Straight sex: the politics of pleasure
By Lynne Segal
Virago Press 1994
Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins
Male power "authentically originates in the penis", claims Andrea Dworkin in her book Pornography: men possessing women. Such views,
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At the upcoming UN Environment Program (UNEP) Governing Council in Nairobi in May, it is likely that delegates will vote to start the process to change the current voluntary Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedures for chemicals and pesticides into a
Pen friends wanted
[We have received the following requests from prisoners in the United States seeking pen friends.]
When all attempts fail, empty loneliness demands me to try harder. Attractive, caring, compassionate gentleman, w/m on
ADELAIDE — Flinders University students gathered at the plaza on February 28 for a "Hunt for Chubb". Students were anxious to hear the new vice chancellor, Ian Chubb's attitude towards the fees issue. He was encouraged to publicly field questions
Sunshine Coast students walk out
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Students at Nambour High School in the Sunshine Coast hinterland walked out of school in late February in support of Honey Marich, a 15-year-old classmate excluded for wearing a
CFMEU bans demolition
By Chantal Wynter
MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has backed a campaign by Broadmeadows teachers and community leaders to stop the government from bulldozing the caretakers'
By Tom Burghardt
SAN FRANCISCO — Four California women's health centres were attacked in the first half of February. The latest in a series of arson attacks occurred on February 15 when a fire was started at the Planned Parenthood facility in
NAWAL HASSAN OSMAN, founder of the Sudanese Women's Organisation Yed El Marra (Women's Fist), is touring Australia, promoting Community Aid Abroad's Walk Against Want on March 26. Osman is a campaigner against female genital mutilation in Sudan. She
TWS exclusive?
On February 17 a small demonstration against woodchipping was organised in Wollongong by The Wilderness Society (TWS). The demonstration was a positive step for the environment movement in Wollongong, but sadly the organiser of
Aboriginal death in Long Bay
SYDNEY — "The hanging death of Brian Joe Ballard at Long Bay Jail Hospital is the second death to occur this year", said Ray Jackson, public officer of the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee.
"How
BRISBANE — The Council for Civil Liberties has condemned state attorney-general Dean Wells' handling of the proposed new Criminal Code as a disaster and asked Premier Wayne Goss to withdraw it. In a 19-page letter to Wells, council vice-president
By Eva Cheng
The creative accounting of a 28-year-old whiz-kid in faraway Singapore blew open a US$1 billion hole into which the British merchant bank Barings fell, never to emerge. Observers fear that other financial "time bombs" are still
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