By Mark Bahnisch on February 10, 2010
2009 ended with a flurry of discussion on religion and politics, and it’s a theme I imagine we’re going to hear a lot more of in 2010. I was ruminating on this question because of a couple of phrases which [...]
Posted in Law, Life, Parenting, Policy, Politics, Religion, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged altruistic surrogacy, census, Christianity, church attendance, conscience vote, Culture Wars, david clarke, family values, lobby groups, preselection, Queensland parliament, Religion, same sex couples, Sociology, surrogacy, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on August 27, 2008
It’s been 45 years since Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique. Via The Global Sociology Blog, I’ve just read this op/ed by historian Stephanie Coontz – author of Marriage, A History – writing in the Guardian to mark the anniversary. [...]
Posted in Activism, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Feminism, History, Industrial Relations, Middle East, Parenting, Poverty, Religion, Sexuality, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged anti-feminism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Betty Friedan, Culture Wars, defence of marriage, equal employment opportunity, families, family values, Feminism, feminism and religion, feminist movement, gender & equality, history of marriage, human capital theory, Islam, neoliberalism, same sex marriage, sex discrimination, Sociology, sociology of the family, Stephanie Coontz, The Feminine Mystique |
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