In honour of consent week Breaking the Glass Ceiling has put together a number of submissions that talk about consent and all the different ways that we experience it. Anonymous I grew up in an incredibly political household. As such, I’ve never been a stranger to the idea that the private and the personal is…
Month: November 2017
In Remembrance: Daphne Caruana Galizia
Andreea Badiu-Slabu is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. On 17th October, the world of journalism lost Daphne Caruana Galizia, a woman with a resounding voice. She started her own blog in 2008 called Running Commentary to express her views of what was right and wrong in Malta. As her former employer wrote…
What is ‘White Feminism’?: An analysis of Forever 21’s ‘FEMINIST’ crop top
Leah Olasehinde is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Due to social media and youth empowerment, fashion has become a large platform for expressing feminism. However, there are fundamental flaws with this medium. Each problem with using fashion to empower feminism is revealed after having asking 3 questions: Who would wear it? Who…
SHOOTING AND SEX: FEMINISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND THE 1930s FARM RELIEF
Molly Lindsey is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, as the United States economy faced significant distress, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographed “Madonnas of the Field”. These so called “Madonnas” were women typically living and working on farmland, who suffered greatly as a result of…
Is Gender Essentialism bad for the intersectional feminist movement?
Harriet Whitehead is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Gender Essentialism says that there is a specific feature or ‘essence’ that defines what it is to be a woman. This is often held to be a negative theory from the feminist perspective. This is because with the definition, many people feel a normative…
Microfinance and the Empowerment of Women
Pooja Sajanani is a regular contributor to Breaking the Glass Ceiling. Since its inception in 1976, microfinance has had a feminist association. In 2016, out of the 132 million clientele of microfinance which cumulatively borrowed $102 billion, 84% were women. Many studies have shown that the availability of microcredit has increased women’s mobility, political participation…
Decriminalizing prostitution: the right of women to sell their bodies, or the right of men to have unlimited access to women’s bodies according to their economic power?
Sandrine Birkeland is a Philosophy student, interested in poetry and Hannah Arendt. In May 2017, Amnesty International adopted a policy supporting the decriminalization of prostitution, removal of laws criminally targeting practices within the sex industry: solicitation, brothel keeping, and living off the proceeds of prostitution. Amnesty claims decriminalization best defends the human rights of sex…
Dreamers Crushed: The End of DACA and its Implications on Migrant Women in America
Molly Lindsey is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. Last month, the Trump administration announced an end to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a U.S. initiative implemented by former President Barack Obama, which provides temporary protection to young migrants. The federal program specifically provides rights for persons brought to the U.S. illegally…
Dove’s Latest Advert Shows That Colonialist Ideology Is Still Alive And Kicking
Sophie Perry is one of Breaking the Glass Ceiling’s regular contributors. When one thinks about advertisement campaigns, most of us only see the end product. In a world where ‘we are exposed ‘to as many as 5,000’ [1] advertisements a day, our lives are saturated by images on social media, television, buses and billboards. Thus,…