lavern Henry, the day after the execution of Juan Carlos Chavez. his office said. Chavez, convicted for the 1995 rape, dismemberment and death of Jimmy Ryce, 9, in Redland20
Feb
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Florida Death Chamber The state corrections official who stands beside condemned inmates as they take their last breaths in Florida's death chamber recently pulled back the veil on what has largely been a very secretive execution process. The testimony was given during a20
Feb
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Jakarta. Paroled Australian drug trafficker Schapelle Corby could find herself back behind bars if she goes ahead with a planned tell-all interview slated to run on an Australian news network, an Indonesian official warned on Tuesday. The interview, for which Corby was allegedly offered20
Feb
2014
Women’s Aid calls for government to take action on online abuse. Three in ten women have been stalked or harassed online through email and social media platforms, including Facebook, according to a poll by Women’s Aid, the national domestic violence charity. And much of the abuse19
Feb
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Screen shot from "Dead Man Walking" BRUSSELS (AP) — There’s one big reason the United States has a dearth of execution drugs so acute that some states are considering solutions such as firing squads and gas chambers: Europe won’t allow the drugs to be19
Feb
2014
I saw this poster again the other day. It encapsulates one of the strongest rows about inequality. The TUC recently reported that women over 50 earn a staggering fifth less than men of the same age, and on average women earn £5000 less than men a year. And the gap widens in some19
Feb
2014
Louisiana Death Row BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The state corrections department said Monday the only way it can lower heat levels on Louisiana's death row to a federal judge's requirements is by installing air conditioning. U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson ruled in December19
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2014
Report finds that 21 per cent of the UK’s workforce is paid less that a Living Wage. That is 5.24 million workers in Britain – and is an increase of 420,000, or 9 per cent over the last 12 months. The Living Wage Commission was set up to look at the case for a Living Wage and how
North Korea's regime is committing crimes against humanity including the extermination, starvation and enslavement of its population, and its leadership should be hauled before an international court, a UN-mandated inquiry team has said. The UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in17
Feb
2014
This suggestion comes at a time as some Civil Society Organisations (CSO) are pushing for the country to abolish the statute that penalise the act. Currently the maximum jail term sentence for those found guilty by the courts is 14 years. In what will be viewed as stirring up hatred on17
Feb
2014
Here are some dates for your diary of woman-centric events going on around the UK this week. London: 17 February: She Grrrowls: Anti/Valentines at The Gallery Café, 21 Old Ford Road, London E2, from 7.30pm. She Grrrowls showcases a range of talented women and includes poetry, comedy15
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Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has threatened to start a hunger strike over his living conditions in jail, it has emerged. Breivik, who killed 77 people in 2011, compared prison to “torture” and bemoaned, among other things, the lack of an up-to-date video games console
February 19, 2014: Emirati football player Fayez Juma, who was sentenced to death, has been pardoned by the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi. He has been sentenced to three years in jail and ordered to fast for two consecutive months, as per Shariah law. Fayez’s lawyer Salem Obaid20
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Atlas crane used for an execution in Iran The chairman of a German company whose cranes are reportedly being used for public hangings in Iran lashed out at critics and dismissed calls for his company to end its relationship with Tehran on humanitarian grounds. German20
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First results of survey show women are forced to chose between family and work. Project 28-40, a research project which aims to find out why women in their 30s fail to progress in their careers at the same rate as men, has released its first results. Since November, 25,000 women and19
Feb
2014
I believe capital punishment is one of the critical social justice issues of our country, and is, in many ways, the sharp edge of a deeply flawed criminal justice system. With 143 convicted death row inmates exonerated to date, an increasing awareness of how race, poverty and geography
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma pharmacy has agreed not to provide a drug for a scheduled execution next week in Missouri as part of a settlement with the death row inmate's attorneys. But it's unclear whether the deal will prevent or delay the lethal injection. Attorneys for death19
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NCRI- The authorities in the main prison in the city of Qazvin on Tuesday hanged three prisoners of drug related charges, the state run Fars news agency without giving any further information. The Iranian regime has been executing prisoners with a rapid pace after Hassan Rouhani took18
Feb
2014
Support the Fawcett Society’s campaign. The (male) Prime Minister and (male) Leader of the Opposition recently debated women in politics, in a House of Commons that is almost 80 per cent male. Despite the Prime Minister’s pre-election pledge to make a third of his Ministers17
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2014
WA Gov. Inslee David Chapman, interim Public Defender for King County, issued the following statement on Governor Jay Inslee's announcement Tuesday to place a moratorium on executions in Washington state: "I'm deeply encouraged by Governor Inslee's decision to place a17
Feb
2014
NCRi - The Iranian regime henchmen hanged two prisoners on Monday in the northern city of Nowshahr, state-run Mehr News Agency reported. The prisoners were identified by their initials J.M., arrested in 2007 and J.M. arrested in 2009. The two prisoners were hanged early morning on Monday
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All of a sudden men can be mocked and degraded too. I’m worried. I watch TV less and less, but I see more and more sexism, towards women of course, but also increasingly towards men. I see more and more semi-naked males, bronzed, buff, tanned, oily. They are running on my
Karaj public hanging, Feb. 15, 2014 February 15, 2014 - Two days after the public hangings in Shiraz, two men were hanged near the Golshahr metro station of Karaj, west of Tehran, at 7 AM this morning, reported the Iranian state media today. The state run Fars news agency