Articles from August 2009
Creative writing at The Women's Library
Yasmin Eshref attended a creative writing course for girls and young women at The Women's Library
Yasmin Eshref // 14 August 2009
Categories: Events
Turn your back on Page 3
Francine Hoenderkamp explains her campaign to ban Page 3
Francine Hoenderkamp // 13 August 2009
Categories: Activism, Culture and Media
How do I look in this, on this, doing this, with this...?
Feminist artists have often used the tactic of exaggerating the objectification of women to the point of parody. But Alex Brew questions how subversive this strategy is in practice
Alex Brew // 11 August 2009
Categories: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image
Baby Beauty Queens
Eleanor M. reviews a BBC3 documentary about a beauty pageant for pre-teen girls
Eleanor M. // 4 August 2009
Categories: Television
Beyond Noughtie Girls
Ellie Levenson's guide to feminism for the "noughtie girl" apologises too much and asks for too little change, says Laurie Penny
Laurie Penny // 2 August 2009
Categories: Books
The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism
Although Ellie Levenson's feminist primer makes some sensible points, this is undermined by a raft of offensive statements, a defence of rape jokes and a desire to speak only to the young, white, able-bodied, straight, educated and middle-class, argues Amity Reed
Amity Reed // 2 August 2009
Categories: Books
