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Eventbrite - Is literature the new politics?

Wednesday 23 May: Is literature the new politics?

John Siddique, Angelica Michelis and Ian Betts will introduce a discussion about the role the novel plays in shaping conversations about politics


 

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What slutwalkers think of dress codes

Slutwalks and the future of feminism

Opinion piece by Katherine Sansom June 2011

 

In January this year, addressing a group of students at a Toronto college, PC Michael Sanguinetti expressed the view that women “should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimised”.(1)


In February, a man in Canada was found guilty of rape but sentenced to probation, with Justice Robert Dewar asserting that the victim’s ‘tube top and heels’ must have suggested to the rapist that she wanted sex.(2)
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