Features

UK feminists must address worldwide issues

All over the planet women are denied the most basic rights. Ruthie Samuel asks: where is the outrage?

Published: 4 February 2008 | Category: Culture and Media, Feminism, Politics and Current Affairs, Violence | Written by Ruthie Samuel

Crime and patriarchy

Jo Legg asks, when will feminists take over the Home Office?

Published: 3 February 2008 | Category: Feminism, Violence | Written by Jo Legg

Why men should care about gender stereotypes

Alex Gibson considers the harm done by stereotypes of men as beer-swilling, emotionally-stunted brutes

Published: 2 February 2008 | Category: Activism, Culture and Media, Men, Stereotypes | Written by Alex Gibson

Of corset matters

Corsets were bad news for Victorian women, argues Laurie Penny, and modern incarnations are little better

Published: 2 February 2008 | Category: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image | Written by Laurie Penny

Reviews

Lust, Caution

Only a cog in the wheel? Joanna Tocher reviews a thought-provoking film about one woman's role in the Chinese resistance

Published: 9 February 2008 | Category: Films | Written by Joanna Tocher

An interrupted life

Etty Hillesum was an 'impassioned, erotically volatile, restless' woman, who was murdered during the Holocaust. Cazz Blase reviews her diaries

Published: 8 February 2008 | Category: Books | Written by Cazz Blase