Current feminism issues

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I'm getting less new but still new to feminism and this board so am not aware of all the current issues in feminism. I'm sick of hearing that this board focuses too much on GRA/trans issues (so please don't make this thread about those things) so I'd love to hear about other topics that are important. I'm not phrasing this well as currently ill and rather sleepy so please forgive my lack of eloquence Other posters have said they want to talk about other issues but none seem forthcoming so I remain in the dark. Please can anyone help shed some light and recommend any good feminism books too as I may as well educate myself as I lie here

I dont know any books but if you’re interested, there is the issue of the universal credit system and what it is doing to women, plus about a squillion other things that women have mentioned on this section.

Here is a brilliant documentary featuring Mumsnet favorites Linda Bellos and Julie Burchill. When feminists got angry.

Abortion is still on the books as a crime in the state where I live.

Pornography.

Need for Nordic model

Family Law Court being used by abusers to retraumatise their female victims.

Commercial surrogacy, the exploitation of women and girls in developing countries.

Domestic violence against children and women.

Women being left in poverty in retirement due to taking time out of work to raise the next generation of humans.

Pregnancy and maternity discrimination.

Care workers (nursery, childcare, elderly) being a pink collar industry and low pay.

You could have a look at the agenda for FiLiA next week - filia.org.uk/agenda2018/ There are obviously ID politics sessions, of course, but lots of other topics. Violence against women is the common thread, though. Many of the speakers have books out so it's a good jumping-off point.

This is awesome!
Germaine Green
(a very young) Catyln Moran
Janet Street Porter
Suzanne Green

Third wave feminism in all it's glory. #GirlPower

Rape and murder of girls and women world wide.

Education and literacy for girls and women in developing countries.

Rape as a tool of war.

Care burden falling on women more than men.

Period poverty.

FGM

Whoops, forgot video

Compulsory head and body covering for women

Media representations of women

Medical trials needing to recruit and collect date on women

Childbirth injuries

Supporting breastfeeding in a woman-friendly way

Period poverty
Maternity pay paid at a higher rate than paternity (our parental leave)
Forced married
Domestic violence
Today in the news a third of girls/young women said they had been sexually harassed in their school uniform and accepted this “as part of growing up”
Gender pay gap

Just a few off the top of my head..

Suggested Reading;
Feminist Current
www.feministcurrent.com/

Andrea Dworkin
radfem.org/dworkin/

Michelle Goldberg: The Means of Reproduction; Sex, Power & the future of the world
library.pcw.gov.ph/sites/default/files/The%20Means%20of%20Reproduction_%20Sex%2C%20Power%2C%20and%20the%20Future%20of%20the%20World.pdf

Theorising Patriarchy by Sylvia Walby.
libcom.org/files/Theorizing%20Patriarchy%20-%20Sylvia%20Walby.pdf

Backlash by Susan Faludi
seminariolecturasfeministas.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/faludi-susan-backlash-the-undeclared-war-against-american-women.pdf

Beauty and Misogyny by Sheila Jeffreys
www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Jeffreys_Beauty_and_Misogyny_Harmful_Cultural_Practices_in_the_West__Women_and_Psychology_1.pdf

The Spinster and her Enemies by Sheila Jeffreys
www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Sheila-Jeffreys-The-Spinster-her-Enemies.pdf

Mary Daly
www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/mary-daly-gyn-ecology-the-metaethics-of-radical-feminism.pdf

www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Mary-Daly-Beyond-God-the-Father-Toward-a-Philosophy-of-Womens-Liberation.pdf

Current hot topics include;

• the sex trade
• austerity measures which have disproportionately affected women, with record numbers of children being taken into care.
• defunding women's domestic violence shelters and rape crisis, sexual health clinics, and closure of the London FGM clinic
• Harassment of lesbians

Sorry if that's all a bit doom and gloom, but our rights are being systematically dismantled.

How about this one.

*SIX WOMEN DEAD IN FIVE DAYS IN AUSTRALIA

❤October 6, a woman is stabbed to death in Rockingham, WA. A man is in police custoody.
❤ October 5, a mother is found dead in her home at Bellambi, New South Wales. Her five-month-old baby, thankfully unharmed, was near her body. Police are searching for a male known to her.
❤ October 5, police attend a house fire in Mt Pleasant, Victoria. They find a woman dead. She had been assaulted.
❤ October 4, Northern Territory cops charge a man after a woman dies from assault wounds.
❤ October 3, a woman's body is found in a park at Hunters Hill in New South Wales. Media report her hands are bound and a "dog collar" is around her neck. Police are yet to identify this victim and no one has been charged.
❤ October 3, police charge a man with murder following the death of 46-year-old Gayle Potter. Police allege the mother-of-three's former husband deliberately ran Gayle down with a car at Traralgon in Victoria.

Source: The RED HEART Campaign/Australian Femicide Map

READ ABOUT IT HERE: www.couriermail.com.au/rendezview/six-days-seven-dead-women-when-will-we-wake-up/news-story/22ecb36b0237a12bf02bf54871c77a83€

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45777787

Porn culture. I regularly worked with teens up until quite recently and the impact has been obvious -it's a fucking tsunami and I'm sick of it.
Studies have been done proving the harm, but no action taken.
www-psychologytoday-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sex-lies-trauma/201107/effects-porn-adolescent-boys?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1&amp&usqp=mq331AQCCAE%3D#aoh=15390386721523&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychologytoday.com%2Fus%2Fblog%2Fsex-lies-trauma%2F201107%2Feffects-porn-adolescent-boys

Poverty for sure.

Thanks for all the comments I'm ashamed to say some of those didn't appear on my radar as feminist issues (I did say I was new ). I've experienced lots of them too as I'm sure have far too many other women.