Ann Snitow meets Czech feminists

Women or Feminists? Assessing Women's Group Consciousness

Social psychological research often relies on measures of group identification in assessing levels o f group consciousness. However, for women, the relationship between gender identification and group consciousness may not be a straightforward one. Questionnaire data were used to examine the relationships between measures of group identity and group evaluations with other attitudinal, phenomeno...

What Sort of Sexual Equality (if Any) Should Feminists

The feminist critique of liberalism runs parallel to the Marxist critique of liberal equality and rights. In each case the objection is that a set of liberties and rights formally guaranteed for all does nothing to prevent unfair inequalities in substantive life prospects from burgeoning within this formally equal framework. Workers and capitalists are formally free to trade with each other on ...

Ann Harrison

Ethnicity meets gender meets class in Australia

Feminism in Australia is a political movement and a published discourse. Its activities range from Equal Employment Opportunity practices in the public service to 'cultural' production in such forms as academic literature and documentary film-making. For most immigrant women of non-English speaking background, the cultural arena of feminism is foreign, in many more ways than one. Feminism repre...

ANN in High Dimensions

1.1 Hypercube and Hamming distance Definition 1.1 The set of points Hd = {0, 1} is the d-dimensional hypercube. A point p = (p1, . . . , pd) ∈ Hd can be interpreted, naturally, as a binary string p1p2 . . . pd. The Hamming distance dH(p, q) between p, q ∈ Hd, is the number of coordinates where p and q disagree. It is easy to verify that the Hamming distance comply with the triangle inequality, ...