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http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/claudia_zeiske 2010-03-17T15:51:21Z 2010-03-17T15:57:13Z Various Authors

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

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/women_in_punk_w 2010-03-15T10:41:08Z 2010-03-14T22:22:45Z Cazz Blase

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

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/adventures_in_s 2010-03-15T15:56:58Z 2010-03-10T20:02:28Z debi withers http://www.debi-rah.net/

Women's involvement in British punk has been marginalised and written out of mainstream histories. In the next few months, The F-Word will run a series of features on women in punk by Cazz Blase. By way of introduction, here she sketches out her own first encounters with the genre, and carries out a vox pop in Manchester to gauge whether the person on the street can name any women in punk

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/02/women_in_punk_t 2010-02-28T20:56:31Z 2010-02-28T22:50:01Z Cazz Blase

What has happened to the legacy of riot grrrl? asks Heather McIntosh

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/02/bring_the_herst 2010-02-06T22:09:36Z 2010-02-03T14:58:36Z Heather McIntosh

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

Despite plaudits from politicians, women's sport gets less media coverage than men's sport, says Natalie Davis, and sports pages largely feature women as eyecandy not athletes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/12/a_question_of_s 2009-12-18T22:58:02Z 2009-12-18T16:01:59Z Natalie Davis

Girlguides can offer girls a respite from pressure of gendered expectations. Clare Burgess offers her perspective as a late-joiner

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/12/girls_in_the_le 2009-12-08T16:19:14Z 2009-12-07T20:29:51Z Clare Burgess

Producer Jan Chapman spoke to Jess McCabe by phone from Sydney about women in the film industry - and her latest movie Bright Star

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/bright_star_and 2009-11-16T21:40:14Z 2009-11-16T11:51:53Z Jess McCabe http://sugarcrash.co.uk/

Are the scales of justice in alignment? Rachel Thwaites looks at how women and men are so often treated differently by the system if they commit violent crimes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/gender_and_sent 2009-11-18T15:13:10Z 2009-11-14T12:01:13Z Rachel Thwaites

Primary schools are no utopia of skipping rope and gender blind comradery. Instead, girls are already learning to worry about their looks - and boys are learning male privilege, reports teacher Kate Townshend

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/10/self_esteem_and 2009-10-25T21:58:46Z 2009-10-25T21:29:58Z Kate Townshend http://www.katetownshend.co.uk/

Much has been written about sexism in the Twilight books and film. Here, Caitlin Brown puts the series in context of other popular vampire fiction

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/09/feminism_and_th 2009-09-08T20:56:03Z 2009-09-08T16:41:31Z Caitlin Brown

Francine Hoenderkamp explains her campaign to ban Page 3

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/08/dear_clare_i_ha 2009-08-14T17:38:44Z 2009-08-13T12:18:22Z Francine Hoenderkamp

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

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/08/how_do_i_look_i 2009-08-12T09:21:53Z 2009-08-11T07:41:19Z Alex Brew

Molly Lavender considers a slew of calendars which reduce women to body parts

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/07/calendar_girls 2009-07-22T20:08:45Z 2009-07-22T19:31:55Z Molly Lavender