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Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain and the Gendering of Martyrdom

In the same season we’ve been presented with two different comprehensive documentaries of two of our most iconic and tragic, gone-too-soon figures in recent decades. Brett Morgan’s Montage of Heck depicts the slow unraveling of Kurt Cobain in the preamble to his suicide, Asif Kapadia’s Amydepicts a corollary narrative about Amy Winehouse’s life, and in …

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Rashida Jones On Being Sex-Positive But Still Challenging The Porn Industry

One of the many disturbing moments in “Hot Girls Wanted,” a new documentary produced by Rashida Jones, features young woman who, after filming a porn scene that she wasn’t comfortable with, says: “I was terrified, I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know if I could tell him no.” It’s this sense of a …

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LEGO is slipping a feminist message into its newest line of characters

Women aren’t entering fields of science and math in large numbers, so LEGO is encouraging them on the minifig scale. The trend of men dominating STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, math) has been omnipresent in the US, but not for any biological reason, many experts say. Most girls just aren’t pushed in that direction. Now the …

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Study shows how men overcompensate when their masculinity is questioned.

της  Maya Dusenbery Μια νέα μελέτη επιβεβαιώνει ότι οι περισσότεροι άντρες, αν αισθανθούν ότι αμφισβητείται ο ανδρισμός τους, θα προσπαθήσουν να αντισταθμίσουν απορρίπτοντας οτιδήποτε θεωρείται «γυναικείο» και υπερβάλλοντας για την «αρρενωπότητά» τους με άλλους τρόπους. Η μελέτη έδειξε ότι άντρες φοιτητές πανεπιστημίου που έλαβαν ψευδή χαμηλά αποτελέσματα σε ένα τεστ δύναμης των χεριών πρόσθεσαν κατά …

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A Female Mason Perched High above Berlin (c. 1910)

With the rise of industrialization, the number of German women who worked outside the home also increased. This usually meant factory work. But in some families with their own businesses, daughters also learned a trade so that they could help out: here, we see a master-mason’s daughter during the renovation work on the old city …

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