. If you are not currently being aggregated and think you should be send an email to kevin [at] perfumebloggers (dot) com with your blog URL.Welcome to the Wetlands
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFrom Superdome to Superlove”Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest it. “It is fertile. It’s a delta. And everyone wants to party there,” explains Eve Ensler, activist, feminist icon - and the author of The Vagi…
Read the rest here: Welcome to the WetlandsPregnancy, Pica & Pickles
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Mothers-to-be reported cravings for odd combinations of food, the most common being pickles and peanut butter, followed by marmite and ice cream. Other combinations mentioned included tuna and banana, and fried eggs with mint sauce.”"She said cravin…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“If male doctors conspired to define madness, responding to behaviors that flouted the social conventions of their culture, female patients, in the attempt to understand themselves and their context, and maybe even to create or bolster identity, collud…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Saudi Arabia’s rigid sex segregation, compulsory male guardianship of women and other “grossly discriminatory” policies are a denial of fundamental rights, a leading human rights watchdog says today.Every Saudi woman must have a male guardian, normall…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Beautiful Tough”Remember when women in the workplace were all about power suits and being one of the guys? About having a million-dollar job and a manner to match? Well, that’s no longer the deal. There’s a new breed of boardroom babe: a beauti…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“A graduate of Barnard, and an A.B.D. in 18th-century English literature from Columbia, Erica Jong began her literary career as a poet, but it was Fear of Flying that made her famous, and that novel, as the critic Lisa Marie Hogeland has said in Femini…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Freemales’ - manless women who are happy to remain so for the present at least - are now a force to be reckoned with and are overturning the dated Bridget Jones image of the lonely woman staring despondently at an empty Chardonnay bottle. They are too…
Read the rest here: FreemalesMy Big Fat Botox Wedding
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“As wedding season approaches, another crop of brides is currently immersed in a torturous process of self-improvement. It is hardly breaking news that women face daily pressure to look good, but most of the time this pressure is a background hum: mild…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingBed Yes, Housework No”A new University of Michigan study concludes that having a husband creates an extra seven hours a week of housework for women. For men, it’s the opposite: A wife saves her husband about an hour of housework a week, the national s…
Read the rest here: Marriage Doesn’t Always Mean SharingWomen Own 1% of the World’s Titled Land
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%…
Read the rest here: Women Own 1% of the World’s Titled LandInternational Woman
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…
Read the rest here: International WomanThe American Graces
from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFemale Artist-Adventurers: Joni, Carly, Carole”They came of age—and to music stardom—in the 60s and 70s: Carole King, the sensual Earth Mother; Joni Mitchell, the bohemian risktaker; and Carly Simon, the glamorous iconoclast. Today they are activis…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“It wasn’t only the earning potential that led Elena to try lap-dancing - she now believes that she, and women in general, are socialised to see it as an inviting occupation. “I thought, well, I’m a sex object anyway, I might as well have it out on the…
Read the rest here: Encore: Men, Money, Women, MeatWhat Women Want
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“In 2004, Enright published a memoir, Making Babies, which described her experiences of mothering her two children, now seven and five. Written while the babies napped, it seemed to unfold in real time, and its brave, frank tenderness was much admired….
Read the rest here: What Women WantBad Girl
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…
Read the rest here: Bad GirlFashion’s Call to Nullify
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“[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…
Read the rest here: More Power To YouLaughter as Privilege
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Dissecting the nature of women’s humor, or supposed lack thereof, is a joyless and increasingly moot subject, but it boils down to the point Virginia Woolf argued in her essay about Shakespeare’s sister in A Room of One’s Own, and it’s analogo…
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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 …
Read the rest here: Human ChessMakeup: the Humanizing Effort
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“That women still want to wear makeup reflects a failure of the feminist movement in particular and the immaturity of our culture in general. Makeup is a mask that allows women to tap into corporate power. I don’t mean corporate as in business, but rat…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingWishful Thinking At the Oscars”The problem is that awards which do not segregate on the basis of gender tend to overlook women altogether. There is no Nobel prize for women’s literature: women go head to head with men. And they’ve won 10 times in 107 y…
Read the rest here: Female Is Not a GenreWomen Work, Men Get Paid
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Although men and women spend similar amounts of time “working” (between 51 and 52 hours a week), men spend more time in paid employment and women spend substantially more time on unpaid work.”There are two sexual divisions of labour,” University of Ne…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Women’s application of makeup is an update of the Narcissus myth. One cannot apply it — or at least not well — without looking in a mirror. The self-reflexive gaze required has elements of the lover’s gaze: Eyes and lips are focal points and d…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Gulabi Gang”In one of India’s poorest regions, hundreds of pink-clad female vigilantes are challenging male violence and corruption.”"Gulabi means pink, and refers to the electric shade of the uniform worn by the 500-plus members, who hail from Ban…
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from perfumeshrine @ Perfume ShrineThrough the course of history, men have left a more prominent relief on the gauze that seperates present from past deeds. Even the term “history” is arguably problematic, a priori denoting a heightened importance to gender.
Expanding this thought into the realm of art and more specifically perfumery, it is easy to see that the emblematic fragrances of modern perfumery have been mostly conceived
But Genius Has No Sex
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The sheer number of international exhibitions devoted to women artists is a sign of a new awareness of the hitherto underestimated contribution they have made to the history and development of art.”"To be celebrated in one’s own times only to fall int…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“American women seem to have internalized the message that wrinkles aren’t sexy. A 2006 study called “Sex After 40?” led by Laura Carpenter at Vanderbilt University concludes that middle-aged women who live alone have trouble seeing themselves — and o…
Read the rest here: Never Too Late to Learn FrenchBreast of Burden
from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“My breasts took over my sense of self. I was never unaware of them, and everything I did physically, I did in terms of them: from walking into a room (slumped), to driving the car (seatbelts were impossible), to sleeping (flattening one side or the ot…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“A separate, exclusive season for them may be conside