SPECK ‘N U: 9 (C.G. Jung and feminism)
SPECK ‘N U:8 (C.G. Jung and feminism)
Iceland is being interesting again
When it comes to issues near and dear to feminists (and non-feminists), Iceland is the country to watch these days. Last year, Icelanders elected the first lesbian head of state, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir. Now, the country’s elected representatives have passed a law to close down all Iceland’s strip clubs (“Iceland: the world’s most feminist country” by Julie Bindel, Guardian, Mar 25, 2010).
Excerpt:
Even more impressive: the Nordic state is the first country in the world to ban stripping and lapdancing for feminist, rather than religious, reasons. Kolbrún Halldórsdóttir, the politician who first proposed the ban, firmly told the national press on Wednesday: “It is not acceptable that women or people in general are a product to be sold.”
With wit: What feminism means to Lucy Mangan
Caution, don’t read this column today by Lucy Mangan unless you’re intelligent and have a sense of humor (“What feminism means to me” The Guardian, Sept 19, 2009).
Excerpt teaser:
I wish my own feminism had been a matter of careful thought and formulation, underpinned by the kind of muscular theorising that could make it stand firm against the many blows that any attempt to assert one’s belief that women are, uh, equal to men…
