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Women

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 | Written by Various Authors

Baby Beauty Queens

Eleanor M. reviews a BBC3 documentary about a beauty pageant for pre-teen girls

Published: 4 August 2009 | Written by Eleanor M.

Miss Naked Beauty UK: more degrading than Miss World?

Laura Doherty reviews a show that promised to fight impossible beauty standards, but fell into all the same traps as a beauty paegent

Published: 13 March 2009 | Written by Laura Doherty

Embarrassing Teenage Bodies advocates cosmetic labiaplasty

Channel 4's series Embarrassing Teenage Bodies is meant to reassure young people. But an episode which saw doctors perform labiaplasty on a 19-year-old achieved exactly the opposite effect, argues Bellavita

Published: 10 February 2009 | Written by Bellavita

Sex and the Substitutes

Alice Lawlor reviews some of 2008's Sex and the City copycats

Published: 18 January 2009 | Written by Alice Lawlor

The Virgin Daughters

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 | Written by Dawn Kofie

The Perfect Vagina

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 | Written by Amy Clare

What not to watch

A recent episode of Trinny and Susannah's latest makeover show suggested that women choose to work in supermarkets to hide in the frumpy uniforms. Alexandra M Kokoli reports

Published: 1 January 2008 | Written by Alexandra M Kokoli

How to Look Good Naked

How to Look Good Naked is a make-over show with a noble purpose - to make women feel good about themselves, argues Dawn Kofie

Published: 6 December 2007 | Written by Dawn Kofie

Loose Women

Loose Women portrays itself as feisty television fun, argues Dawn Kofie, but it patronises the female viewing public

Published: 2 June 2007 | Written by Dawn Kofie

WAG do you want to be when you grow up?

In WAG Boutique, Josefin Skullbacka finds a group of women all-too-willing to define themselves as the wives and girlfriends of footballers

Published: 29 March 2007 | Written by Josefin Skullbacka

Smelling of Roses?

Tampax present their scented tampons as 'natural', associating them with flowers. But Clare Burgess argues that advertising for menstrual products merely exploits and contributes to women's insecurities about periods and their bodies.

Published: 11 September 2006 | Written by Clare Burgess

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

Sheryl Plant ponders two recent advertising campaigns from McDonalds and Peugeot 407 which portray a world dominated by women.

Published: 4 March 2006 | Written by Sheryl Plant

Make Me Perfect

Helen Reeves is shocked at Make Me Perfect: a programme that encourages women with low self esteem to comply with mainstream sexist views on beauty rather than question them.

Published: 11 February 2006 | Written by Shelley Rees

Desperate Housewives

Jo Knowles argues that the suspiciously popular Desperate Housewives is no Sex and the City.

Published: 19 June 2005 | Written by Jo Knowles

FHM Music Channel

FHM has launched its own music channel and intrepid Natalie Smith finds a common theme in the videos. (Can you guess what it is yet)?

Published: 17 June 2005 | Written by Natalie Smith

The Apprentice

How come the female contestants for the job of Apprentice were so disappointing? Lorraine Smith pins her hopes on series two.

Published: 10 June 2005 | Written by Lorraine Smith

Make Me a Perfect Wife

Victoria sponge cakes and female submission do not a happy home make. Ealasaid Gilfillan reviews Channel 4's dubious TV series "Make Me a Perfect Wife".

Published: 5 November 2004 | Written by Ealasaid Gilfillan

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

Ellery responds to Julia Black's documentary 'My Foetus', which used images of aborted foetuses and was the first to screen footage of an abortion taking place. She ponders the use of imagery and pictures in the abortion debate.

Published: 1 June 2004 | Written by Ellery

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

The BBC 'disaster' series If... included a programme called If... Women Ruled the World which attempted to predict gender relations in 2020. Did it make a valid point, or was it just an extended version of the old Harry Enfield 'Women: know your limits!' sketch? Reviewed by Jennifer Drew

Published: 20 April 2004 | Written by Jennifer Drew

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

The BBC 'disaster' series If... included a programme called If... Women Ruled the World which attempted to predict gender relations in 2020. Did it make a valid point, or was it just an extended version of the old Harry Enfield 'Women: know your limits!' sketch? Reviewed by Meera Palia

Published: 20 April 2004 | Written by Meera Palia

Reversals

An investigation into gender inequality in the workplace? Hardly, says Lorraine Smith

Published: 20 December 2003 | Written by Lorraine Smith

Watching the Detectives

Beth Anderson recounts the story told in a documentary about one rape case, and wonders how we can improve the legal system.

Published: 20 September 2003 | Written by Beth Anderson

Not all girls (want to) go to Fendi paradise

In a recent Sunday Times article, Naomi Wolf joined the ranks of those claiming Sex and City is a ground-breaking neo-feminist epic. Alexandra Kokoli discusses Wolf's article and questions whether all that shoe shopping is really as liberating as it appears to be.

Published: 20 August 2003 | Written by Alexandra M Kokoli

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