Blog posts by Catherine Redfern: 2010
Reminder: If you shop at Amazon, please support The F Word!
by Catherine Redfern // 6 December 2010, 19:16
(With apologies to regular readers, who will recognise this post from November! Of course, if you prefer not to shop at Amazon, we'd urge you to support your local independent bookshop instead.) If you are planning on buying presents via...
Weekly Round-Up and Open Thread
by Catherine Redfern // 28 November 2010, 23:51
Weekly round up! Let us know if we missed anything in the comments! Subway flasher picks the wrong woman to mess with (Jezebel) This trend of young Muslim girls wearing the hijab is disturbing (Guardian) "Reteaching Gender & Sexuality is...
Kat Banyard on BBC's HARDTalk
by Catherine Redfern // 10 November 2010, 22:08
Kat Banyard, author of The Equality Illusion and Director of UK Feminista was interviewed on BBC's HARDtalk programme. You can watch the interview on BBC iplayer here. Whether you agree with most of what Kat says or whether you don't,...
If you shop at Amazon, please support The F Word!
by Catherine Redfern // 6 November 2010, 11:58
I hesitate to mention the festive season so early in November, but maybe unlike me you're very organised and thinking about it already. So if you are planning on buying presents via Amazon over the next couple of months, why...
Visiting Scotland!
by Catherine Redfern // 27 October 2010, 19:11
Kristin Aune and myself are heading to Glasgow and Edinburgh this week to talk about our book, Reclaiming The F Word! Here's where we'll be: Thursday 28th October (Kristin Aune only - sorry I can't make it!) Glasgow University...
Feminism in London 2010
by Catherine Redfern // 22 October 2010, 20:06
Tomorrow, over 1000 feminists will converge in London for the annual feminist conference in the Capital, and this year's will be HUGE. Details here Speakers include Helena Kennedy, Natasha Walter, Ceri Goddard, Nadje Al-Ali, Beverley Beech, Naana Otoo-Oyortey, Rebecca...
Birmingham Reclaim the Night
by Catherine Redfern // 12 October 2010, 19:42
I'll be attending Birmingham Reclaim the Night march and rally this coming Saturday: Facebook Event Page Time: 16 October · 19:00 - 23:00 Location: VICTORIA SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM Join us on a women-only march in the city centre of Birmingham to...
Radio 4 Analysis: Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood?
by Catherine Redfern // 6 October 2010, 18:46
On Monday Radio 4 aired a programme called Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood?, as part of its Analysis series. You can listen again on the link above, or you can read the transcript. I am quoted on it briefly...
Fat Quarter magazine
by Catherine Redfern // 26 September 2010, 16:52
Lucky me: I received a copy of Issue 2 of Fat Quarter magazine, a slim but glossy 'countercultural ladies mag' which is sister publication to the blog/website. This issue, which looks as stylish as ever, has a 'women as...
Speaking events
by Catherine Redfern // 20 September 2010, 19:33
I'm going to be speaking at various events in the next couple of months about our book Reclaiming The F Word. Kristin Aune - my co-author - is doing some others too, which I'll post up when I have...
Calling all feminists in Edinburgh!
by Catherine Redfern // 10 September 2010, 18:25
On Saturday the 11th of September the Anarcha Feminist Kollectiv and Ladyfest Edinburgh have teamed up to bring you a pub quiz with a difference! The theme is 'radical women from herstory' and will feature a variety of different topics...
Red Pepper article: "Feminism: now for the good news"
by Catherine Redfern // 24 August 2010, 19:17
My article on contemporary feminism in June/July's issue of Red Pepper has now been published online. It's unashamedly optimistic; deliberately so, like our book, as a counterpoint to all the media messages we've had over the past few years telling...
Weekly Round-Up and Open Thread #3
by Catherine Redfern // 16 August 2010, 08:00
Each week there are things which we would love to blog about, but which pass us by. So, here is a weekly round-up of things we wanted to share. If there are things you want to add, consider this an...
Survey: Feminist issues
by Catherine Redfern // 14 August 2010, 17:04
As part of the survey of UK feminists undertaken for my book with Kristin Aune Reclaiming The F Word, we asked the 1265 respondents 'please list the three feminist issues that most interest or concern you.' Survey respondents could write...
How to Be Alone
by Catherine Redfern // 14 August 2010, 15:21
A quick google search suggests that many women feel uncomfortable being alone, especially in public situations. It's not that surprising, when we're encouraged to define ourselves in relation to men, and told that we put ourselves at risk by venturing...
Waterstones LSE, London - Tuesday 15th
by Catherine Redfern // 14 June 2010, 19:33
In London? Nothing to on Tuesday 15th June? Come and join me as I'll be speaking at 6pm at the Waterstones LSE / Economists bookshop, London about my book with Kristin Aune, Reclaiming The F Word, and what we're...
Book Launch - and Discount for Readers
by Catherine Redfern // 7 June 2010, 20:21
Discount for F word readers - see end of post On Thursday we celebrated the launch of my book with Kristin Aune, Reclaiming The F Word! We're proud to be part of a series of UK feminist books published recently,...
Find your local feminist group!
by Catherine Redfern // 3 June 2010, 11:55
UK Feminista have published a map showing local feminist groups. It's quite exciting to look at! Contact them to get your group added. More details on their website...
Reclaiming The F Word: our new book!
by Catherine Redfern // 30 May 2010, 14:28
My book with Kristin Aune - Reclaiming The F Word - is published next week! It's been a very long time coming and I can hardly believe it's finally here. Since I founded The F Word in 2001 I've been...
"We Need the Women Back at Work"
by Catherine Redfern // 18 April 2010, 17:31
David Cameron's tax break for married couples idea is pushing the idea that it's better for one parent to stay at home full-time to look after the kids (hm, I wonder which parent that would be?). This of course, ignores...
Interviewed!
by Catherine Redfern // 10 April 2010, 14:30
There's an interview with me up at Grassroots Feminism. I was interviewed by Red Chidgey, who asked me about setting up The F Word, my book with Kristin Aune, how co-writing works practically, and forms of activism. Read the full...
Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 - Reflections
by Catherine Redfern // 18 March 2010, 21:14
Photo of the Women Against Fundamentalism panel by helen.2006 used with a creative commons licence On 12-13th March I attended the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference held at Ruskin College, Oxford; the site of the original conference in...
What is feminism? First survey results
by Catherine Redfern // 17 March 2010, 23:44
How do feminists explain what feminism is? These images might give you a clue. [Image shows a 'cloud' of 50 words (e.g. women, equality, men, belief); the words are different sizes based on how frequently they were mentioned] They are...
Out of hibernation
by Catherine Redfern // 14 February 2010, 15:26
I've been pretty quiet for the last few months as I've been finishing my book (co-written with Kristin Aune) Reclaiming The F Word - The New Feminist Movement (annoyingly the title and some of the information on Amazon is...
Founder of The F-Word, Catherine Redfern, has co-authored a new book with Kristin Aune. Find out more at the 
