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		<title>Vaginismus: Feminist Vaginas, thank you for being rebels!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Painting by Vanessa Tiegs, done with menstrual blood and acrylic. Vaginismus awareness is almost non-existent &#8211; a very sad thing, for a variety of reasons. Take a look at this wonderful, humorous and caring site: http://www.vaginismus-awareness-network.org/ and please take your time to hang out there. Vaginismus refers to a behaviour of the vagina that won&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=256&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Break that glass slipper part II: on royal weddings, fairy tales and Disney princesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The royal wedding hysteria caused many of us to raise an eyebrow. It is true: princes and princesses fascinate not just little girls but women too; men though, rarely. Fairy tales used to be the common people’s entertainment. 19th century’s efforts to create national identities and most notably brothers’ Grimm collection of folklore stories in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=173&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy genre: the gate to women’s country</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it was mentioned in my post about Game of Thrones, Teitelbaum made an excellent remark on the fact that fantasy is not just for boys and men. She writes: The characterization of fantasy as &#8220;boy fiction&#8221; is offensive to the genre and offensive to women. That we for the most part will only read what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=152&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game of Thrones: in case you doubted, it IS feminist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 07:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must admit it, I was suspicious at the beginning. The TV show is abundant in sex and blood, causing some reviewers like this one repulsive feelings. Let me remind you that a singled-out element of a story does not make it a priori good or bad. Let us judge the aesthetics and the actual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=143&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/recommendations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 07:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Constant work in progress of my recommendations on books, film, television even video games can be found here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=136&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Break that glass slipper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child, I was thirsty, ravenous for stories. But alas, they wouldn’t give me any, at least not the kind I enjoyed. I took a look at my favourite books as a child and they were of two kinds: one, packed with mystery and/or adventure; two, interesting female leads. Dianna Wynne Jones wrote very honestly that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=124&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seirei no Moribito (精霊の守り人) &#8220;Guardian of the Spirit&#8221;: a matriarchy myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(spoiler warning) If you’re looking for a nice anime to watch, this might be a good choice for you. It’s the story of Balsa, a woman bodyguard, and the little prince Chagum whom she’s sworn to protect, set in a fantasy feudal Japan. Two women in SnM There are two impressive female leads: first, Balsa. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=14&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dracula: Victorian sexual ennui</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not from an academic point of view. It&#8217;s from a purely personal one, explaining why I found it hard to like this story. Well, I can&#8217;t say Dracula has ever been much of an interest to me, so it was only natural not to have read the book and not even watched a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=16&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twilight: misogyny has fangs now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, we&#8217;ve all heard about it. Some of us have even read it. Take a look at the outrageous mr Leonard Sax here. &#8220;Yet on some level, it seems that children may know human nature better than grown-ups do. Consider: The fascination that romance holds for many girls is not a mere social construct; it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=17&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Liveship Traders: Characters! Characters! Characters!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, I’m writing something about my favourite fantasy writer, Robin Hobb. This woman introduced me to characters who are realistic, who breathe, a plot that genuinely combines down-to-earth politics and a stunning high-fantasy background, all these wrapped in wonderful storytelling. More importantly, she puts there women who are worth reading. Each and every woman character [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=paperbackfeminist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=22266026&amp;post=18&amp;subd=paperbackfeminist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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