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Threatened, intimidated, bullied, violated: this is hospital birth as many mothers experience it. Amity Reed reports on the little-recognised crime of birth rape

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/03/not_a_happy_bir 2008-03-07T21:27:24Z 2008-03-07T20:14:45Z Amity Reed http://noblesavage.me.uk/

All over the planet women are denied the most basic rights. Ruthie Samuel asks: where is the outrage?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/02/uk_feminists_mu 2008-02-06T00:19:20Z 2008-02-04T21:47:25Z Ruthie Samuel

Jo Legg asks, when will feminists take over the Home Office?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/02/crime_and_patri 2008-02-04T10:14:21Z 2008-02-03T23:26:26Z Jo Legg

Alex Gibson considers the harm done by stereotypes of men as beer-swilling, emotionally-stunted brutes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/02/men_stereotypes 2008-02-02T19:12:49Z 2008-02-02T17:01:01Z Alex Gibson

Corsets were bad news for Victorian women, argues Laurie Penny, and modern incarnations are little better

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/02/of_corset_matte 2008-02-14T17:31:50Z 2008-02-02T11:17:57Z Laurie Penny http://steerpikelet.livejournal.com/

Claire Daly interviews the first editor of pioneering feminist magazine Spare Rib

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/marsha_rowe 2008-02-06T00:41:33Z 2008-01-31T23:20:27Z Claire Daly

Ever been called a 'slag'? How about 'frigid'? Jennifer Drew explains how such derogatory language is used to keep women in their place

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/how_the_word_sl 2008-01-31T23:06:57Z 2008-01-31T08:19:07Z Jennifer Drew

Episode three of The F Word podcast - on the tricky topic of pornography - is out now!

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/the_f_word_podc_1 2008-02-10T21:52:20Z 2008-01-14T21:35:16Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

How can I tell if I am a feminist? Can I be a married feminist with children? Check out The F Word's new 'ask a feminist' feature for more

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/ask_a_feminist 2008-01-18T00:01:06Z 2008-01-10T21:46:22Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

Helen G considers why some feminists are hostile to transgender women

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/a_period_of_tra_1 2008-01-02T17:19:35Z 2008-01-02T20:20:53Z Helen G

Porn should be reformed, not banned, argues Laurie Penny

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/against_censors 2008-01-02T19:30:43Z 2008-01-02T17:46:06Z Laurie Penny http://steerpikelet.livejournal.com/

Lads' mags are responsible for my eating disorder, says Hannah Whittaker

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/glamour_models 2008-01-02T21:49:02Z 2008-01-02T17:23:31Z Hannah Whittaker

Antonia Strachey explains why she took part in a protest against a beauty contest for students at the London School of Economics

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/01/miss_lse_or_mis 2008-01-02T15:29:40Z 2008-01-02T15:20:11Z Antonia Strachey

The self-hating mindset, if not the medical condition, of anorexia is frighteningly common, argues Katie Muller

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/12/filling_the_hol 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-12-06T23:02:57Z Katie Muller

Jessica Metheringham explores how the concept of the 'Female Vote' tends to cast women as fickle and uninterested in serious politics

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2007/12/the_place_of_th 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-12-06T21:57:00Z Jessica Metheringham