Feminism Friday - 2024/10/18

[pheloniusfriar]

Feminism every Friday from 5PM to 78PM (-ish) Eastern time zone. Theory and Praxis. News roundup. Discussions. I do my ding dang best with my B.A. Hon. Women's and Gender Studies degree.

https://www.twitch.tv/oldmanphelonius

Here are the links to the articles and other material I referenced in today's show:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5e9d94dxjo (don't tease pub tigers in 1703)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/04/dutch-feminists-campaign-for-national-monument-to-witches
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4ngqy1vxyeo (Celebrity sex therapist Dr Ruth Westheimer dies at 96)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jul/14/ruth-westheimer-obituary
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-21/merle-thornton-dies-aged-93/104252220
https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/27/josephine-butler-the-forgotten-feminist-who-fought-the-uk-police-and-their-genital-inspections
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nn7gew9zxo (The woman who sold time - and the man who tried to stop her)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/parenting-village-1.7347040 (nuclear families destroyed our social fabric)

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68879492 (The fate of Korea's 'first and biggest' sex festival)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/gone-girl-10-year-anniversary/104430110

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/01/maria-sibylla-merian-17th-century-female-scientist-insect-illustrations-rijksmuseum-show
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/sep/01/female-astronomers-cecilia-payne-gaposchkin-play
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-doctor-set-to-be-first-canadian-woman-to-become-a-commercial-astronaut-1.7251721
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/the-salons-where-haircuts-are-priced-on-time-not-gender/103512396

Added at the end:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/famous-five-sculpture-moving-1.7225597 ("Women are Persons!")

A link to Catherine Parr Traill's groundbreaking and beautiful book "Studies of Plant Life in Canada", first published in 1885.
https://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/traill-plantlife/traill-plantlife-00-h-dir/traill-plantlife-00-h.html