{"id":15287,"date":"2017-04-27T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15287"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T12:27:12","slug":"the-history-of-female-sex-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/the-history-of-female-sex-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Female Sex Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717_1224_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"474\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maureen Shaw wrote about the surprisingly(?) successful history of female sex strikes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The original and most famous fable comes from the Greek play Lysistrata, where the Peloponnesian War was ended thanks to a sex strike.<\/li>\n<li>But their success is more than just myth. In the 1600s Iroquois women won the right to veto future wars through a sex strike.<\/li>\n<li>In 2003 Leymah Gbowee won a Nobel Prize for ending Liberia&#8217;s civil war, in part through the organization of a strike.<\/li>\n<li>In Kenya women used the strategy to end political infighting and establish a stable government in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>And in 2010 women in one Colombian city used the same tactic to bring down the murder rate by 26.5%.<\/li>\n<li>Sex strikes have also brought peace in The Philippines.<\/li>\n<li>To be successful sex strikes need to have specific demands in smaller, well-knit communities.<\/li>\n<li>One hopes, however, that we&#8217;ll eventually live in a world without sexism, where women can exercise power through formal mechanisms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/958346\/history-shows-that-sex-strikes-are-a-surprisingly-effective-strategy-for-political-change\/\">Quartz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maureen Shaw wrote about the surprisingly(?) successful history of female sex strikes: The original and most famous fable comes from the Greek play Lysistrata, where the Peloponnesian War was ended thanks to a sex strike. But their success is more than just myth. In the 1600s Iroquois women won the right to veto future wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/042717_1224_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15290,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15287\/revisions\/15290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}