Contemporary UK feminism. http://www.thefword.org.uk/ Movable Type http://www.thefword.org.uk/images/logo2003.gif 2008-11-03T00:27:15Z

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

FHM has launched its own music channel and intrepid Natalie Smith finds a common theme in the videos. (Can you guess what it is yet)?

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2005/06/fhm_music_chann 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2005-06-17T14:46:44Z Natalie Smith

How come the female contestants for the job of Apprentice were so disappointing? Lorraine Smith pins her hopes on series two.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2005/06/the_apprentice 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2005-06-10T17:07:12Z Lorraine Smith http://www.lori-smith.co.uk/

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2004/11/make_me_a_perfe 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2004-11-05T11:46:16Z Ealasaid Gilfillan http://www.ealasaidgilfillan.net

Ellery responds to Julia Black's documentary 'My Foetus', which used images of aborted foetuses and was the first to screen footage of an abortion taking place. She ponders the use of imagery and pictures in the abortion debate.

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2004/06/pictures_are_no 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2004-06-01T16:08:57Z Ellery

The BBC 'disaster' series If... included a programme called If... Women Ruled the World which attempted to predict gender relations in 2020. Did it make a valid point, or was it just an extended version of the old Harry Enfield 'Women: know your limits!' sketch? Reviewed by Jennifer Drew

http://www.thefword.org.uk/reviews/2004/04/if_women_ruled_1 2007-12-08T14:41:59Z 2004-04-20T16:03:12Z Jennifer Drew