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Feminism has failed and needs a radical rethink

  • Written by: The Conversation Contributor
imageWomen need to recalibrate feminist action so that it's not just about them advancing in society on men's terms.Shutterstock

There was a 1970s badge that declared:

Women who want equality with men lack ambition.

This statement neatly sums up the broad intentions of second-wave feminists to create radical shifts of gender power. On International...

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Sex workers of the world unite! How striking French sex workers inspired a global labour movement

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When we occupy the churches,

you are scandalised,

religious bigots!

You who threatened us with hell,

we have come to eat at your table,

at Saint Nizier.

– Protest song penned by sex workers who occupied French churches during an eight-day 1975 strike.

It is a little-known fact that New South Wales was the first government in the world to remove all...

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