Articles from May 2008
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Jess McCabe // 21 May 2008
Categories: Comments
Are women and girls vulnerable?
Violent men do not attack girls or women because they are 'vulnerable', argues Jennifer Drew, and it deflects attention from the perpetrators to pretend otherwise
Jennifer Drew // 19 May 2008
Categories: Culture and Media, Men, Violence
The Oxbridge sex workers
Laurie Penny considers why so many Oxbridge students are going into prostitution and stripping, and the impact the media coverage of their stories has on women in less privileged positions
Laurie Penny // 11 May 2008
Categories: Culture and Media, Men, Politics and Current Affairs, Violence
A slice-by-slice attack on women's right to choose
The campaign to ban women from terminating pregnancies after 20 weeks is only the beginning, says Kit Roskelly
Kit Roskelly // 11 May 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Sex and Relationships, Work and Play
Sexuality and sainthood
Cranach painted Venus to titillate Luther's contemporaries and chaste virgins aimed at keeping women in check, argues Itala Atteih
Itala Attieh // 8 May 2008
Categories: Art
Hip hop ladies
Beyond the mainstream of 'gangster pop', Nino argues hip hop can be - and is - feminist
Nino // 7 May 2008
Categories: Culture and Media, Feminism
He's a stud, she's a slut?
Men get angry; women get PMS. Single men are bachelors; single women are spinsters. Jess McCabe wonders how Jessica Valenti limited herself to 49 examples of the double standard
Jess McCabe // 7 May 2008
Categories: Books
F.A.T.
Girls and women need to give themselves a break from the endless preoccupation with fat, argues Katie Muller
Katie Muller // 7 May 2008
Categories: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image
Stripping the illusion...
Lap-dancing clubs are licensed in the same way as coffee shops. Anji Capes reports on the launch of a campaign to change all that
Anji Capes // 3 May 2008
Categories: Activism, Politics and Current Affairs
