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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingHappiness in a Society of Individuals”The predictions of the ‘end of ideology’ that were rife and widely accepted twenty to thirty years ago do not seem to have come true. What we are witnessing, rather, is a curious twist in the idea of ‘ideology’: in…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In the final stretch of the primary season, she [Senator Hillary Clinton] seems to have stepped across an unstated gender divide, transforming herself from referee to contender. What’s more, she seems to have taken to her new role with a Thelma-lik…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is qui…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Iran’s top prosecutor has called for restrictions in the import of Western toys, saying they have a destructive effect on the country’s youth.Mr Najafabadi, a high-ranking cleric, said Iran was the world’s third biggest importer of toys, with many mor…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWasn’t the collapse of communism supposed to open up all kinds of freedoms, including greater freedom for women? What happened?Agnieszka Graff: The word used in a lot of gender research in Eastern Europe after 1989 is “retraditionalization.” As c…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Consider the condition of the stranger in mid-18th-century America. “Public authority,” writes Sandoval-Strausz, “was deeply invested in policing people’s comings and goings.” Innkeepers were often required to notify officials when strangers…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Whether it is fear or rage that lurks in the heart of design’s new infatuation with killer style is hard to call. What is clear is that design and decor are – despite popular assumption – far from removed from the struggles of contemporary politi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In my whole political life I have never seen a male candidate whose clothes and hair are discussed” President Michelle Bachelet said yesterday in London. “There is a machismo, and a sexism, and it is not just in Latin America … If a woman talks hard…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOne Bloody PercentWomen are discriminated against in almost every country around the world, a UN-commissioned report says. It says that this is despite the fact that 185 UN member states pledged to outlaw laws favouring men by 2005. It adds that 70%…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Before 1965, King was upbeat and bright, his belief in white America’s ability to change by moral suasion resilient and durable. That is the leader we have come to know during annual King commemorations. After 1965, King was darker and angrier; he gre…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Karelis, a professor at George Washington University, has a simpler but far more radical argument to make: traditional economics just doesn’t apply to the poor. When we’re poor, Karelis argues, our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation, and we s…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“As Julie Wheelwright suggests in her 1992 study The Fatal Lover: Mata Hari and the Myth of Women in Espionage, on which both Murphy and Shipman draw, Mata Hari’s death was a useful tool in wartime social control: “The demonization that followed he…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“That picture of a vengeful God excoriating humanity for the tiniest transgressions has largely disappeared; love is once again seen as a more powerful persuader than fear. But something curious has happened to sin: in a matter of decades it has droppe…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFresh talks are under way to persuade 28 doomsday cult members in Russia to end a five-month cave siege after seven sect women came to the surface. The women were allowed to leave with cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov after he was brought to the scene to n…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingAthletica Nervosa”Lads” Magazines have been increasingly successful in recent years, and have attracted criticism for an alleged potential to exploit women rather than cause problems for their readership.Together with colleague Jessica Close, [David Gi…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe EntourageMme Sarkozy will not be the only member of the President’s entourage adding glamour to the visit. The party staying overnight at Windsor Castle will include France’s Secretary of State for Justice, Rachida Dati. The second of 12 children o…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Extremist movements have been growing bigger and wilder for more than three decades now, during that period, America has tried pretty much everything from a policy point of view. Our presidents have been satanic (Richard Nixon), angelic (Jimmy Carter)…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“If stories are the folklore of aspiring masculinity in high school, they become the proof of sexual odysseys in adulthood. The details may change (the prom becomes a black tie benefit; girlfriends become wives), but the pursuit of sexual stories remai…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingOut Of Control”Rock and roll on some nine years and the “young, happy and fun” Britney has been transformed into the mad, bad and sad woman of psychiatric wards and courtrooms - a woman confined by her father’s legal order of “conservatorship”, which p…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSlaves of Fashion”Moving on from size zero, the big look right now is the “sacrificial virgin”: the trembling ingénue straight out of school, all gangly and underdeveloped. “”With their blonde hair, pale skin and eastern European features, some ar…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Even more than in the eye or the nose, cleanliness exists in the mind of the beholder. Every culture defines it for itself, choosing what it sees as the perfect point between squalid and over-fastidious.”"To modern Westerners, our definition of cleanl…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“State and federal prisons are packed with victims of the drug conflict. A new report by the Pew Center shows that 1 of every 100 adults in the U.S. — and 1 in 15 black men over 18 — is currently incarcerated. That’s the world’s highest rate of imp…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Quakers hold a strong sense of spiritual egalitarianism, including a belief in the spiritual equality of the sexes. From the beginning both women and men were granted equal authority to speak in meetings for worship. Margaret Fell was as vocal and li…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“[Condoleeza] Rice, speaking at a conference on women’s rights, joined an international appeal for a fairer political role for women, especially in addressing the urgent problems of the day — climate change, terrorism, religious fundamentalism and im…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin’s The Transparent Society, the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, you’ll kno…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“This month, Norway set a new global record. It now has, at 40%, the highest proportion of female non-executive directors in the world, an achievement engineered by the introduction of a compulsory quota. Two years ago, after several years of voluntary…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingJack Nicholson, 2002, Martin Schoeller
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Like many who have dreamed of seeing a woman in the Oval Office, Ewing doesn’t understand why women are drifting in ever-greater numbers away from Clinton toward her rival, Barack Obama. This trend, which has imperiled the candidacy of the woman once …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Like many who have dreamed of seeing a woman in the Oval Office, Ewing doesn’t understand why women are drifting in ever-greater numbers away from Clinton toward her rival, Barack Obama. This trend, which has imperiled the candidacy of the woman once …
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