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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/

Producer Jan Chapman spoke to Jess McCabe by phone from Sydney about women in the film industry - and her latest movie Bright Star

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/bright_star_and 2009-11-16T21:40:14Z 2009-11-16T11:51:53Z Jess McCabe http://sugarcrash.co.uk/

Are the scales of justice in alignment? Rachel Thwaites looks at how women and men are so often treated differently by the system if they commit violent crimes

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/gender_and_sent 2009-11-18T15:13:10Z 2009-11-14T12:01:13Z Rachel Thwaites

Laura Thomas talks through her experience going from red mane to shaved head

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/11/a_streamlined_n 2009-11-18T21:11:25Z 2009-11-13T12:43:17Z Laura Thomas

Primary schools are no utopia of skipping rope and gender blind comradery. Instead, girls are already learning to worry about their looks - and boys are learning male privilege, reports teacher Kate Townshend

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/10/self_esteem_and 2009-10-25T21:58:46Z 2009-10-25T21:29:58Z Kate Townshend http://www.katetownshend.co.uk/

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

Christina McDermott reviews Marie Mutsuki Mockett's deft debut novel, which follows two sequential mother-daughter stories

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/picking_bones_f 2009-10-05T13:19:49Z 2009-10-05T17:05:01Z Christina McDermott http://giro-playgirl.livejournal.com/

Artist Carolee Schneemann may be best-known for 'Interior Scroll', in which she read from a scroll she extracted from her vagina. But, at 70, her influence stretches far beyond that one famous performance piece. Kaite Welsh attended her recent lecture at the Tate Liverpool

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/for_the_past_50 2009-10-04T22:22:46Z 2009-10-04T21:50:12Z Kaite Welsh http://www.modernbluestocking.blogspot.com/

The Raincoats are as vital as ever, argues Lydia Harris, who left their recent gig determined to join a grrrl band

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/the_raincoats_p 2009-10-05T10:14:25Z 2009-10-04T21:30:10Z Lydia Harris http://myswimsuitissues.blogspot.com/

Salma's debut novel is a moving and beautifully-written must-read, says Sian Norris

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/the_hour_past_m 2009-10-05T08:01:57Z 2009-10-04T08:38:32Z Sian Norris http://www.sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.com/

Wisrutta Atthakor reports back from Edinburgh's second Ladyfest, a festival centring women's art and music, replete with workshops, comedy and stand-up. Includes an interview with Zorras

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/edinburgh_ladyf 2009-10-04T15:09:15Z 2009-10-03T10:54:00Z Wisrutta Atthakor http://pumpkinpistudio.blogspot.com/

Red Chidgey reviews a step-by-step guide to going freelance

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/10/how_to_survive 2009-10-01T08:21:28Z 2009-10-01T21:52:57Z Red Chidgey http://www.redchidgey.net/

In this case study, Carrie Supple explains how she and Louise Morris organised a protest to support Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein - and how you can use the same techniques to organise a demo for your campaign too

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/09/how_we_organise 2009-09-17T11:15:40Z 2009-09-15T13:57:14Z Carrie Supple http://iamlubna.com.venus.dnstemplate.com/voices.html

Sian Norris reviews an anthology which explores our feelings about dirt (and cleaning it up)

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/09/dirt_is_an_anth 2009-09-10T12:24:12Z 2009-09-09T21:57:14Z Sian Norris http://www.sianandcrookedrib.blogspot.com/

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

Stieg Larsson's thrillers have been described as feminist, but Melanie Newman argues they are just the latest in a line of novels which aim to titillate readers with graphic depictions of men raping and murdering women

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/09/larrson_review 2009-09-06T22:23:04Z 2009-09-04T21:14:52Z Melanie Newman

England's first college accepting female undergraduates was established in 1869. In 1948, Cambridge became the last university in the country to grant degrees to its female students. Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein reviews a book which charts the years in between

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/09/bluestockings 2009-09-04T15:16:58Z 2009-09-04T14:49:00Z Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein http://alexandragoldstein.co.uk/

Yasmin Eshref attended a creative writing course for girls and young women at The Women's Library

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/08/this_august_i_w 2009-08-15T10:28:50Z 2009-08-14T17:41:03Z Yasmin Eshref http://domiknittrix.wordpress.com/

Francine Hoenderkamp explains her campaign to ban Page 3

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/08/dear_clare_i_ha 2009-08-14T17:38:44Z 2009-08-13T12:18:22Z Francine Hoenderkamp

Feminist artists have often used the tactic of exaggerating the objectification of women to the point of parody. But Alex Brew questions how subversive this strategy is in practice

http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2009/08/how_do_i_look_i 2009-08-12T09:21:53Z 2009-08-11T07:41:19Z Alex Brew