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Catherine Redfern gives some personal reflections on the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/03/womens_liberati 2010-03-18T23:51:37Z 2010-03-18T23:02:28Z Catherine Redfern http://www.thefword.org.uk/

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/claudia_zeiske 2010-03-17T15:51:21Z 2010-03-17T15:57:13Z Various Authors

Jess McCabe reviews Justine Larbalestier's collection of 11 stories and accessible essays, which provide an engaging introduction to feminist scifi

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/03/daughters_of_ea 2010-03-14T13:26:39Z 2010-03-17T12:59:44Z Jess McCabe http://sugarcrash.co.uk/

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

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/women_in_punk_w 2010-03-15T10:41:08Z 2010-03-14T22:22:45Z Cazz Blase

S's experience with vulvar vestibulitis - which makes penetrative sex painful - highlighted the phallocentric medical establishment and limited definitions of sex

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/painful_vagina 2010-03-14T12:11:52Z 2010-03-14T14:52:09Z S

Can print-on-demand and self publishing help feminists today continue the legacy of the suffragettes & the women's liberation movement? Deborah Withers considers the potential

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/03/adventures_in_s 2010-03-15T15:56:58Z 2010-03-10T20:02:28Z debi withers http://www.debi-rah.net/

This three-part BBC documentary has many interesting moments, say Charlotte Cooper and Jess McCabe. However, the series fails to adequately represent women of colour's involvement in feminism and conceives of the family through a heteronormative lens

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/03/women 2010-03-08T00:34:35Z 2010-03-08T00:12:19Z Various Authors

Women'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

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/02/women_in_punk_t 2010-02-28T20:56:31Z 2010-02-28T22:50:01Z Cazz Blase

Do you think feminism's job is done? Kat Banyard's book will remove your rose-tinted glasses, says Jess McCabe

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/the_equality_il 2010-02-27T17:21:10Z 2010-02-27T12:39:27Z Jess McCabe http://sugarcrash.co.uk/

Christiane Inmann's history of women's reading and writing is a delicious read, says Jessica Gjergji

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/lighting_a_fire 2010-02-22T22:55:54Z 2010-02-22T22:54:12Z Jessica Gjergji

The protagonist of Angela S. Choi's comic debut novel channels the anger of every woman who has been belittled or demeaned, says Kaite Welsh

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/hello_kitty_mus 2010-02-21T11:13:49Z 2010-02-21T10:59:39Z Kaite Welsh http://kaitewelsh.posterous.com/

Kaite Welsh reviews a fictionalised biography of early paleontologist Mary Anning

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/the_fossil_hunt 2010-02-03T22:31:10Z 2010-02-04T21:43:01Z Kaite Welsh http://kaitewelsh.posterous.com/

Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein's book reclaims the road trip and tells a story about what young women across the US think about feminism and the issues facing them as women, says LonerGrrrl

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/girldrive 2010-02-04T16:52:01Z 2010-02-04T16:53:10Z LonerGrrrl http://lonergrrrl.wordpress.com/

What has happened to the legacy of riot grrrl? asks Heather McIntosh

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/02/bring_the_herst 2010-02-06T22:09:36Z 2010-02-03T14:58:36Z Heather McIntosh

Natasha Walter's latest book reflects her change of heart since The New Feminism, but Melanie Newman argues the result is a mixed bag

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/02/living_dolls 2010-02-05T10:53:49Z 2010-02-03T10:05:53Z Melanie Newman

Susie Orbach's classic Fat is a Feminist Issue became suddenly relevant to Helen Dring in the aftermath of a car accident which caused her to lose weight

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/01/feminism_and_fa 2010-01-31T16:00:55Z 2010-01-31T10:58:21Z Helen Dring

Women working in corporate finance are expected to adhere to sexist and objectifying dress codes, says Amica Lane

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/01/the_professiona 2010-01-28T16:14:03Z 2010-01-24T19:56:15Z Amica Lane

Stereotypes about women drawn to campaigning because they are natural nurturers do more harm than good, argues Mhairi Guild

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/01/in_our_satin_ti 2010-01-14T22:01:36Z 2010-01-14T22:51:22Z Mhairi Guild

Despite plaudits from politicians, women's sport gets less media coverage than men's sport, says Natalie Davis, and sports pages largely feature women as eyecandy not athletes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/12/a_question_of_s 2009-12-18T22:58:02Z 2009-12-18T16:01:59Z Natalie Davis

Susan Gilbert takes us on a tour of the Pompidou Centre's groundbreaking rehanging of its collection to showcase the last 100 years of art through work by women

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/12/women_hung_in_p 2009-12-18T12:25:50Z 2009-12-17T19:47:11Z Sue Gilbert