Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2012-02-09T11:23:48Z

Hit US sitcom New Girl arrived on British TV screens in January. The 'girl' is freshly heartbroken Jess (Zooey Deschanel), who finds herself sharing a house with three men. Emily Kenway and Kaite Welsh watched the first episode, to see how the show fared from a feminist perspective

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2012/02/manic_pixie_dre 2012-02-09T11:23:48Z 2012-02-09T11:22:15Z Various Authors

Before you settle down to digest your Christmas Dinner with the Doctor Who Special, you might like to consider how the show treats its female characters. Hope Dinsdale investigates

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2011/12/all_the_tardis_ 2012-01-05T16:34:30Z 2011-12-22T17:56:17Z Hope Dinsdale

Elaine O'Neill explain why HBO's new swords and sorcery epic isn't just a man's game

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2011/07/game_of_thrones 2011-07-25T15:49:28Z 2011-07-22T18:37:24Z Elaine O'Neill http://rainylain.wordpress.com/

Although it may be a gripping courtroom drama, Abby O'Reilly argues that Silk fails to reflect the true status of women in the legal profession

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2011/03/silk_review 2011-05-07T11:55:03Z 2011-03-27T19:46:31Z Abby O'Reilly

Chloë Emmott reviews a TV documentary which casts light on the women who flew fighter planes in World War II

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2010/10/spitfire_women 2010-10-25T21:01:19Z 2010-10-25T20:51:00Z Chloe Emmott http://www.myspace.com/inannaamor

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

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.

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

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

Alice Lawlor reviews some of 2008's Sex and the City copycats

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2009/01/sex_and_the_sub 2009-01-19T14:23:48Z 2009-01-18T12:57:47Z Alice Lawlor

Black-tie dances during which six-year-old girls promise their fathers to abstain from sex until marriage? A documentary about 'purity' balls in the United States horrifies Dawn Kofie

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/11/the_virgin_daug 2008-11-03T00:27:15Z 2008-11-02T23:53:30Z Dawn Kofie

Cutting away at your labia sounds extreme, but more and more women are going under the surgeon's knife. Amy Clare reports on a Channel 4 documentary which attempted to shine a light on why this is happening

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/09/the_perfect_vag 2008-09-10T15:52:12Z 2008-09-10T21:18:04Z Amy Clare

A recent episode of Trinny and Susannah's latest makeover show suggested that women choose to work in supermarkets to hide in the frumpy uniforms. Alexandra M Kokoli reports

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2008/01/what_not_to_wat 2008-01-02T13:14:17Z 2008-01-01T19:58:50Z Alexandra M Kokoli

How to Look Good Naked is a make-over show with a noble purpose - to make women feel good about themselves, argues Dawn Kofie

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/12/how_to_look_goo 2007-12-08T14:42:01Z 2007-12-06T21:28:13Z Dawn Kofie

Loose Women portrays itself as feisty television fun, argues Dawn Kofie, but it patronises the female viewing public

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/06/loose_women 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2007-06-02T19:57:14Z Dawn Kofie