Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2010-03-08T00:34:35Z

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

In WAG Boutique, Josefin Skullbacka finds a group of women all-too-willing to define themselves as the wives and girlfriends of footballers

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2007/03/wag_do_you_want 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2007-03-29T18:20:02Z Josefin Skullbacka

Tampax present their scented tampons as 'natural', associating them with flowers. But Clare Burgess argues that advertising for menstrual products merely exploits and contributes to women's insecurities about periods and their bodies.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/09/smelling 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2006-09-11T20:16:23Z Clare Burgess

Sheryl Plant ponders two recent advertising campaigns from McDonalds and Peugeot 407 which portray a world dominated by women.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/03/men_are_back_bu 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2006-03-04T12:09:54Z Sheryl Plant

Helen Reeves is shocked at Make Me Perfect: a programme that encourages women with low self esteem to comply with mainstream sexist views on beauty rather than question them.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2006/02/make_me_perfect 2007-12-08T14:42:00Z 2006-02-11T12:37:29Z Shelley Rees

Jo Knowles argues that the suspiciously popular Desperate Housewives is no Sex and the City.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2005/06/desperate_house 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2005-06-19T19:41:32Z Jo Knowles