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There’s a difference between a sexist and a misogynist Labour MP Stella Creasy has been campaigning for misogyny to be classified as a hate crime – but how do you decide what qualifies? Stella Creasy says this is 'our moment for change' Credit: Niall Carson/PA Wire Misogyny: dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.” It’s an ugly word, it’s an ugly attitude, and, 2.500 years on from Classical Greece declaring misogyny “a disease”, it’s still everywhere. But is it criminal? And if so, how do you police it? “Rather than telling women not to worry about vi...

10 Interesting Facts About Population Control In Ancient Greece The demography of ancient Greece has always been a hard subject to study. Although ancient sources provide no reliable statistical data on childbirth, mortality, life expectancy, and other related metrics, we do know quite a bit about practices and issues that affected population levels. Ancient Greek folklore and imagery glorify the procreative energy of female sexuality. But we also know that under some circumstances, women wanted to avoid pregnancy or dispose of illegitimate, deformed, or sick children. Featured image credit: ...

JOURNAL NAME: ABSTRACT: Though considered the most democratic method of allocating citizens to office in Classical Greece, sortition (selection by lot) has never been adopted on a large scale by modern democracies (except for juries) and has fallen into oblivion. Recently, however, some political theorists, motivated by deep disappointment with current electoral practices, have been advocating a return to sortition without being sufficiently aware of the complexities involved in their ancient Athenian model. This study tries to explain the roots and ideology of sortition, the ways in which i...

Rhodes, P. J. (2003). Ancient Democracy and Modern Ideology. London Duckworth.

How to Co-Author a Book: Building Continuity and Avoiding Pitfalls Co-authors Simon Turney and Gordon Doherty share their top 5 tips for collaborating with another author on a project. Author: Meetups Every few months, we would find a rental cottage somewhere between our respective hometowns and book it out for a long weekend. These get-togethers were where the project kicked off properly, and where all the subsequent big decisions took place. In truth, I don’t think we wrote a single sentence on these weekends. It was all about chatting over beers and asking each other questions to challen...