Features

Challenging The 'Sex Sells' Cliche

Everywhere you turn these days there are sexualised images of women's bodies as porn becomes more and more mainsteam. Rachel Bell investigates the growing protest movement against the normalisation of porn in everyday life.

Published: 12 February 2006 | Category: Culture and Media | Written by Rachel Bell

Pretending That Men Aren't Grown-Ups

Ellery takes issue with a Times article entitled "Pretending That Women Aren't Grown-Ups", which said that women should change their behaviour to prevent being raped. Ellery argues that that expecting women to take responsibility for rapists' actions is a double standard which sees men as irrational brutes and rape as a fact of life.

Published: 12 February 2006 | Category: Men, Violence | Written by Ellery

Deconstructing Masculinity

Sheryl Plant argues that masculinity needs to be questioned and critiqued just as much as the concept of femininity; only then can male violence be fully addressed.

Published: 11 February 2006 | Category: Men | Written by Sheryl Plant

Reviews

Make Me Perfect

Helen Reeves is shocked at Make Me Perfect: a programme that encourages women with low self esteem to comply with mainstream sexist views on beauty rather than question them.

Published: 11 February 2006 | Category: Television | Written by Shelley Rees