Features

Filling the hole

The self-hating mindset, if not the medical condition, of anorexia is frighteningly common, argues Katie Muller

Published: 6 December 2007 | Category: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Feminism, Men | Written by Katie Muller

The place of the 'Female Vote' in politics

Jessica Metheringham explores how the concept of the 'Female Vote' tends to cast women as fickle and uninterested in serious politics

Published: 6 December 2007 | Category: Politics and Current Affairs | Written by Jessica Metheringham

How not to write your policy on transgender rights

A Home Office policy that should help protect transgender civil servants from discrimination? Great news. But, asks Emma Wood, why does it insist that women and men have different brains?

Published: 5 December 2007 | Category: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Language, Work and Play | Written by Emma Wood

Feeling a bit uncomfortable?

Who wants to be told they have an incompetent cervix? Jane Purcell reports from the maternity ward

Published: 4 December 2007 | Category: Body and Health, Family, Language | Written by Jane Purcell

Does 'gender neutral' language serve to cover up male violence?

Gender-neutral language applies to male criminals, but not to their female victims, argues Jennifer Drew

Published: 3 December 2007 | Category: Culture and Media, Language, Men, Violence | Written by Jennifer Drew

Reviews

Revolution Girl Style Now!

Jess McCabe reviews a book which documents the powerful girl-centric political and cultural movement that was riot grrrl

Published: 7 December 2007 | Category: Books | Written by Jess McCabe

How to Look Good Naked

How to Look Good Naked is a make-over show with a noble purpose - to make women feel good about themselves, argues Dawn Kofie

Published: 6 December 2007 | Category: Television | Written by Dawn Kofie