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		<title>Gender Inequality: CC204 &amp; The Claims of Esquire&#8217;s Editor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.bu.edu/core/2013/03/23/gender-inequality-cc204-the-claims-of-esquires-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Relating to last week&#8217;s lecture by Professor Mears on gender inequality and Hochschild&#8217;s readings, are two articles discussing the claim made by the Esquire&#8216;s editor, that &#8220;women are there to be beautiful objects&#8221;. Some extracts: &#8220;The women we feature in the magazine are ornamental,&#8221; he said, speaking at the Advertising Week Europe conference in London on Tuesday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CC204: Living Wage Calculator</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This spring, the class of CC204 has been looking at inequality in terms of race, gender, social class and financial standing. &#8220;Poverty in America&#8221; has provided a very useful tool to investigate inequality in terms wages across the United States, the Living Wage Calculator: http://bit.ly/Ykr2NZ Simply enter your home town and find out how much money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Analects of the Core #170: Collapse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a book that sometimes plays a part in CC106, Jared Diamond&#8217;s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, here is today&#8217;s analect: The Greenland Norse did succeed in creating a unique form of European society, and in surviving for 450 years as Europe&#8217;s most remote outpost. We modern Americans should not be too quick [...]]]></description>
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