<p>PJW Note: This post originally appeared on October 28, 2013. Yet, as a recent Op-ed in The New York Times, &#8220;Pregnant, and No Civil Rights,&#8221; clearly demonstrates, the problems Reiheld addresses have only gotten worse. With over 2,000 hits in the past three days, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/not-all-objectification-is-sexual-the-return-of-the-fetal-container-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p

<p>PJW Note: This post originally appeared on October 28, 2013. Yet, as a recent Op-ed in The New York Times, &#8220;Pregnant, and No Civil Rights,&#8221; clearly demonstrates, the problems Reiheld addresses have only gotten worse. With over 2,000 hits in the past three days, &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/not-all-objectification-is-sexual-the-return-of-the-fetal-container/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p>

<p>I suspect that many of us will read this recent piece from The Guardian, “‘I didn’t feel drunk, not even tipsy’: The rise of female drink-drivers,” with a slightly nervous, guilty eye, mentally totting up where we stand in the drinking stakes and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/the-rise-of-problem-drinking-among-uk-women/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;"

<p>Once again, I&#8217;m not entire sure how I feel about this. Good for her, I suppose &#8212; though I remain skeptical about how much this actually advances a meaningful feminist body-image agenda. Still, considering the &#8220;enhancements&#8221; in the promotional shot below, I &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/keira-knightley-poses-topless-in-act-of-feminist-opposition-to-photoshopped-female-bodies/">Continue reading <span class="met

<p>Many of you will have already seen this viral video &#8212; published on October 28, with already more than 33 million views &#8212; by the Hollaback! organization. If not, have a look. Therefore, it is one of the best ayurvedic &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/hollaback-video-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Shar

<p>Many of you will have already seen this viral video &#8212; published on October 28, with already more than 33 million views &#8212; by the Hollaback! organization. If not, have a look. Erectile dysfunction can be caused due to a &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/11/hollaback-video/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share

<p>Undercover Colors and Good2Go are technological tattletales. Both are designed to tell the truth about an encounter, with the objectivity and dispassion of a database or a chemical reaction. Tattletale solutions make sense only if we see rape, fundamentally, as &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/rape-is-not-a-data-problem-the-tech-sector-has-tackled-sexual-violence-like-it-tackles-laundry-delivery-and-entirely-missed-the-point/">Continue

<p>Undercover Colors and Good2Go are technological tattletales. Both are designed to tell the truth about an encounter, with the objectivity and dispassion of a database or a chemical reaction. Tattletale solutions make sense only if we see rape, fundamentally, as &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/rape-is-not-a-data-problem-the-tech-sector-has-tackled-sexual-violence-like-it-tackles-laundry-delivery-and-entirely-missed-the-point-2/">Contin

<p>Following up on Ula Klein&#8217;s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites. It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn&#8217;t suffer repercussions. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/rise-of-the-feminist-tinder-creep-busting-web-vigilante-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px

<p>Following up on Ula Klein&#8217;s last contribution, yet another online forum in which women are subject to undue harassment: online dating sites. It would be ridiculous if a stranger showed you his penis in a bar and didn&#8217;t suffer repercussions. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/rise-of-the-feminist-tinder-creep-busting-web-vigilante/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px;

<p>A reader brings this to my attention with a request I share it with the rest of our readership: Recently, eight Iranian women have had acid thrown in their faces under the pretext of &#8220;mal-veiling&#8221;. This kind of attack is &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/mal-veiling/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share

<p>By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University), co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University) Medical travel, and more specifically transnational reproductive travel, is a burgeoning practice—and an ethically controversial one because it so clearly capitalizes on differences in &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/now-available-ijfab-special-issue-on-transnational-reproductive-travel/">Continue reading <span

<p>By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University), co-guest editor of the issue together with Jocelyn Downie (Dalhousie University) Medical travel, and more specifically transnational reproductive travel, is a burgeoning practice—and an ethically controversial one because it so clearly capitalizes on differences in &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/now-available-ijfab-special-issue-on-transnational-reproductive-travel-2/">Continue reading <spa

<p>Things have come to a dismal pass for disabled people in Britain. That this country, once seen as a pioneer in the promotion of human rights (admittedly you have to go back to the 1950s and 60s for that, but &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/un-investigation-into-britains-violation-of-disabled-peoples-human-rights/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="h

<p>By Leah D. Smith (Director of Public Relations, Little People of America) and Joseph A. Stramondo (Assistant Teaching Professor, Health Administration Department, Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions) A middle-aged man who decided to commute to work through &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/musings-on-the-value-of-awareness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:

<p>I look back on all my strenuous efforts, because I really did try, I tried hard to be a man, to be a good man, and I see how I failed at that. I am at best a bad man. &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/ursula-k-le-guin-on-being-a-man/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso-share-buttons"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https://www.hupso.com/share/ --><a c

<p>By Françoise Baylis (Dalhousie University) In 2012, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) lifted the experimental designation on human egg freezing. At this time, it was careful to indicate that freezing technology should not to be used for elective &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/left-out-in-the-cold-seven-reasons-not-to-freeze-your-eggs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="paddi

<p>Malala Yousafzai first came to my attention when a friend posted a link to a video of an interview she gave on The Daily Show. He is someone for whose intellect and soundness of judgment I have great respect, and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/sorting-through-mixed-reactions-to-malala-yousafzai-or-a-brief-rant-on-the-centrality-of-the-humanities-for-a-flourishing-democracy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></

<p>Malala Yousafzai first came to my attention when a friend posted a link to a video of an interview she gave on The Daily Show. He is someone for whose intellect and soundness of judgment I have great respect, and &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/sorting-through-mixed-reactions-to-malala-yousafzai-or-a-brief-rant-on-the-centrality-of-the-humanities-for-a-flourishing-democracy-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a>

<p>In case anyone could use a little dose of humor (or &#8212; hey! &#8212; the opportunity to donate to a fine cause): Yesterday, Sarah Silverman helped launch a crowdfunding campaign, The Equal Payback Project, to raise $30 trillion. Yes, you &hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://www.ijfab.org/blog/2014/10/sarah-silverman-fights-the-wage-gap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span></a></p> <div style="padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;" class="hupso