Articles from January 2009
Feminist progress: undermined by the media?
Anna-Kate considers how the porn and beauty industries impact the self esteem of girls and women
Anna-Kate // 25 January 2009
Categories: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image
Breastfeeding: radical, feminist and good for you
Kate Joester explains how breastfeeding helped her understand 'the personal is political'
Kate Joester // 24 January 2009
Categories: Body and Health, Family, Feminism
IT's a man's world?
What drove 37,000 women in the UK to abandon careers in IT between 2001 and 2007? Sue Schofield investigates
Sue Schofield // 20 January 2009
Categories: Work and Play
Sex and the Substitutes
Alice Lawlor reviews some of 2008's Sex and the City copycats
Alice Lawlor // 18 January 2009
Categories: Television
Challenging sex object culture: definitely needed, definitely lively and definitely a key issue for 2009!
A recent feature in The Times labelled protests against the Miss University London beauty pagaents "old fashioned". But, argues Sandrine Levêque, if anything campaigns against the objectification of women and girls are more relevant today than ever
Sandrine Levêque // 4 January 2009
Categories: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Feminism, Racism, Sex and Relationships, Stereotypes, Violence, Work and Play
The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
Vandana Singh argues that speculative fiction has revolutionary potential. Jess McCabe reviews her latest collection of short stories
Jess McCabe // 4 January 2009
Categories: Books
