thanks again alternet! below, an excerpt from sex pill for women article: Even though Boynton declined, Boehringer-Ingelheim invited her to write a paper for the British Journal of Sexual Medicine. “They had clear instructions about what they wanted me to say and how this would set the scene that HSDD was a prevalent and distressing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘exploitation’
sex pill for women: big pharma trying to profit from another made-up illness?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, exploitation, pharmaceuticals, power, sex, sexuality on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Representations of Sex/uality
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advertising, brown university, exploitation, feminism, gender, images, language, media, objectification, power, relationships, sex, sexism, sexualization on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Or, alternatively titled: “Making the Brown Sex Week 2010 Poster” (This is a cross-post from the SHEEC blog/my blog) My goals were that the poster: Wouldn’t imply a certain relationship status Wouldn’t be objectifying and just like any other ad on TV Wouldn’t be heteronormative (and ideally not homonormative, either, which is…not easy to do–most [...]
Eyes of the Heart
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged colonization, exploitation, Haiti, imperialism on January 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The following excerpt is from Eyes of the Heart, by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the first democratically-elected president of Haiti, now in exile in South Africa. Around the world what is called the informal sector makes up a $16 trillion-a-year economy. Of this women are responsible for $11 trillion. In Haiti, where official unemployment is about 70%, [...]
HAITI
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged earthquake, exploitation, Haiti on January 20, 2010 | 2 Comments »
in light of the recent earthquake and aftershock in Haiti, i want to make a post that is perhaps not directly relevant to our mission on this blog, but is nonetheless terribly important. during humanitarian crises such as this, marginalized groups in society suffer the most. now i have absolutely no claim to an exhaustive [...]
“menopause, as brought to you by big pharma”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cultural shame, exploitation, menopause, nytimes on December 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From this NYT article: In the popular 1966 book “Feminine Forever,” Dr. Robert A. Wilson, a gynecologist, used disparaging descriptions of aging women (“flabby,” “shrunken,” “dull-minded,” “desexed”) to upend the prevailing idea of menopause as a normal stage of life. Women and their physicians, Dr. Wilson wrote, should regard menopause as a degenerative disease that [...]
The Vaccine that only sometimes works
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged disease, exploitation, HPV vaccine, media, medicine on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was skeptical when all the buzz about the HPV vaccine began. This post reflects some of my concerns about it. We already knew that women everywhere, including in the west, are used as tools to uphold the current world order, which includes the enrichment of the super-wealthy corporations concentrated in the U.S. and Europe, [...]
Mothers in the Military
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged exploitation, military, nytimes on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now girls, you all know you’ll be demonized for deciding not to have children. But you should know that if you have a child, and do everything in your power to provide for her, including risking your life in the military, there’s a whole new shit storm waiting for you. We Americans sure do appreciate [...]
