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<title type="text">The F-Word: Work and Play</title>
<subtitle type="text">Contemporary UK feminism.</subtitle>
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<title type="text">No access to the women&apos;s room </title>
<summary type="text">Going clothes shopping as a disabled woman is a nightmare, says D H Kelly</summary>
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<updated>2012-01-29T13:04:17Z</updated>
<published>2012-01-30T18:00:27Z</published>
<author>
<name>D H Kelly</name>
<uri>http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com </uri>
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<title type="text">She gives me fever</title>
<summary type="text">Porn is not for everyone: but it can be for feminists,  Mia Engberg tells Sophie Mayer, as her programme of shorts screens in London</summary>
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<updated>2012-01-17T22:24:52Z</updated>
<published>2012-01-13T17:46:48Z</published>
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<name>Sophie Mayer</name>

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<title type="text">A man&apos;s world? Darryn De La Soul on being a sound engineer</title>
<summary type="text">Ruth Rosselson interviews Darryn De La Soul, whose achievements include mixing the sound at the 50th anniversary of the Jodrell Bank observatory, work with Faster than Sound and teaching the live sound diploma for Alchemea</summary>
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<updated>2011-11-09T15:09:23Z</updated>
<published>2011-11-09T09:28:01Z</published>
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<name>Ruth Rosselson</name>
<uri>http://ruthrosselson.net/</uri>
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<title type="text">The politics of office dress</title>
<summary type="text">Melanie Davis usually wears grey trousers suits to work. Switching to a smart, clingy dress prompted a disconcerting change in her colleagues</summary>
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<updated>2011-12-12T15:48:50Z</updated>
<published>2011-10-11T12:40:01Z</published>
<author>
<name>Melanie Davis</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Young women: unemployed and on the shelf? </title>
<summary type="text">As the economy fails to bounce back, young women are struggling to enter the workplace. Joanne Fradley calls for women in the workplace to reach out and help</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/09/unemployment_women</id>
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<updated>2011-09-29T14:17:55Z</updated>
<published>2011-09-28T10:58:46Z</published>
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<name>Joanne Fradley</name>

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<title type="text">Women&apos;s football: a kick in the teeth? </title>
<summary type="text">The Women&apos;s World Cup is well underway, but the game is languishing for lack of support, argues Joanne Fradley</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/07/womens_world_cup</id>
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<updated>2011-07-20T18:17:53Z</updated>
<published>2011-07-06T14:55:30Z</published>
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<name>Joanne Fradley</name>

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<title type="text">That&apos;s not my name</title>
<summary type="text">Changing name is a hassle. But what is rarely acknowledged is just how much the current systems place a burden on cis women and trans people that is not shared by cis men. Jane Fae reports</summary>
<category term="/features/work_and_play" scheme="http://www.thefword.org.uk/" label="Politics and Current Affairs" />
<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/04/not_one_of_your</id>
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<updated>2011-04-10T20:33:39Z</updated>
<published>2011-04-10T22:38:14Z</published>
<author>
<name>Jane Fae</name>

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<title type="text">Why feminists should join the fightback against higher education cuts and fees</title>
<summary type="text">Critical skills taught on university humanities courses challenge the world view of students and make them a breeding ground for resistance to the status quo, argues Nola Kay</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/04/feminist_defence_of_the_humanities</id>
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<updated>2011-04-01T20:27:23Z</updated>
<published>2011-04-01T20:59:41Z</published>
<author>
<name>Nola Kay</name>

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<title type="text">Equal pay and the fight for equality in the workplace</title>
<summary type="text">Why don&apos;t more women pursue their legal right to equal pay? Michelle Gordon explains</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/03/equal_pay_and_t</id>
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<updated>2011-03-09T14:30:39Z</updated>
<published>2011-03-09T23:34:16Z</published>
<author>
<name>Michelle Gordon</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">A room of her own</title>
<summary type="text">Bidisha runs writers&apos; retreats. She reports that the women who attend struggle to carve out the time and psychological space for their work</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2011/02/a_room_of_her_o</id>
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<updated>2011-02-28T21:33:52Z</updated>
<published>2011-02-25T11:38:35Z</published>
<author>
<name>Bidisha</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Breaking the silence around miscarriage</title>
<summary type="text">Miscarriage is bad enough, without worrying about losing your job, says Emelyn Thomas </summary>
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<updated>2011-02-16T21:58:03Z</updated>
<published>2011-02-16T22:00:02Z</published>
<author>
<name>Emelyn Thomas</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">A woman engineer</title>
<summary type="text">Hayley Martin talks about the sexism she encountered on her path to become an engineer</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/07/a_woman_enginee</id>
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<updated>2010-07-15T18:33:50Z</updated>
<published>2010-07-11T22:12:46Z</published>
<author>
<name>Hayley Martin</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Back to burlesque </title>
<summary type="text">Has the shine come off burlesque as it mainstreamed? Chloë Emmott revisits her views</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/05/back_to_burlesq</id>
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<updated>2010-05-22T22:48:09Z</updated>
<published>2010-05-22T13:27:17Z</published>
<author>
<name>Chloe Emmott</name>
<uri>http://www.myspace.com/inannaamor</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">In conversation with Senzeni Marasela </title>
<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Last year Senzeni Marasela created an art installation called Jonga: the Museum of Women, Dolls &amp; Memories, in a shop-front in Huntly, Scotland. Here Marasela talks to Claudia Zeiske about Barbie and the ways that beauty standards and pressures impose differently on women of colour and white women]]></summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/claudia_zeiske</id>
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<updated>2010-03-17T15:51:21Z</updated>
<published>2010-03-17T15:57:13Z</published>
<author>
<name>Various Authors</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Bring the herstory of riot grrrl back into the present</title>
<summary type="text">What has happened to the legacy of riot grrrl? asks Heather McIntosh</summary>
<category term="/features/work_and_play" scheme="http://www.thefword.org.uk/" label="Culture and Media" />
<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/02/bring_the_herst</id>
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<updated>2010-02-06T22:09:36Z</updated>
<published>2010-02-03T14:58:36Z</published>
<author>
<name>Heather McIntosh</name>

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