Carolyn Roberts digs beyond headlines about the impact of the credit crunch on makeup sales and cosmetic surgery, to consider how the financial crisis may affect women in the UK
Published: 4 November 2008 | More articles about: Politics and Current Affairs, Work and Play
Maggie Lee tells of the devestating effect her hysterectomy had on her sexuality and more
Published: 2 November 2008 | More articles about: Body and Health, Sex and Relationships
Frances Downey reports back on an international conference aimed at driving up the number of female physicists
Published: 2 November 2008 | More articles about: Work and Play
Irish and British women must unite in the battle for reproductive rights, argue Ariel Silvera and Sinead Ahern, as they sketch out the history of abortion in Ireland and the UK
Published: 26 October 2008 | More articles about: Activism, Body and Health, Feminism, Politics and Current Affairs
We don't expect our reason for seeing a nurse or doctor to be broadcast to the waiting room. But that's exactly what happened to Rachael Halemor, when she wanted to get hold of emergency contraception
Published: 26 October 2008 | More articles about: Body and Health
One in four women experience domestic violence during their lifetime. Ella Alexander spent a day at a women's refuge learning about the human toll of a crime so common it is no longer considered newsworthy
Published: 19 October 2008 | More articles about: Politics and Current Affairs, Violence
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Literature-loving women flocked to York last month for the UK's only lesbian arts festival. Milly Shaw reports back
Published: 3 November 2008 | More articles about: Events
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
Published: 2 November 2008 | More articles about: Television
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
Published: 10 September 2008 | More articles about: Television
What does femme mean, and how does it differ from the 'traditional' femininity which feminism so often puts under the microscope? Milly Shaw reviews a book of photographs of and interviews with femmes from around the world
Published: 8 September 2008 | More articles about: Books
Janes In Love is an oddly bloodless story of friendship, boys and 'art attacks', says Sarah C L
Published: 7 September 2008 | More articles about: Books
Rebecca Lenkiewicz's take on the suffrage movement hinges on a clichéd story of forbidden love between seamstress Eve Douglas and Lady Celia Cain. Debi Withers is exasperated
Published: 7 September 2008 | More articles about: Plays
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