Contributors

Abby O'Reilly

No porn is good porn?

Abby Lee - girl with (not just) a one-track mind

Yummy-mummy or pramface?

Flicking the Bean

Review: Psychologies

Declaration of Independence

Review: First Magazine

Abi M

From 'oy sexy' to 'frigid bitch' in 30 seconds

Skinny porn

Aideen Johnston

Review: Kill Bill

Ailsa

Review: Mooncup

Review: Good Housekeeping

Review: Response to Lesbians: ignored by mainstream female culture?

Review: Lesbians: ignored by mainstream female culture?

Alex

Walking with Cavemen

Alex Brew

Walking on eggshells

Alex Gibson

Why men should care about gender stereotypes

Alexandra M Kokoli

Review: What not to watch

Review: Strangeland

Review: Not all girls (want to) go to Fendi paradise

Alix Brodie

Review: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones

Amity Reed

Not a happy birthday

Maid of the manor

Amy Bell

Strictly Feminist: Interview with Amy Prior

The Lowdown on Ladyfest

Interview with Mary-Ann Stephenson

Andrew Bowden

Andy Roberts

Reproductive freedom in the UK.

Angela Brant

A worthwhile women's day

Angela Everitt

The Name of the Game

Anji Capes

Stripping the illusion...

Anna Fioravanti

Review: Kylie Minogue

Review: Lady Roxana

Review: The Hours

Anna Sandfield

Body Language Speaks Volumes

Review: Women Who Wrock

Review: Ani DiFranco - Royal Festival Hall, June 2003

Review: Holy Trinity - female characters in The Matrix: Reloaded

Anne Onne

Men! Feminism needs you! (Not your privilege...)

Antonia Strachey

Miss LSE or Miss-ogyny?

Aoife McBride

Grrl Activistas - an introduction

Ben Drake

Review: Sexism and the System

Ben Thurgood

Sexual Healing

Beth Anderson

Handbags and Gladrags

There is no Groom

Review: Watching the Detectives

Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Bods

Real Men Drink Pints

Carrie Dunn

TV for men

The media has failed women's football

Carter-Ann Mahdavi

It's rude to point: blame culture's easy way out

Catherine Gillespie

Review: Diva

Catherine Redfern (Editor 2001-2007, Founder)

Review: Peaches - Impeach My Bush

Review: Girl With a One Track Mind - Abby Lee

Review: Subtext Magazine

Review: Verge Magazine

Review: Sex and The Married Girl

Ordinary Ads, Everyday Images

Important note for all readers

Review: Taking Charge of Your Fertility

Review: Refusing to Be a Man

'Feminists are Sexist'

The F-Word: Contemporary UK Feminism

Review: Moon Mammas: fleece menstrual pads

Is this website discriminating? Responses

Review: Ka-ching, bling bling, ching ching - women sing about money

Review: You're a 44-year old man: the Michael Jackson Interview

I Love The 70s

A Third Wave?

Feminist Discussion and Action Group

Review: Return of the zines

Review: Ms Dynamite - It Takes More

Review: Inappropriate Behaviour: Prada Sucks! and other Demented Descants

Review: Not for Girls? The Yorkie and Echo Adverts

Review: Cooks and Campaigners

Review: Zine Reviews - the sequel

Fighting Back: self defence for women and girls

The Spice Girls

The Freedom Trashcan 2002

Happy Birthday to Us!

The Biological Clock

Review: Zine Reviews

Review: Jar Openers

Interview with Natasha Walter

Review: First episode of Star Trek: Enterprise

Pornography

Rebranding Feminism

Is this website discriminating?

Review: Chica

Confessions of a Failed Fashionista

Review: Bitch

Enough with the pendulum!

'Just call me Bob.'

Letters

Review: Bitch

Review: Trouble and Strife

Review: Eve's Back

Review: The First Fifty: Munro-Bagging Without a Beard

Margaret Thatcher

Why Irma Kurtz is wrong about rape

Review: Lil-lets Heatsoother for Period Pain

Review: Nova

Review: AMPminizine

Election 2001

Fawcett briefing on women and voting

Review: The British Woman Today: a qualitative survey of the images in women's magazines

Review: In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution

Review: Misogynies

The Signs of Ageing

Pick 'n' Mix Feminism

Equality Quiz

Review: The Gilrlfrenzy Millenial

Review: The Curse

Review: The Vagina Monologues

Review: Curvaceous

The Personal is (or) isn't political (or is it?)

'The Eminem defence'?

Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery

Review: Hardcore

Review: Overloaded : Popular culture and the future of feminism

Review: Where The Girls Are

The Beauty Myth

Review: BUST

Review: Ms.

