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Posted in Anti-Heroines, International, Politics, Society, Women on Oct 8th, 2011
How wonderful to hear that the Nobel Committee has awarded the 2011 Peace Prize to three women who have made a huge contribution to improving conditions in their home countries and furthering the cause of women there and all over the world. In a press release the Norwegian Nobel Committee explained that it had “decided [...]
Posted in All About My Mother, Anti-Heroines, Blast From the Past, Family, Feminism, Parenting, Personal, Relationships, Women on Sep 30th, 2011
A note from the editors: This is the first in a new regular series of posts, All About My Mother, in which Anti-room writers reflect on the women who made them the women they are today. Some are their own biological mothers, some are not. But all are important. This month my mum turned 70. [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Books, Economics, Environment, Feminism, Film, International, Politics, Society, Women on Sep 29th, 2011
Perhaps the most distressing statistic emerging from the current economic crisis is that the suicide rate in Greece is reported by the Wall Street Journal to have risen by at least 40%. The Greek collapse is described as a financial catastrophe of their own making but with soaring unemployment, harsh cuts to education and healthcare budgets and [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Guest Posters, History, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
Among my many favorite things, (which include bacon fries, anything Mark Gatiss has ever done, the word ‘phantasmagoria’ and theme parks, to name but a few) one that ranks rather highly is stories about eccentric, unconventional and often brazen women who happily disregarded what was socially acceptable for their gender in the times they lived [...]
Posted in Anti-heroes, Anti-Heroines, Body image, Education, Feminism, Ireland, LGBTQ Issues, Media, Personal, Politics, Sport, Women on Aug 12th, 2011
“I DON’T KNOW which of us is worse off,” said my aunt. She felt growing up that she had no choice but to marry and have children. “But I look at you and my girls and you have so many choices that it must be difficult to make one and not feel you are missing [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Music, Women on Jul 24th, 2011
I’ve never been one for raw pain. It’s the quality that was, some claim, the essence of Amy Winehouse, her life, her songs. This is musical hindsight. What I heard at the time had more notes than that. The winter of 2003 was fading into 2004 and I would stay in bed late on weekends to listen to [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Beauty, Celebrity, Personal on Jul 21st, 2011
A friend of mine was recently looking through some old photos and commented, “I noticed you never smile with your teeth showing!” To be honest, I barely know how to smile with my teeth showing because it’s something as a teenager I decided I would never do. While I have a perfectly straight set of [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Feminism, Film, Guest Posters, Television on Jun 29th, 2011
Regina de Búrca shares her role models from the world of science fiction and fantasy… From Penelope Pitstop screaming “Help! Help!” to the girls in Captain Caveman cooing “Ooooh Cavey!” I can’t say feminist role models featured highly during my early childhood. And even before I was old enough to understand how highly sexualised Barbie [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Feminism, Film, Women on Jun 24th, 2011
I was a teenage vampire slayer, at least in spirit I was. While my friends were partying and growing ever more distant, I had a toddler and my week rotated around Thursday not Saturday night. My love affair with Buffy lasted 7 seasons; for 40 minutes a week I was treated to wisecracking, strong, real [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Celebrity, Feminism, Film, Sex, Women on Jun 7th, 2011
Ava Gardner adopts the confident poise of a non conformist A lo-fi internet connection coupled with inventory lapses in both Laser and HMV has left me with a hard-nosed jones to watch Mogambo, the 1953 flick starring Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Clark Gable. After reading Ava Gardner’s memoir Ava: My Story, where she isolated [...]
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