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Regulating Relationships: Emotional Abuse and Violence
27 February 2013 3:29 PM | No CommentsAt a recent Manchester Salon event, Helen Reece and Anna Percy discussed new domestic violence legislation that expands the definition of DV to include 'emotional abuse' and 'coercive control'.
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Nude Norms: The Curious Case of the Castro
21 January 2013 3:25 PM | No CommentsChris Ashford and Sara Mohammadzadeh note how sexual freedom has shifted from the radical narrative of the 70s to the more cautious and homogenous attitude of the twenty-first century.
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“I can’t imagine why you would want to watch this…”
25 November 2012 11:03 AM | No CommentsJane Fae argues that the real danger to individual freedom lies in the sub-legal level: the legal establishment's view of what the law OUGHT to say.
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Extreme Pornography: Legal Theory, Institutional Reality
27 August 2012 4:15 PM | 5 CommentsFollowing the Simon Walsh case, Nick Cowen challenges the arguments of those academic legal theorists who claimed the objections to the 'extreme pornography law' were overwrought or unjustified.
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Reflections and Future Legal Directions After #porntrial
10 August 2012 12:32 PM | No CommentsChris Ashford was an expert witness in R v Walsh. He reflects here on the potential legal implications of the case.
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The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
09 May 2012 1:09 PM | No CommentsChris Ashford notes that, despite politics on both sides of the Atlantic being dominated by the subject of same-sex marriage, most politicians remain frustratingly vague about their views.
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Gender Archive
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Regulating Relationships: Emotional Abuse and Violence
Posted on February 27, 2013 | No CommentsAt a recent Manchester Salon event, Helen Reece and Anna Percy discussed new domestic violence legislation that expands the definition of DV to include 'emotional abuse' and 'coercive control'. -
The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage
Posted on May 9, 2012 | No CommentsChris Ashford notes that, despite politics on both sides of the Atlantic being dominated by the subject of same-sex marriage, most politicians remain frustratingly vague about their views. -
Marriage Equality?
Posted on March 26, 2012 | 3 CommentsChris Ashford says the government consultation on same-sex marriage has potentially historic implications, but its formal questions are limited and fail to engage with the real difficulties. -
The Sun Responds Over Trans Birth Story (interview)
Posted on February 17, 2012 | No CommentsJane Fae interviews Managing Editor of The Sun, regarding the paper's reporting of a trans man who has given birth. -
Sex in the Brain: Do Men and Women Think Differently? [VIDEO]
Posted on January 23, 2012 | 1 CommentA Battle of Ideas debate looks at the implications of neuroscience's claims of 'male' and 'female' brains. -
Latest News: The Fall of Obscenity & the Rise of Panic
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsLatest news from around the web: Michael Peacock, sex addiction, abstinence education, Tory feminism, and 'gay identity'. -
Defining Subordination
Posted on June 4, 2011 | 1 CommentNick Cowen examines some of the feminist arguments for the prohibition of pornography, and finds the underlying assumptions deeply problematic. -
Woman in a Box
Posted on June 3, 2011 | 1 CommentDanny Broderick reviews Sheffield Institute of Arts exhibition 'Stigmata': new work by artist Maiada Aboud (Salfiti). -
Relocating to the Man Cave
Posted on February 16, 2011 | 10 CommentsNob gags and bodily fluids: 'man cave' films offer a snapshot of young men's retreat from the public world. -
Israel, Palestine and the Hierarchy of Suffering
Posted on November 12, 2010 | No CommentsRiver Wolton attended the 2005 Women in Black conference and reports on her time in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