The Morning After

How To Create a Woman's Glossy Magazine in Five Minutes

Review: As If

Review: Daria

Review: Boy Meets Girl

I'm not a feminist, but...

Catherine Redfern (Editor 2001-2007, Founder)

Review: Sex and the City the movie: Having your (wedding) cake and eating it

Cathryn Dagger

The New Breastfeeding Taboo

Cazz Blase

Review: Tales of low-paid work

Review: Live Alone and Like It

Review: An interrupted life

The woman behind Persephone Books

Crinolines and corsets... again

Zines: for when mainstream media lets us down

Review: Trickster's Choice / Trickster's Queen - Tamora Pierce

Review: The Gossip - Manchester July 2006

Review: Roger Fishbite

But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 4

But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 3

But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 2

But What of Us? UK Riot Grrrl - Part 1

Review: Troy

Review: Searching For Sense And Reason

Review: Interview with Lucy O'Brien

Chloe Emmott

Can burlesque be feminist?

Claire Daly

Breaking out of the mould

Claire McGowan

Fear Factor

The Food of Love?

Clare Burgess

Review: Like Mother, Like Daughter?

Review: Smelling of Roses?

Review: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild And Got A Life

Clare Laxton

Domestic violence and disabled women

Abortion and disability - whose voices are heard?

Clare Riley

Bad Mothers

Collette

Review: Paper Dolls: Searching for Women within Kerrang Magazine

Dawn Kofie

Review: How to Look Good Naked

Review: Loose Women

Review: Observer Woman

Debi Withers

Review: Fragments from the Dark

Deborah McAlister

The future of activism

Diane Shipley

Review: Men!

Dina Jose

Fairy Tales are Grimm

Dwysan Edwards

Rape - is it our fault?

Review: The Pursuit of Happyness

E Baeza

Lament for Sisterhood

Ealasaid Gilfillan

Men and Children First

Review: Feminism: A Very Short Introduction

The Appliance of Science

Review: Make Me a Perfect Wife

Sports Illustrated

Review: Taming of the Shrew

Eeva Berglund

Built for women

Ekis

How to get an activist movement to keep women in prostitution

Eleanor Turner

A Bride by Any Other Name

Ellery

Pretending That Men Aren't Grown-Ups

Review: King Arthur

Review: Pictures Are Not Everything: A Response to 'My Foetus'

Emma Chaplin

A hairy dilemma

Emma Cosh

Why Not Feminism?

Emma Hadfield

I did it my way

The Mechanics of Femininity

Gifts for Her

Emma Wood

How not to write your policy on transgender rights

Review: Is Tarantino really feminist?

Fay Bound Alberti

Sex and the Music Video

Finn Mackay

Surf's Up! In praise of the second wave

From Greenham to Menwith: The women's peace campaign at Menwith Hill

Geethika Jayatilaka

Rebranding Feminism? Geethika Jayatilaka's talk

Gemma Wearing

Buying gunk

George Mason

Review: The circle of expectations

Suffering in Silence

Glencora Bailey

Review: 'Backlash: The Hidden War on Women in the UK' - 1st Nov 2006, London

Review: Girls Like Us vs. Diva

Gloria Dawson

High heels with a pointe

Hannah Whittaker

Glamour models made me sick

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

Skirting the issue

Helen Clarke

Sexual Harassment is Not Trivial

Helen G

Trans 101

A period of transition

Helen Watling

Review: Le Tigre - London Astoria, May 2002

Holly Combe

Review: He's Just Not That Into You

Who's The Man?

Review: Scarlet Magazine

Review: Frank - Amy Winehouse

Review: The Boy

25 Burning Questions

Smug Intentions: Richard and Judy on Chivalry

Pretty Vacant

Bend Over Girls - he's in Freak Mode

Ilona Jasiewicz

Re-classifying rape

Indigo Black

Review: The Be Good Tanyas - Bristol Bierkeller, March 2003

Irina Lester

Abortion: still a feminist issue

Review: One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

Itala Attieh

Review: Sexuality and sainthood

Jamie Lee Merrick

Get Mad

Jane Collins

Alien She?

Jane Purcell

Feeling a bit uncomfortable?

Janet Evans

Review: Pinch these off your mum's bookshelf!

Review: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

JC Sutcliffe

Review: The Feminine Mistake

The farmer wants a wife, the wife wants a wife

Jen Clarke

Reply to Nigel Planer

Jen Clayton

'Who... me? I'm just a housewife'

Jennifer Drew

Knife crime and masculinity

Are women and girls vulnerable?

The epidemic of male violence against women

How the word 'slut' oppresses women

Does 'gender neutral' language serve to cover up male violence?

