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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/

Eleanor M. reviews a BBC3 documentary about a beauty pageant for pre-teen girls

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/08/baby_beauty_que 2009-08-04T20:56:05Z 2009-08-04T20:25:08Z Eleanor M.

Ellie Levenson's guide to feminism for the "noughtie girl" apologises too much and asks for too little change, says Laurie Penny

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/08/beyond_noughtie 2009-08-02T16:05:20Z 2009-08-02T15:29:28Z Laurie Penny http://pennyred.blogspot.com/

Although Ellie Levenson's feminist primer makes some sensible points, this is undermined by a raft of offensive statements, a defence of rape jokes and a desire to speak only to the young, white, able-bodied, straight, educated and middle-class, argues Amity Reed

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/08/the_noughtie_gi 2009-08-02T16:12:30Z 2009-08-02T15:01:41Z Amity Reed http://noblesavage.me.uk/

Gemma Sharpe reviews a retrospective of feminist video art

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/07/body_of_work 2009-07-23T16:59:03Z 2009-07-20T18:13:39Z Gemma Sharpe

Karen Gregory reviews the 20th anniversary edition of The Politics of Breastfeeding by Gabrielle Palmer

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/07/the_politics_of_1 2009-08-02T16:12:57Z 2009-07-14T09:35:16Z Karen Gregory http://mummywriter.blogspot.com/

Steve Biddulph's bestseller on bringing up boys takes us on a trip back to 19th century, says Clare Gould

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/05/raising_boys_he 2009-05-26T09:57:07Z 2009-05-25T21:01:10Z Clare Gould

JM Barrie's creation Peter Pan has an enduring popularity. Allison McCarthy digs into the sexist and racist history of the play and novel, and how this has been addressed in modern adaptations

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/04/feminism_and_pe 2009-04-19T21:34:34Z 2009-04-19T20:59:33Z Allison McCarthy

Sabre reviews Irshad Manji's controversial book which challenges some of the ways Islam is practiced

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/03/as_soon_as_i_sa 2009-03-21T11:41:51Z 2009-03-18T21:49:42Z Sabre

Laura Doherty reviews a show that promised to fight impossible beauty standards, but fell into all the same traps as a beauty paegent

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/03/miss_naked_beau 2009-07-08T13:06:10Z 2009-03-13T23:25:53Z Laura Doherty

Why are white, young, male 'rebels' celebrated and revered in pop culture, while women who push against society's sexist and racist norms are marginalised and dismissed? Michelle Wright reviews a book which brings to light stories of the female rebel

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/03/hellions_pop_cu 2009-03-13T23:06:12Z 2009-03-13T22:41:21Z Michelle Wright http://lonergrrrl.blogspot.com

debi withers reviews Thea Hillman's memoir outlining her own experience as an intersex person, as well as offering a critique of 'normal' and a vision for a queer intersex feminism

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/02/queer_intersex 2009-02-18T23:26:13Z 2009-02-18T22:45:13Z debi withers http://www.debi-rah.net/

Ali Smith's latest short story collection teases the reader and plays with the conventions of literature, says Kirsty McHugh

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/02/the_first_perso 2009-02-11T17:04:43Z 2009-02-11T11:15:40Z Kirsty McHugh http://feministbookworm.wordpress.com/

Channel 4's series Embarrassing Teenage Bodies is meant to reassure young people. But an episode which saw doctors perform labiaplasty on a 19-year-old achieved exactly the opposite effect, argues Bellavita

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/02/channel_4_show 2009-02-11T10:49:13Z 2009-02-10T23:32:41Z Bellavita

Michelle Wright reviews a book which sketches the history of coalition building between second-wave feminists and other social justice activists

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/02/feminist_coalit 2009-02-02T21:31:50Z 2009-02-02T21:06:05Z Michelle Wright http://lonergrrrl.blogspot.com