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<title type="text">The F-Word: Racism</title>
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<title type="text">Feminism and the vampire novel</title>
<summary type="text">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</summary>
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<name>Caitlin Brown</name>

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<title type="text">Piercing the whitening silence</title>
<summary type="text">Terese Jonsson calls for all white feminists (herself included) to step up to the plate on racism and white privilege</summary>
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<updated>2009-03-16T23:19:12Z</updated>
<published>2009-03-16T19:22:35Z</published>
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<name>Terese Jonsson</name>

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<title type="text">Olive would have told me to shut up and do something</title>
<summary type="text">Tara Atluri reflects on the Do You Remember Olive Morris? project and the Remembering Olive Collective
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<updated>2009-03-09T12:06:40Z</updated>
<published>2009-03-02T23:05:38Z</published>
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<name>Tara Atluri</name>

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<title type="text">Challenging sex object culture: definitely needed, definitely lively and definitely a key issue for 2009! </title>
<summary type="text">A recent feature in The Times labelled protests against the Miss University London beauty pagaents &quot;old fashioned&quot;. But, argues Sandrine Levêque, if anything campaigns against the objectification of women and girls are more relevant today than ever </summary>
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<updated>2009-01-04T20:22:42Z</updated>
<published>2009-01-04T19:19:35Z</published>
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<name>Sandrine Levêque</name>

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<title type="text">Whose feminism is it?</title>
<summary type="text">Is feminism reaching women of colour? How about women who didn&apos;t go to university, teenage mums, or women who do not have access to the internet? Annika Spalding calls for change</summary>
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<updated>2008-09-23T13:42:04Z</updated>
<published>2008-09-22T20:35:09Z</published>
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<name>Annika Spalding</name>
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<title type="text"><![CDATA[Carmen out swinging: Sally Potter takes on opera&apos;s femme fatale]]></title>
<summary type="text">Most productions of the classic opera Carmen would make a feminist wince. Movie director Sally Potter tells Sophie Mayer about her new adaptation</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:01Z</updated>
<published>2007-09-04T19:24:32Z</published>
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<name>Sophie Mayer</name>

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<title type="text">What does the politics of hair say about modern Britain?</title>
<summary type="text">Racism and sexism are intertwined - so feminism must tackle them both head-on, says Veronica Wood-Querales</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:01Z</updated>
<published>2007-08-30T20:28:11Z</published>
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<name>Veronica Wood-Querales</name>

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