Sexual healing?

Review: If... Women Ruled the World (review 2)

Dysfunctional, moi? The Myth of Female Sexual Dysfunction and its Medicalisation

Response to 'Alien She?'

Jennifer Thomson

Review: Girl Power?

Jess McCabe (Editor 2007-)

Review: He's a stud, she's a slut?

Ask a feminist - The F Word problem page

The F Word Podcast - episode three!

Ask a feminist - The F Word problem page

Review: It's So You

Review: Revolution Girl Style Now!

The F Word Podcast - episode two!

Review: Get your toe bypass here

The F Word podcast: episode one!

A feminist guide to ballet

Jacky Fleming on drawing for feminism

From peace camps to protests - Finn Mackay

Not a men's club anymore: Antarctica

Review: Uplift Magazine

Review: The Politics of the Tampon Case

Review: North Country

Review: The Descent

Review: Le Tigre - London Astoria, April 2004

Jessica Bateman

A Real Alternative?

Jessica Metheringham

The place of the 'Female Vote' in politics

Jo Knowles

Review: Desperate Housewives

Not my Cup of T: slogans on women's T-shirts

Crime and Punishment: Maxine Carr and other 'evil women'

Cutting Women Down to Size

Jo Legg

Crime and patriarchy

Joanna Tocher

Review: Lust, Caution

Review: Who's to Say Who Understands Us?

Joanna Whitehead

How many lesbians does it take to sell a t-shirt?

JoJo Kirtley

All About Eve

Jonathan Dean

Reasons to be Cheerful

Josefin Skullbacka

Review: WAG do you want to be when you grow up?

K* Harknett

Review: Nuts and Zoo Weekly

Kadie Armstrong

Stand Up For Equality

Kate Allen

Taboo For Who?

Page 3 - Ban It!

Diet Grrrl - Feminism and Women's Magazines

Kate Smurthwaite

Review: Big Sister

Kate Townshend

War of Words

Katherine

Female commentator kicks off barrage of sexism

Katherine Lubar

Review: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar

Katie Muller

F.A.T.

Filling the hole

Kerry-Lynne Doyle

Don't cha wish pop was more empowering?

Kery Saegert

Review: Natural deodorants

Kit Roskelly

Kink 101

A slice-by-slice attack on women's right to choose

Kristin Aune

Whatever happened to sisterhood?

Big Brother, Virgins, and Female Singleness

Kristine Bergström

Mama's mop and Bachelor's soup

Lara McKinnon

It Ain't Over Till It's Over

Laura Baldwin

Why It's time for the 'battle of the sexes' to end

Laura Carr

Why men suck (and the women who have to)

Laura Kidd

Review: Ladies Rock! London

Laura Wadsworth

Feminine Feminism

Laura Wirtz

Review: Osama (review 2)

Laura Woodhouse

Review: Women in Chile: Moving towards equality (but only if you look the part)

Review: Sin City

Laurie Penny

The Oxbridge sex workers

Of corset matters

Against censorship

Where the size-zero debate goes awry

Leanne Bibby

Review: Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

Leonie Brooke

Keeping It Real

Lindsay

Review: Hairy Women

Bloody Disgrace

Review: Citibank Photography Prize 2003

Lindsay and Francesca Levy

Review: Lilya 4-Ever

Support Our Boys

Lindsey M Sheehan

Review: Haunted?

Lizzie Garcha

Men in feminism

Lorraine Douglas

Review: Velvet Magazine

Review: Mslexia

The UK Press - Time for a change

Lorraine Smith

The 'Right' Time for Motherhood?

Review: The Apprentice

Review: 365 Days of Sensational Sex

Hollywood Women

Review: Not a Victim - Stephanie Pakrul

Review: Reversals

The Feminist Minefield?

Review: Be Unlimited

Review: Christina Aguilera - Can't Hold Us Down

Driven to Distraction

Review: More Sex Tips for Girls

Ball breaking? Coming out of the feminism closet.

Review: This is Rockbitch

Review: Grease

Review: 24

Body Image

Lorraine Smith and Ms Razorblade

Review: $pread Magazine

Louise Livesey

Review: Rape: an unfinished revolution

Why replication isn't subversion

How Everyday It Is

Louise Whittle

Left behind?

Lucy Gollogly

Review: One Beat - Sleater Kinney

Review: Response to 'Under Your Skin'

Review: Under Your Skin

Lucy Wilkins

Women Are Not In Fashion

Lyn Cicada

Response to 'Rebranding Feminism'

Response to 'The Signs of Ageing'

Maria Roberts

Coitophobia: who do you trust?

