Features

In conversation with Senzeni Marasela

Last year Senzeni Marasela created an art installation called Jonga: the Museum of Women, Dolls & Memories, in a shop-front in Huntly, Scotland. Here Marasela talks to Claudia Zeiske about Barbie and the ways that beauty standards and pressures impose differently on women of colour and white women

Published: 17 March 2010 | Category: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Interviews, Racism, Work and Play | Written by Various Authors

Writing women back into punk

In the second installment of her series, Cazz Blase looks at how punk was covered by the music and feminist presses, the work of female journalists, and how women punks came to be largely written out of the history books

Published: 14 March 2010 | Category: Culture and Media, Herstory | Written by Cazz Blase

Painful vagina? Your poor husband!

S's experience with vulvar vestibulitis - which makes penetrative sex painful - highlighted the phallocentric medical establishment and limited definitions of sex

Published: 14 March 2010 | Category: Body and Health, Men, Sex and Relationships, Soundbites | Written by S

Adventures in self-publishing

Can print-on-demand and self publishing help feminists today continue the legacy of the suffragettes & the women's liberation movement? Deborah Withers considers the potential

Published: 10 March 2010 | Category: Culture and Media | Written by debi withers

Reviews

Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 - Reflections

Catherine Redfern gives some personal reflections on the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference

Published: 18 March 2010 | Category: Events, Reviews | Written by Catherine Redfern

Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century

Jess McCabe reviews Justine Larbalestier's collection of 11 stories and accessible essays, which provide an engaging introduction to feminist scifi

Published: 17 March 2010 | Category: Books | Written by Jess McCabe

Women

This three-part BBC documentary has many interesting moments, say Charlotte Cooper and Jess McCabe. However, the series fails to adequately represent women of colour's involvement in feminism and conceives of the family through a heteronormative lens

Published: 8 March 2010 | Category: Television | Written by Various Authors