A No Spoiler Review of Mrs America
To be honest, I didn’t originally want to watch Mrs America. I have studied the history of 1970s American feminism so hearing that Phyllis...
Wages Against Housework: “More smiles? More money.”
“More smiles? More money.” This was the rallying cry of
women around the world in the 1970s. They were adamant that women everywhere
should be paid...
Review: Florence Given’s debut book Women Don’t Owe You Pretty
Florence Given sells feminism as what it is: freeing and utterly delicious. She affirms and articulates precisely the points it feels so hard to put your finger on sometimes.
The societal consequences of the prosthetic womb in Helen Sedgwick’s ‘The Growing Season’
Imagining a world where reproductive technology has evolved to popularise prosthetic wombs, Helen Sedgwick’s ‘The Growing Season’ toes the line between utopia and dystopia...
A Taste of Honey Today
A Taste of Honey, a play by the Salford-born writer Shelagh Delaney, debuted in 1958 and is widely considered to be a landmark work...
Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Despite the recent post-#MeToo surge in the popularity of female-led films and films directed by women, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire...
Get Withs and Guilty Feminists
So here I am, tackling this morally ambiguous minefield head
on with an investigation into ‘get withs’ and whether or not they really are feminist.
Dear...
Dior’s Phoney Feminism
In Dior’s recent haute couture show, models walked down a
looping runway in a large building constructed to resemble a womb. Maria Grazia
Chiuri, Dior’s artistic...
Oxford Women’s Festival to celebrate achievement and solidarity
The 2020 Oxford International
Women’s Festival is set to take place
from Saturday 29th of February until
Sunday 14th of March, 50 years after
the inaugural Women’s Liberation
Conference...
‘Little Women’: endlessly adaptable?
Another 20 or so years, another Little Women; this time brought to us by acclaimed director Greta Gerwig and starring some of the hottest young actors of...
Girls to the Front: a brief history of Women in Rock
It is encouraging news that, according to a 2018 study by the guitar manufacturer Fender, 50% of new guitarists in the US and UK...
Oxford stands against transphobia
A demonstration in support of trans rights will be held today in response to a meeting of self-described feminist group Woman’s Place UK (WPUK)....
Review: Cuntry Living
Cuntry Living is a free termly zine which invites any gender, race, class, sexuality, or background to submit contributions which speak out against the oppression, subjugation and degradation of women
Sex and Sensibility: Are ‘Spiced Up’ Adaptations really that progressive?
Pulses were sent racing in 1995 when Andrew Davies’ television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice saw Mr. Darcy, played by a fresh-faced Colin Firth, emerge sopping wet from a lake in a translucent white shirt that barely clung to his torso.
