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<title type="text">The F-Word: Herstory</title>
<subtitle type="text">Contemporary UK feminism.</subtitle>
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<title type="text">Are you writing in permanent marker?</title>
<summary type="text">What happens when a brilliant feminist blog gets deleted, or an online magazine disappears? The Women&apos;s Library is ensuring that as many resources as possible leave a more permanent mark through the British Library Web Archive, Inderbir Bhullar explains</summary>
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<updated>2011-11-20T18:36:37Z</updated>
<published>2011-11-20T21:20:35Z</published>
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<name>Inderbir Bhullar</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Women&apos;s erasure from women&apos;s memorials</title>
<summary type="text">The only memorial to women&apos;s contributions in World War II depicts empty clothing. Carolyn Dougherty considers what this says about the erasure of women from public spaces. With contributions from Alex Wardrop</summary>
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<updated>2012-01-10T13:39:53Z</updated>
<published>2011-06-16T14:46:30Z</published>
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<name>Carolyn Dougherty</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">A woman called Toothpaste: an interview with Lucy Whitman</title>
<summary type="text">Cazz Blase interviews Lucy Toothpaste, who wrote the fanzine JOLT and played a central role in the punk feminist movement</summary>
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<updated>2011-05-22T15:57:43Z</updated>
<published>2011-05-20T20:25:08Z</published>
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<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">The revolution is in you</title>
<summary type="text">Chloe Stopa-Hunt looks back to the historical figure of Lucile Duplessis from the French Revolution and considers how she has been &apos;put back&apos; into history by modern writers</summary>
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<updated>2011-06-11T16:25:32Z</updated>
<published>2011-05-04T19:33:42Z</published>
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<name>Chloe Stopa-Hunt</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">&apos;I&apos;m 37 with enough stories for an 80 year old&apos;</title>
<summary type="text">Ece Temelkuran&apos;s passion for storytelling is clear in the first few minutes of meeting her. But, as a Turkish woman, some stories are dangerous for her to tell. Mary Pole reports</summary>
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<updated>2011-03-10T21:47:26Z</updated>
<published>2011-03-10T20:49:48Z</published>
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<name>Mary Pole</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Punk women write back</title>
<summary type="text">Women from the 1970s punk scene in the UK have not stood by as their contributions were erased from the music history books, but have documented that time with their own books and films. Cazz Blase reports</summary>
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<updated>2011-01-06T22:14:07Z</updated>
<published>2011-01-02T17:49:37Z</published>
<author>
<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">A modest reminder</title>
<summary type="text">On 2 March, 1911, Emily Davison hid in a broom cupboard in order to be registered as resident at the House of Commons on the census. Nearly 100 years later, as the next census approaches, David Standen revisits Davison&apos;s story</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/11/ive_been_hiding</id>
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<updated>2010-11-24T22:07:35Z</updated>
<published>2010-11-24T21:26:51Z</published>
<author>
<name>David Standen</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Women in punk: the return</title>
<summary type="text">The 1990s brought with them grunge, riot grrrl - and fresh inspiration for the women at the centre of Britain&apos;s 1970s punk scene. Cazz Blase continues her series</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/10/women_in_punk_t_2</id>
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<updated>2011-01-02T18:01:19Z</updated>
<published>2010-10-12T18:10:18Z</published>
<author>
<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<title type="text">Out with the old warrior queens, in with the new?</title>
<summary type="text">Boudicca&apos;s warrior-queen appeal to activists is enduring. But, argues Hanna Thomas, is it time to create some new myths?</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/10/out_with_the_ol</id>
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<updated>2010-10-03T17:19:32Z</updated>
<published>2010-10-03T12:06:19Z</published>
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<name>Hanna Thomas</name>
<uri>http://hannamade.wordpress.com/</uri>
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<title type="text">Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence, 30 years later</title>
<summary type="text">A J Conroy looks back at what we can learn about the need to form ties with other women from Adrienne Rich&apos;s famous essay</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/08/compulsory_hete</id>
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<updated>2010-08-15T19:32:51Z</updated>
<published>2010-08-15T11:15:54Z</published>
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<name>A.J. Conroy</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Women in punk: the disappearing years</title>
<summary type="text">What happened to the women of 1970s British punk once the 1980s dawned? Cazz Blase continues her series</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/07/women_in_punk_t_1</id>
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<updated>2010-11-20T21:40:23Z</updated>
<published>2010-07-22T21:32:05Z</published>
<author>
<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Sarkless Kitty and the ghosts of misogyny</title>
<summary type="text">A young woman transgresses against the strict gender roles of her time. Katharine Edgar considers the seed of truth behind ghost stories such as Sarkless Kitty </summary>
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<updated>2010-06-25T23:10:51Z</updated>
<published>2010-06-24T21:02:49Z</published>
<author>
<name>Katharine Edgar</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Women of the punk era </title>
<summary type="text">Cazz Blase interviews women of British 1970s punk on the music - and the politics, in part three of her series</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/04/women_of_the_pu</id>
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<updated>2010-11-20T21:30:04Z</updated>
<published>2010-04-24T22:19:06Z</published>
<author>
<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Writing women back into punk</title>
<summary type="text">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</summary>
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<updated>2010-11-20T21:20:43Z</updated>
<published>2010-03-14T22:22:45Z</published>
<author>
<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Women in punk: &apos;Too Good To Be Forgotten&apos; </title>
<summary type="text">Women&apos;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</summary>
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<updated>2010-11-20T21:12:14Z</updated>
<published>2010-02-28T22:50:01Z</published>
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<name>Cazz Blase</name>

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