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Going clothes shopping as a disabled woman is a nightmare, says D H Kelly

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2012/01/no_access_ 2012-02-06T23:11:32Z 2012-01-30T18:00:27Z D H Kelly http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com

Porn is not for everyone: but it can be for feminists, Mia Engberg tells Sophie Mayer, as her programme of shorts screens in London

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2012/01/she_gives_me_fever 2012-01-17T22:24:52Z 2012-01-13T17:46:48Z Sophie Mayer

'Natural' beauty demands hard labour to appear effortlessly beautiful and blemish-free. Brash, flamboyant, over-the-top makeup and clothes can let us reclaim our image, argues Shona McCombes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/12/in_defence_of_fake 2012-02-08T18:28:17Z 2011-12-23T17:15:06Z Shona McCombes

Anti-choice campaigners are trying to turn back the clock on abortion - and attitudes to women's sexual identity, argues Adriana Pérez

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/10/abortion_sexuality 2011-11-24T07:49:06Z 2011-10-27T21:44:41Z Adriana Pérez

Miscarriage is bad enough, without worrying about losing your job, says Emelyn Thomas

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/02/breaking_the_si 2011-02-16T21:58:03Z 2011-02-16T22:00:02Z Emelyn Thomas

A flurry of reports on birth rape have prompted a backlash against women who use the term to describe their assault experiences. Amity Reed responds

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/09/its_not_rape_ra 2010-09-30T22:28:29Z 2010-09-30T14:26:39Z Amity Reed http://noblesavage.me.uk/

Cystitis is bad enough, says Hannah Fearn. But why are doctors so dismissive?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/08/honeymoon_cysti 2010-08-15T20:47:34Z 2010-08-15T19:40:32Z Hannah Fearn

Pregnant celebrities post for photoshoots, we have childbirth-focused reality TV shows - but, argues Sara De Benedictis, only a sanatised, product-driven version of natality has gained the limelight

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/08/the_birth_of_a 2010-08-04T20:08:54Z 2010-08-04T11:23:32Z Sara De Benedictis

Anti-choice lobbyists are gearing up as the new coalition government settles in. We should not let them define the terms of debate, says Lisa Ansell, instead we should push for women's right to access abortion to be shored up

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/06/is_it_time_for 2010-06-01T20:53:41Z 2010-06-01T11:11:41Z Lisa Ansell http://deeplyflawedbuttrying.wordpress.com/

Has the shine come off burlesque as it mainstreamed? Chloë Emmott revisits her views

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/05/back_to_burlesq 2010-05-22T22:48:09Z 2010-05-22T13:27:17Z Chloe Emmott http://www.myspace.com/inannaamor

Bryony Long talks through how she resisted the dubious directions of a doctor in A&E

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/05/what_happens_wh 2010-04-26T20:57:29Z 2010-05-01T12:42:41Z Bryony Long

S's experience with vulvar vestibulitis - which makes penetrative sex painful - highlighted the phallocentric medical establishment and limited definitions of sex

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/painful_vagina 2010-03-14T12:11:52Z 2010-03-14T14:52:09Z S

Susie Orbach's classic Fat is a Feminist Issue became suddenly relevant to Helen Dring in the aftermath of a car accident which caused her to lose weight

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/01/feminism_and_fa 2010-01-31T16:00:55Z 2010-01-31T10:58:21Z Helen Dring

Laura Thomas talks through her experience going from red mane to shaved head

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/a_streamlined_n 2009-11-18T21:11:25Z 2009-11-13T12:43:17Z Laura Thomas

Forget which body-shape is 'fashionable' - women are more than just their bodies, argues Lara Williams

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/06/some_body_to_lo 2009-06-07T22:21:59Z 2009-06-07T20:33:01Z Lara Williams