Maria Seijo-Richart

Review: Munich

Marianne Cupit

Your Face Is Your Fortune

Marion Beach

Show Girls: The State of

Mary Ellen Flynn

Review: Nell

Matthew Provost

Stopping violence against women at its primary root

Maxine Frances

Real Female Heroines

Meera Palia

Review: If... Women Ruled the World (review 1)

Megan

Contraception and Control - Teenage Rights

Melanie Dunn

More than just 'Jam and Jerusalem': why we should join the Women's Institute

Melanie Newman

Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Michelle Jenkin

Review: Garbage - Manchester Apollo, April 2002

Review: Model Behaviour

Michelle Wright

The problem with pink

Girls Aloud, beauty secrets and lies

Where's the real war on terror?

Under the Knife

Review: We Need to Talk About Kevin

Missmogga

What's Up Baby?

Ms Razorblade

Review: The Incredibles

Review: The Ethics of Sex Toys - Part 2

Review: The Ethics of Sex Toys - Part 1

Growing up or giving in?

Name Supplied

Diet Grrrl: An Example

Natalie Smith

Review: FHM Music Channel

Natasha Forrest

Just a Stripper

Review: The Stepford Wives

Where is the F word not an F word?

Review: Wife Swap

Where are the Radicals?

Whose Slut?

Review: Pop Idol

Review: Ally McBeal

Niamh Devlin

Response to 'The Biological Clock'

Nichi Hodgson

Hair today, mad tomorrow

Nicky Raynor

Sick of Celebrity

Review: Tales of a Librarian - Tori Amos

Nino

Self harm

Hip hop ladies

Paul Brown

Review: The Great Big Glorious (Sexist) Book for Girls

Rachael Hawkins

The Experiences of Young Women in Science

Rachel Bell

'I'm no sad victim. I've seen and survived the darkest side of life'

Challenging The 'Sex Sells' Cliche

Women Unite, Reclaim the night!

Review: Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

Subvert the Dominant Pimpiarchy

Rachel E

Every Girl Wants a Stalker

Rachel Harris-Gardiner

Review: We Are The Pipettes - The Pipettes

Rebecca Heller

Edinburgh gets ready to Reclaim the Night

Red Chidgey

Labours left unfinished: third wave feminism

Get Your Frock On: An insight into organising a womens' community event

Rhona-Mairead Sweeting

Do It Yourself? How about Do It Ourselves

Rosa

Attention Seeker

Rosalyn Ball

Dreaming of a Pink Christmas

Rosamund Urwin

Review: 300 Spartans and one strong broad

Rose Hypnol

Review: Rollergirls are go!

Rosjke Hasseldine

Why are women so critical of each other?

Lifting the veil on mothers and daughters

Ruth Moss

When did it go so tits up?

Ruthie Samuel

UK feminists must address worldwide issues

Samantha Lyster

A Perfect Delusion

Samara Ginsberg

'Honey! Your vagina needs a mint'

First impressions

Sandrine Levêque

Come on Boris, what you got?

Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams

Mind Your Language

World Cup WAGs

Sarah New

Feminism and Popular Culture

Sarah Parry

Uncovering The Internet Art Revolution

Review: The Spice Girls' Legacy

Shaira Kadir

Stepford Wives in Training?

Shelley Rees

Review: X-Men: The Last Stand

Review: Make Me Perfect

Sheryl Plant

Oh, Mr Darcy!

Review: 'Men Are Back' - but where did they go?

Deconstructing Masculinity

Review: Grazia Magazine

Siún Carden

Where the 1967 Abortion Act doesn't apply

Sophie Mayer

Carmen out swinging: Sally Potter takes on opera's femme fatale

Sophie Platt

What a load of wank

Sue Gilbert

Review: Tracey, Tomma and the Turner conspiracy

Susan Hunter

New Rights, Old Wrongs

Tamlyn Monson

Review: The Sexual Life of Catherine M

Review: Women and War

Review: Osama (review 1)

Review: Rankin and Bailey Down Under

Theadora Jean

Could Britney Spears be the feminist icon of our generation?

Various Authors

Ask a feminist - The F-Word problem page

Review: Female Chauvinist Pigs

Take Back The Streets

Resolution = Revolution!

Responses to Bloody Disgrace

Review: Feminist Must-Reads

More responses to 'Whose Slut?'

More responses to 'The Biological Clock'

Response to 'Whose Slut?'

Veronica Wood-Querales

What does the politics of hair say about modern Britain?

Victoria Dutchman-Smith

Is alcohol really a feminist issue?

Are you married? If not, why not?

Yvonne Howard

Cartoon special...

Contributors to the News section (2001-2003)

Sara Vali

Jacquelyn Arnold

Amy Bell

George

Marna Gilligan

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