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<title type="text">The F-Word: Magazines</title>
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<title type="text">Women in Chile: Moving towards equality (but only if you look the part)</title>
<summary type="text">Chile&apos;s Mujer magazine is a bizarre juxtaposition of all that&apos;s best in women&apos;s journalism and all that&apos;s worst in advertising, finds Laura Woodhouse</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/05/women_in_chile</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2007-05-03T15:43:33Z</published>
<author>
<name>Laura Woodhouse</name>
<uri>http://notafeministbut.blogspot.com/</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text"><![CDATA[Who&apos;s to Say Who Understands Us?]]></title>
<summary type="text">From George Clooney to handbag merchant Stuart Vevers, the Observer Woman&apos;s list of the 50 men who &quot;really understand&quot; women gets it badly wrong, argues Joanna Tocher</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2007-03-01T18:02:18Z</published>
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<name>Joanna Tocher</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Observer Woman</title>
<summary type="text">It&apos;s now one year old and has won awards, but did it deliver what it promised to women? Dawn Kofie comments on the first year of the Observer Woman magazine.</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2007-01-04T22:15:26Z</published>
<author>
<name>Dawn Kofie</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Psychologies</title>
<summary type="text">A magazine for women that isn&apos;t obsessed with making you feel bad about your body image? Shocking, but possibly true, as Abby O&apos;Reilly explains.</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-11-17T16:27:48Z</published>
<author>
<name>Abby O&apos;Reilly</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">Girls Like Us vs. Diva</title>
<summary type="text">Glencora Bailey compares a new lesbian magazine from Amsterdam to the UK&apos;s own version. She asks: what should a lesbian magazine look like? Should a lesbian magazine be feminist? How can lesbian magazines avoid being prescriptive about what it means to be queer or female?</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/10/girls_like_us</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-10-21T10:07:05Z</published>
<author>
<name>Glencora Bailey</name>

</author>
</entry>

<entry>
<title type="text">Paper Dolls: Searching for Women within Kerrang Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">Collette explains how Kerrang magazine lets down female rock fans. Analysing a recent issue, she looks at how rarely female artists are seriously covered, and finds that even when women are included the magazine chooses to represent them purely as sexual objects.</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/09/kerrang</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-09-26T17:09:08Z</published>
<author>
<name>Collette</name>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title type="text">Uplift Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">Jess McCabe gets her hands on an exciting new, glossy, creative feminist magazine.</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/08/uplift_magazine</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-08-22T20:28:06Z</published>
<author>
<name>Jess McCabe</name>
<uri>http://www.jessmccabe.co.uk</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Subtext Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">Subtext is a new British feminist magazine coming out of the feminist blogging community. Catherine Redfern gives the low-down on its style and substance.</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/08/subtext_magazin</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-08-13T15:32:13Z</published>
<author>
<name>Catherine Redfern</name>
<uri>http://www.thefword.org.uk/</uri>
</author>
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<entry>
<title type="text">First Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">Abby O&apos;Reilly reviews First, a new weekly glossy magazine aimed at women and marketed by Emap as a &apos;groundbreaking&apos;, &apos;intelligent read&apos; that gives readers &apos;a broader perspective on the world.&apos; So, does it live up to the hype?</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-08-13T13:55:04Z</published>
<author>
<name>Abby O&apos;Reilly</name>

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</entry>

<entry>
<title type="text">Verge Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">A new glossy British feminist magazine? Could it possibly be true? Yes indeed! Catherine Redfern checks out the first issue.</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:42:00Z</updated>
<published>2006-07-02T17:23:31Z</published>
<author>
<name>Catherine Redfern</name>
<uri>http://www.thefword.org.uk/</uri>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Grazia Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">Sheryl Plant considers whether, like many women&apos;s magazines, Grazia contibutes to  women&apos;s problems even as it purports to solve them.</summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:41:59Z</updated>
<published>2005-06-17T14:17:49Z</published>
<author>
<name>Sheryl Plant</name>

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<entry>
<title type="text">$pread Magazine</title>
<summary type="text"><![CDATA[$pread Magazine is a new U.S. based publication which claims to be &quot;by and for sex workers of all genders, sexualities and backgrounds&quot; and aims to provide a forum for &quot;marginalised voices&quot; and a &quot;balanced and honest view of the sex industry&quot;. Lorraine Smith and Ms Razorblade, feminists with different views of sex work, review the first issue and come to very different conclusions.]]></summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2005/04/pread_magazine</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:41:59Z</updated>
<published>2005-04-16T15:28:54Z</published>
<author>
<name>Lorraine Smith and Ms Razorblade</name>

</author>
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<entry>
<title type="text">Scarlet Magazine</title>
<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Are you &quot;a sexually confident woman&quot;? Do you always &quot;get what you want&quot;? Scarlet Magazine is a new UK sex mag for women which is hoping to provide an assertive look at women's sexuality. But will it appeal to the Charlottes as much as the Samanthas? Holly Combe sits down with Issue 1 (November 2004).]]></summary>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:41:59Z</updated>
<published>2005-01-11T13:19:05Z</published>
<author>
<name>Holly Combe</name>

</author>
</entry>

<entry>
<title type="text">Velvet Magazine</title>
<summary type="text">A new, intellectual magazine for lesbians, reviewed by Lorraine Douglas.</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2004/11/velvet_magazine</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:41:59Z</updated>
<published>2004-11-05T20:58:52Z</published>
<author>
<name>Lorraine Douglas</name>

</author>
</entry>

<entry>
<title type="text">Nuts and Zoo Weekly</title>
<summary type="text">K* Harknett has the uneviable task of reviewing two new weekly lads mags.</summary>
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<id>http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2004/02/nuts_and_zoo_we</id>
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<updated>2007-12-08T14:41:59Z</updated>
<published>2004-02-16T23:48:09Z</published>
<author>
<name>K* Harknett</name>

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