Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2008-07-18T19:28:51Z

What happened to the women in The Diving-bell and the Butterfly in its transition from memoir to film, asks Melanie Newman?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/07/the_diving_bell 2008-07-18T19:28:51Z 2008-07-18T18:48:37Z Melanie Newman

Debi Withers reviews a book of writing by and interviews with female refugees and asylum seekers in Wales

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/06/fragments_from 2008-06-15T19:10:13Z 2008-06-15T11:06:10Z Debi Withers http://www.debi-rah.net/

Joanna Bourke's history of rape turns a steady and necessary gaze on an unsettling subject, concludes Louise Livesey

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/06/rape_an_unfinis 2008-06-05T09:31:42Z 2008-06-04T20:58:45Z Louise Livesey

Men get angry; women get PMS. Single men are bachelors; single women are spinsters. Jess McCabe wonders how Jessica Valenti limited herself to 49 examples of the double standard

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/05/hes_a_stud_shes 2008-05-07T21:48:17Z 2008-05-07T21:01:22Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

Louise Livesey reviews another guide to life as a modern woman which blithely ignores everyone who isn't white, middle class and straight

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/04/a_modern_maiden 2008-04-13T21:24:09Z 2008-04-13T19:58:17Z Louise Livesey

Monica Dickens worked as a cook, servant, nurse, in an aircraft factory and as a junior reporter. Cazz Blase reviews her unsentimental portraits of working life in the first half of the 20th century

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/04/tales_of_lowpai 2008-04-04T14:24:55Z 2008-04-04T07:57:59Z Cazz Blase

Does advice for the single women of 1936 have any bearing today? Cazz Blase reviews Marjorie Hillis' guide to independent living

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/03/live_alone_and 2008-03-13T14:55:19Z 2008-03-12T22:56:52Z Cazz Blase

Etty Hillesum was an 'impassioned, erotically volatile, restless' woman, who was murdered during the Holocaust. Cazz Blase reviews her diaries

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/02/an_interrupted 2008-02-08T16:43:32Z 2008-02-08T16:27:38Z Cazz Blase

Love clothes, but not in a 'Vogue' way? This collection of essays on expressing identity through fashion could be for you, says Jess McCabe

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/01/its_so_you 2008-01-02T16:46:51Z 2008-01-02T15:57:03Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

Jess McCabe reviews a book which documents the powerful girl-centric political and cultural movement that was riot grrrl

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/12/revolution_girl 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-12-07T23:25:36Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

Mikhaela Reid is angry. And funny. And she draws. Jess McCabe reviews her first book of cartoons

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/09/get_your_toebyp 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-09-04T19:59:32Z Jess McCabe http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk

Melissa Panarello's teenage sex diary shocked the adult world for all the wrong reasons, argues Irina Lester

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/08/one_hundred_str 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-08-29T19:32:48Z Irina Lester

Men! is more intelligent than other dating books, but still assumes that women are incomplete as single individuals. Diane Shipley reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/08/men 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-08-11T16:47:01Z Diane Shipley http://www.dianeshipley.com

While boys are instructed on the art of the catapult, girls are presented with ponies and pom-poms. Paul Brown is unimpressed

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/08/the_great_big_g 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-08-08T19:48:13Z Paul Brown

Judith Orr's pamphlet puts the backlash against feminism into a wider context, says Ben Drake

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/07/sexism_and_the 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2007-07-07T17:12:42Z Ben Drake