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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

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

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/

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

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

Protesters from Smash Miss Contest sneaked into the Miss London University beauty contest, releasing stinkbombs and distributing letters to the audience. Sarah Levack reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/04/stink_bombing_t 2009-04-27T21:11:11Z 2009-04-27T20:32:39Z Sarah Levack

On a mission to buy a new laptop, Posie Rider found that manufacturers and sales staff believe the best way to get women to buy a laptop is to make it pink

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/02/im_in_the_marke 2009-02-09T09:53:28Z 2009-02-07T21:21:49Z Posie Rider http://ladiesalone.blogspot.com/

Anna-Kate considers how the porn and beauty industries impact the self esteem of girls and women

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/01/feminist_progre 2009-01-25T20:48:05Z 2009-01-25T19:30:55Z Anna-Kate

Ala Abbas reflects on her decision to stop wearing the hijab

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/01/losing_my_hijab 2009-01-25T10:49:24Z 2009-01-24T23:06:38Z Ala Abbas http://www.ala-abbas.co.uk/

Boys groped her, men shouted at her on the street, and girls and women reacted with hostility. Samara Ginsberg reports on growing up with large breasts

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/12/i_was_saddened 2008-12-15T00:01:31Z 2008-12-14T23:42:21Z Samara Ginsberg

How would you feel if you found out the people around you chat about putting you forward for How to Look Good Naked? Kelly Draper knows all too well

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/08/forget_what_not 2008-08-13T20:13:58Z 2008-08-12T20:03:09Z Kelly Draper http://adventuresandjapes.blogspot.com

Girls and women need to give themselves a break from the endless preoccupation with fat, argues Katie Muller

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/05/fat 2008-05-09T13:01:55Z 2008-05-07T19:54:22Z Katie Muller

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://pennyred.blogspot.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