Veils and vaginas – why do patriarchies control sex? 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: History , News , Patriarchy , No Comments In an incendiary article in Foreign Policy magazine titled Why Do They Hate Us? [link no longer works] Mona Eltahawy lays bare the “pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East” with a […]

Deconstructing Vincent Tabak 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , No Comments On Friday, 28 October 2011, 33-year-old Dutch engineer Vincent Tabak was convicted of murdering his neighbour, Joanna Yeates, in her Bristol apartment. The prosecution’s evidence showed that the burly Tabak gripped Yeates by the throat with one […]

The real crime of Jennifer Thompson 25 June 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Sexuality , No Comments On 5 September 2010, as the England football team prepared to face Switzerland in Basle for a vital 2012 European Championship qualifier, revelations emerged in the Sunday press regarding an alleged liaison between the […]

Lynndie England – Private Shame 13 April 2012 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: News , Shame , 1 Comment As a child, Lynndie England was once hit so hard with a table-tennis bat by her mother that the bat snapped. “I was brought up right,” she told Emma Brockes in an interview for the British newspaper The […]