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Published in: 50.50Sexual exploitation in street gangs: protecting girls or changing boys?
In its recent report on sexual exploitation in street gangs, the Office of the Children's Commissioner for England...
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Published in: 50.50Sexual harassment in UK schools
Sexual bullying in the classroom rarely makes the headlines. But one in three 16-18 year old girls in the UK have...
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Published in: 50.50Political motherhood vs violence against mothers
The Activist Mothers of Xalapa have united their individual power as mothers to create a collective political...
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Published in: 50.50On girls, performance and the internet
Meet Catherine Bennett: an alternative, positive role model for girls. Created as an antidote to the flood of sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism: We are not calling for equal inequality
"Feminism is only frightening to those who gain the most from oppression, to those who would stifle the human spirit...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging patriarchy and other power relations
Feminists lift their sights to capitalism, racism and militarism. Cynthia Cockburn reports from the Feminism in...
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Published in: 50.50Sextremism: really as radical as they think?
Where the female body - through its societal projections in media, art, politics and religion - has always formed...
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Published in: 50.50Transgender: the challenge to feminist politics
There are so many battles yet to be won by feminists that we must not be distracted by internal schisms. If we can...
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Published in: 50.501% Feminism
Since Sheryl Sandberg has taken it upon herself to jump-start the stalled feminist revolution it’s worth taking a...
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Published in: 50.50Will academia ever graduate from sexism?
From the sexism of fresher’s week to under-employment after they graduate, to the closed walls of the highest...
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Published in: 50.50Making finance work for women
Just as it is not an inherent feature of the financial system to work against society, it need not be the case that...
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Published in: 50.50Turning the tide of media sexism
Comedy and social media are targeting Britain's Page 3 culture. With Lord Leveson's inquiry lashing the tabloid...
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Published in: 50.50Speak clearly and drive a big motorbike - on the road to equality in Danish politics
Politics will always be a man’s world if you listen to the men, says Danish MP Liselott Blixt. She told her own...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of Coalition Britain
Jeremy Hunt's recently-voiced and ill-founded opinion on abortion adds insult to injury. Coalition austerity...
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Published in: 50.50France: licence to rape?
A lenient gang-rape verdict has prompted outcry and a debate on France's inadequate response to rape. The French...
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Published in: 50.50The rise of the Erotocracy
Is the 21st century woman someone who doesn't have to choose between a career and kids, but is doomed to spend hours...
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Published in: 50.50Kate Middleton: the female body in the post-Berlusconi media
The publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge, and the backlash it evoked, reveal an uneasy and...
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Published in: 50.50Everyday feminism vs everyday sexism
A debate about the feminist economy cannot be brought to the school gates, but a discussion on sexting, advertising...
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Published in: 50.50Can men be feminists?
With men leading on women’s issues, even when we win, we lose. Men shouldn’t be the voices of feminism, but we can...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism: co-opting women’s voices
Feminism is being used by some states as a political proxy to gloss over economic policies that hurt women,...