Laurie Penny considers why so many Oxbridge students are going into prostitution and stripping, and the impact the media coverage of their stories has on women in less privileged positions
Published: 11 May 2008 | More articles about: Culture and Media, Men, Politics and Current Affairs, Violence
The campaign to ban women from terminating pregnancies after 20 weeks is only the beginning, says Kit Roskelly
Published: 11 May 2008 | More articles about: Body and Health, Sex and Relationships, Work and Play
Beyond the mainstream of 'gangster pop', Nino argues hip hop can be - and is - feminist
Published: 7 May 2008 | More articles about: Culture and Media, Feminism
Girls and women need to give themselves a break from the endless preoccupation with fat, argues Katie Muller
Published: 7 May 2008 | More articles about: Body and Health, Culture and Media, Fashion and Image
Lap-dancing clubs are licensed in the same way as coffee shops. Anji Capes reports on the launch of a campaign to change all that
Published: 3 May 2008 | More articles about: Activism, Politics and Current Affairs
Is it feminist to be able to fix your own plumbing? Where are all the female tradespeople? Rhona-Mairead Sweeting considers the place of feminism in the construction industry and manual trades
Published: 6 April 2008 | More articles about: Work and Play
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Cranach painted Venus to titillate Luther's contemporaries and chaste virgins aimed at keeping women in check, argues Itala Atteih
Published: 8 May 2008 | More articles about: Art
Men get angry; women get PMS. Single men are bachelors; single women are spinsters. Jess McCabe wonders how Jessica Valenti limited herself to 49 examples of the double standard
Published: 7 May 2008 | More articles about: Books
Louise Livesey reviews another guide to life as a modern woman which blithely ignores everyone who isn't white, middle class and straight
Published: 13 April 2008 | More articles about: Books
The Spice Girls' come-back tour re-opens some questions about the nature of 'Girl Power'. Jennifer Thomson looks back fondly - but critically
Published: 5 April 2008 | More articles about: Music
Monica Dickens worked as a cook, servant, nurse, in an aircraft factory and as a junior reporter. Cazz Blase reviews her unsentimental portraits of working life in the first half of the 20th century
Published: 4 April 2008 | More articles about: Books
Why have so few women won the Turner Prize? Sue Gilbert argues that the award's youth has not protected it from sexism in the art world
Published: 2 April 2008 | More articles about: Events
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