Blog moved to new address

I’ve moved this WordPress blog over to a new blogger address as it’s a much simpler and quicker format to use, i think. The new address is http://enga2.blogspot.com/

All the stuff posted so far is there and some new stuff too! I’ll invite existing users to join the new blog.

Women beware women

Joanna Bourke takes a look at coverage of women’s violence and asks why it’s not reported in the same ways as men’s violence.

Women Beware Women

Charlie Brooker on men

It’s typical Charlie Brooker style - opinionated, rude, a bit surreal – but lots of fun for taking  a look at gender from a different perspective.

Charlie Brooker in The Guardian

Encouraging understanding of difference

Here’s a piece from today’s BBC website about attempts to offer positive representations and increased understanding of mental health problems to teenagers.

We used The Curious Incident… as an example of a text that makes an intervention into how disability and mental health (or just perceived “weirdness”) might be represented, and this article could be a helpful complementary text.

Positive representations of young people

Article in this week’s Guardian about the “happiness league” for young people. This could be a useful counterpoint to the scaremongering of other, less flattering representations elsewhere on the blog.

More friends and emotional security…