Tag Archives: feminism
Comment, Television
Sick sad world: feminism and literature in Daria
Daria Morgendorffer, it’s time to stand up and be counted. Often topping lists compiled on the best examples of strong women in pop culture, cartoon hero Daria is strong, smart and sarcastic. She rejects the notion held by most of the women of Lawndale that a girl’s … Read more
Comment, Television
Sick sad world: feminism and literature in Daria
Daria Morgendorffer, it’s time to stand up and be counted. Often topping lists compiled on the best examples of strong women in pop culture, cartoon hero Daria is strong, smart and sarcastic. She rejects the notion held by most of the women of Lawndale that a girl’s … Read more
Reviews
Ann Patchett’s State of Wonder and Margaret Atwood’s Surfacing: 40 years on, how far have women come?
Ten years after her Orange Prize-winning novel Bel Canto, Ann Patchett returns to South America with State of Wonder. Marina – a forty-something, divorced pharmacologist – is engaged in a less-than-ideal affair with her boss, Mr Fox, head of large drug company Vogel. Vogel is funding … Read more
Issue Six
Issue Six teaser: Sophie Cunningham ‘A Prize of One’s Own: Flares, Cock-forests, and Dreams of a Common Language’
Disinterest in women – the overlooking of them, the walking out of the room without noticing their exclusion, the disavowal of them, the occasional hatred of them – is a profound and deep problem. It does not only affect women in publishing; it affects women in every industry, and women who work at home. Read more
Comment
Inclusive Feminist Futures: The Feminist Futures Conference and SlutWalk
When I ask women I know if they call themselves feminists, the answer is often ‘no’. However, when I ask if they believe women should have the same rights as men, freedom from sexual violence, and support each other to achieve these things, the answer quickly changes … Read more
Issue Two
Monica Dux on ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch‘: now in audio and video
Monica Dux appeared on Radio National’s Life Matters to discuss her article in Kill Your Darlings Issue Two, ‘Temple of The Female Eunuch: Germaine Greer Forty Years On’. In her article, Monica examines the critics and critiques of feminist Germaine Greer. Listen to the show here. On … Read more
Events
The Female Eunuch: 40 Years On (Melbourne)
Kill Your Darlings presents Monica Dux, Leslie Cannold and Karen Pickering in conversation about the impact of Germaine Greer’s classic feminist text, The Female Eunuch, at the time of publication and now, 40 years on. (And yes, we’ll also talk about that Nowra article.) This promises to … Read more
Books
In defence of the slut: Emily Maguire’s Your Skirt’s Too Short [review]
Hysteria about adolescent female sexuality is at fever pitch at the moment. You can’t open a newspaper without having some self-proclaimed figurehead like Michael Carr-Gregg shrilling about teenagers having orgies, tween stars pole dancing on MTV and the effect singing along to that Britney song about threesomes … Read more
