Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2009-11-18T22:11:00Z

Wisrutta Atthakor reports back from the Gude Cause march through Edinburgh, 100 years to the day since Scottish suffragettes took to the city's streets

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/a_gude_cause_ma 2009-11-18T22:11:00Z 2009-11-18T15:35:27Z Wisrutta Atthakor http://pumpkinpistudio.blogspot.com/

Charlotte Cooper reports back from the capital's second Feminism in London conference

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/10/feminism_in_lon 2009-10-24T18:17:42Z 2009-10-13T19:25:14Z Charlotte Cooper http://www.subtextmagazine.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

Once Anna Corbett would have laughed at the idea she'd call herself a feminist. Here she explains what changed her mind

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/07/confessions_of 2009-07-13T12:10:54Z 2009-07-13T09:49:54Z Anna Corbett

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

Terese Jonsson calls for all white feminists (herself included) to step up to the plate on racism and white privilege

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/piercing_the_wh 2009-03-16T23:19:12Z 2009-03-16T19:22:35Z Terese Jonsson

Want to make connections with grassroots feminist activists across borders and languages? Melanie Maddison talks to Red Chidgey about an online project that aims to help us do just that

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/who_are_you_and 2009-03-03T23:28:54Z 2009-03-03T21:44:16Z Melanie Maddison

Tara Atluri reflects on the Do You Remember Olive Morris? project and the Remembering Olive Collective

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/03/olive_would_hav 2009-03-09T12:06:40Z 2009-03-02T23:05:38Z Tara Atluri

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/

Kate Joester explains how breastfeeding helped her understand 'the personal is political'

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/01/breastfeeding_r 2009-01-25T18:45:12Z 2009-01-24T22:03:48Z Kate Joester

A recent feature in The Times labelled protests against the Miss University London beauty pagaents "old fashioned". But, argues Sandrine Levêque, if anything campaigns against the objectification of women and girls are more relevant today than ever

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/01/sex_object_culture 2009-01-04T20:22:42Z 2009-01-04T19:19:35Z Sandrine Levêque

A feminist challenge to sexism within the current cult of motherhood is needed, argues Victoria Dutchman-Smith

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/12/why_feminists_s 2008-12-04T19:46:02Z 2008-12-04T19:23:12Z Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Are feminist pro-choice politics on selective abortions sidelining the concern of disabled people? Victoria Al-Sharqi argues the case

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/12/recently_i_stum 2008-12-04T19:50:32Z 2008-12-01T17:59:56Z Victoria Al-Sharqi

Irish and British women must unite in the battle for reproductive rights, argue Ariel Silvera and Sinead Ahern, as they sketch out the history of abortion in Ireland and the UK

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2008/10/were_all_in_thi 2008-10-26T23:56:49Z 2008-10-26T23:03:52Z Various Authors