Contributors

A list of the wonderful people who write for The F-Word.

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?
Ala Abbas
Losing my hijab
Alex
Walking with Cavemen
Alex Brew
How do I look in this, on this, doing this, with this...?
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
Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein
Review: Bluestockings
Alice Lawlor
Review: Sex and the Substitutes
Alix Brodie
Review: Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones
Allison McCarthy
Review: Feminism and Peter Pan
Amica Lane
The professional masquerade
Amity Reed
Review: The Noughtie Girl's Guide to Feminism
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
Amy Clare
Review: The Perfect Vagina
Ananya
So, you really think we're stupid, do you?
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 Corbett
Confessions of a brand new feminist
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
Anna-Kate
Feminist progress: undermined by the media?
Anne Onne
Men! Feminism needs you! (Not your privilege...)
Annika Spalding
Whose feminism is it?
Antonia Strachey
Miss LSE or Miss-ogyny?
Aoife McBride
Grrl Activistas - an introduction
Bellavita
Review: Embarrassing Teenage Bodies advocates cosmetic labiaplasty
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
Caitlin Brown
Feminism and the vampire novel
Carolyn Roberts
Beyond boob jobs – how might the credit crunch affect women?
Carrie Dunn
TV for men
The media has failed women's football
Carrie Supple
How to organise a demonstration
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
Writing women back into punk
Women in punk: 'Too Good To Be Forgotten'
Review: Uglies
Review: 'Freedom always has a price'
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
Charlotte Cooper
Review: The Wisdom of Whores
Feminism in London 2009
Chloe Emmott
Can burlesque be feminist?
Christina McDermott
Review: Picking Bones from Ash
Cila Warncke
Britney Spears, daddy's little girl?
Claire Daly
Breaking out of the mould
Claire McGowan
Fear Factor
The Food of Love?
Clare Burgess
Girls in the lead
Review: Like Mother, Like Daughter?
Review: Smelling of Roses?
Review: How Opal Mehta Got Kissed Got Wild And Got A Life
Clare Gould
Piggy banks and budget cuts
Review: Raising boys? Help yourself to some gender stereotypes
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: The Virgin Daughters
Review: How to Look Good Naked
Review: Loose Women
Review: Observer Woman
Debi Crow
Across the porn divide
debi withers
Adventures in self-publishing
Review: Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
Review: Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness / Raciality
Review: Her Naked Skin
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
Eirwen-Jane Pierrot
For the good of the species?
Ekis
How to get an activist movement to keep women in prostitution
Eleanor M.
Review: Baby Beauty Queens
Eleanor Turner
A Bride by Any Other Name
Ella Alexander
From the front lines
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
Frances Downey
Women in physics
Francine Hoenderkamp
Turn your back on Page 3
Geethika Jayatilaka
Rebranding Feminism? Geethika Jayatilaka's talk
Gemma Sharpe
Review: Body of Work
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
Heather McIntosh
Bring the herstory of riot grrrl back into the present
Helen Clarke
Sexual Harassment is Not Trivial
Helen Dring
Feminism and fat
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
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 Gray
Time to end parental leave discrimination
Jennifer Thomson
Review: Girl Power?
Jess McCabe (Editor 2007-)
Review: Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century
Review: The Equality Illusion
Bright Star and women in film
Review: The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet
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 Burton
On kickboxing, women's aggression and self-defence
Jessica Gjergji
Review: Lighting a fire
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
Kaite Welsh
Review: Hello Kitty Must Die
Review: The Fossil Hunter
Review: Mysteries of the Iconographies
Karen Gregory
Review: The Politics of Breastfeeding
Kate Allen
Taboo For Who?
Page 3 - Ban It!
Diet Grrrl - Feminism and Women's Magazines
Kate Joester
Breastfeeding: radical, feminist and good for you
Kate Smurthwaite
Review: Big Sister
Kate Townshend
Gender in the playground
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
Kelly Draper
What Not To Wear say to your co-worker
Kerry-Lynne Doyle
Don't cha wish pop was more empowering?
Kery Saegert
Review: Natural deodorants
Kirsty McHugh
Review: The First Person and Other Stories
Kit Roskelly
HPV vaccination - the debate isn't over yet
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 Bergstrom
Mama's mop and Bachelor's soup
L
