Last year Senzeni Marasela created an art installation called Jonga: the Museum of Women, Dolls & Memories, in a shop-front in Huntly, Scotland. Here Marasela talks to Claudia Zeiske about Barbie and the ways that beauty standards and pressures impose differently on women of colour and white women
Published: 17 March 2010 | More articles about: Culture and Media, Fashion and Image, Interviews, Racism, Work and Play
In the second installment of her series, Cazz Blase looks at how punk was covered by the music and feminist presses, the work of female journalists, and how women punks came to be largely written out of the history books
Published: 14 March 2010 | More articles about: Culture and Media, Herstory
S's experience with vulvar vestibulitis - which makes penetrative sex painful - highlighted the phallocentric medical establishment and limited definitions of sex
Published: 14 March 2010 | More articles about: Body and Health, Men, Sex and Relationships, Soundbites
Can print-on-demand and self publishing help feminists today continue the legacy of the suffragettes & the women's liberation movement? Deborah Withers considers the potential
Published: 10 March 2010 | More articles about: Culture and Media
Women's involvement in British punk has been marginalised and written out of mainstream histories. In the next few months, The F-Word will run a series of features on women in punk by Cazz Blase. By way of introduction, here she sketches out her own first encounters with the genre, and carries out a vox pop in Manchester to gauge whether the person on the street can name any women in punk
Published: 28 February 2010 | More articles about: Culture and Media, Herstory
What has happened to the legacy of riot grrrl? asks Heather McIntosh
Published: 3 February 2010 | More articles about: Activism, Culture and Media, Feminism, Herstory, Work and Play
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Catherine Redfern gives some personal reflections on the Women's Liberation Movement @ 40 conference
Published: 18 March 2010 | More articles about: Events, Reviews
Jess McCabe reviews Justine Larbalestier's collection of 11 stories and accessible essays, which provide an engaging introduction to feminist scifi
Published: 17 March 2010 | More articles about: Books
This three-part BBC documentary has many interesting moments, say Charlotte Cooper and Jess McCabe. However, the series fails to adequately represent women of colour's involvement in feminism and conceives of the family through a heteronormative lens
Published: 8 March 2010 | More articles about: Television
Do you think feminism's job is done? Kat Banyard's book will remove your rose-tinted glasses, says Jess McCabe
Published: 27 February 2010 | More articles about: Books
Christiane Inmann's history of women's reading and writing is a delicious read, says Jessica Gjergji
Published: 22 February 2010 | More articles about: Books
The protagonist of Angela S. Choi's comic debut novel channels the anger of every woman who has been belittled or demeaned, says Kaite Welsh
Published: 21 February 2010 | More articles about: Books
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