Articles from March 2010
Comments from February 2010
Comments sent in during February
Jess McCabe // 23 March 2010
Categories: Comments
Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 - Reflections
Catherine Redfern gives some personal reflections on the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference
Catherine Redfern // 18 March 2010
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
Various Authors // 17 March 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Interviews, Racism, Work and Play
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
Jess McCabe // 17 March 2010
Categories: Books
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
Cazz Blase // 14 March 2010
Categories: Culture and Media, Herstory
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
S // 14 March 2010
Categories: Body and Health, Men, Sex and Relationships, Soundbites
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
debi withers // 10 March 2010
Categories: Culture and Media
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
Various Authors // 8 March 2010
Categories: Television
Comments from January 2010
Comments received in January 2010
Jess McCabe // 2 March 2010
Categories: Comments