Breaking the circle
Lara McKinnon
It Ain't Over Till It's Over
Lara Williams
Some body to love
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 Doherty
Review: Miss Naked Beauty UK: more degrading than Miss World?
Laura Kidd
Review: Ladies Rock! London
Laura Thomas
A streamlined new me
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
Moving towards solidarity
Review: Beyond Noughtie Girls
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
LonerGrrrl
Review: Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining 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
Million Women Rise - Reflections
Review: Rape: an unfinished revolution
Review: A modern maiden?
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
Lydia Harris
Review: The Raincoats play the National Portrait Gallery
Lyn Cicada
Response to 'Rebranding Feminism'
Response to 'The Signs of Ageing'
Maggie Lee
'The useless organ'
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 Maddison
Grassroots feminism 2.0?
Melanie Newman
Review: Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism
Review: Feminist or misogynist?
Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Mhairi Guild
In our satin tights, fighting for our rights! But are women really natural campaigners?
Michelle Jenkin
Review: Garbage - Manchester Apollo, April 2002
Review: Model Behaviour
Michelle Wright
Review: Hellions: Pop Culture's Rebel Women
Review: On the herstory of feminist coalitions
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
Milly Shaw
Review: The York Lesbian Arts Festival 2008
Review: Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities
Missmogga
What's Up Baby?
Molly Lavender
Calendar girls
Now That's What I Call Misogyny!
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?
Myriam Francois-Cerrah
Coherent feminism doesn't stop at Afghani women
Name Supplied
Diet Grrrl: An Example
Natalie Davis
A question of (sexism in) sport
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
Penni F
Why my son wears pink
Posie Rider
Pity in Pink
Rachael Halemor
Confidential?
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
Rachel Thwaites
Gender and sentencing
Rebecca Heller
Edinburgh gets ready to Reclaim the Night
Red Chidgey
Review: How to survive and thrive as a creative professional for hire
Review: Cunning Stunts: women's theatre in the 1970s and '80s
Review: Loving outside the line of monogamy: Tristan Taormino's new guide to open relationships
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
Sisters! Some of us are mothers, too!
When did it go so tits up?
Ruthie Samuel
UK feminists must address worldwide issues
S
Painful vagina? Your poor husband!
Sabre
Review: 'The Trouble with Islam Today'
Samantha Jay
'Who... me? I'm just a housewife'
Samantha Lyster
A Perfect Delusion
Samara Ginsberg
'Hasn't anybody ever told you a handful is enough?'
'Honey! Your vagina needs a mint'
First impressions
Sandrine Levêque
Challenging sex object culture: definitely needed, definitely lively and definitely a key issue for 2009!
Come on Boris, what you got?
Sarah C L
Review: Janes In Love
Sarah Levack
Stink bombing the beauty pagaent
Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams
In the name of the father...
Mind Your Language
World Cup WAGs
Sarah New
Feminism and Popular Culture
Sarah Parry
Uncovering The Internet Art Revolution
Review: The Spice Girls' Legacy
Selina Jervis
Alright darlin'
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
Sian Norris
Review: Daphne Du Maurier's feminist fairy tales
Review: The Hour Past Midnight
Review: Dirt: Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House
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: Women's art in Paris: elles@centrepompidou
Review: Tracey, Tomma and the Turner conspiracy
Sue Schofield
IT's a man's world?
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
Tara Atluri
Olive would have told me to shut up and do something
Terese Jonsson
Piercing the whitening silence
Theadora Jean
Could Britney Spears be the feminist icon of our generation?
Various Authors
In conversation with Senzeni Marasela
Review: Women
On sisterhood
We're all in this together
It's only a bloody tampon
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 Al-Sharqi
Choice and disability
Victoria Dutchman-Smith
Why feminists shouldn't have to keep mum
Incitement to rape
Is alcohol really a feminist issue?
Are you married? If not, why not?
Wisrutta Atthakor
A gude cause maks a strong arm
Review: Edinburgh Ladyfest 2009
The woman engineer: are we really that incompetent?
A woman... and a geek?
Yasmin Eshref
Review: Creative writing at The Women's Library
Yvonne Howard
Cartoon special...
Contributors to the News section (2001-2003)
Sara Vali
Jacquelyn Arnold
Amy Bell
George
Marna Gilligan

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