Features

'Hasn't anybody ever told you a handful is enough?'

Boys groped her, men shouted at her on the street, and girls and women reacted with hostility. Samara Ginsberg reports on growing up with large breasts

Published: 14 December 2008 | Category: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Violence | Written by Samara Ginsberg

Time to end parental leave discrimination

Jennifer Gray argues that parental leave laws must become more flexible

Published: 8 December 2008 | Category: Family, Stereotypes, Work and Play | Written by Jennifer Gray

Now That's What I Call Misogyny!

Molly Lavender is exasperated at gender segregation in music – and the way pop songs valorise abusive relationships

Published: 4 December 2008 | Category: Culture and Media, Sex and Relationships, Stereotypes, Violence | Written by Molly Lavender

Why feminists shouldn't have to keep mum

A feminist challenge to sexism within the current cult of motherhood is needed, argues Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Published: 4 December 2008 | Category: Body and Health, Family, Feminism, Work and Play | Written by Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Choice and disability

Are feminist pro-choice politics on selective abortions sidelining the concern of disabled people? Victoria Al-Sharqi argues the case

Published: 1 December 2008 | Category: Body and Health, Feminism | Written by Victoria Al-Sharqi

Reviews

Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness / Raciality

debi withers reviews a collection on the intersection of race and queer politics, which slips between first-person narratives, manifestos and academic tracts

Published: 14 December 2008 | Category: Books | Written by debi withers

Cunning Stunts: women's theatre in the 1970s and '80s

The Unfinished Histories CD provides a tantalising window into the history of women's theatre troupes, says Red Chidgey

Published: 8 December 2008 | Category: Spoken Word | Written by Red Chidgey