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International Women’s Day 2010

International Women’s Day

4 Mar 2010

‘IT’S really about stepping back and understanding someone else’s plight,’ explains Edinburgh IWD organiser Jenna Sapiano, as she describes the aim of the capital’s contribution to International Women’s Day, taking place in the city this month. Now…

Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

(3 stars)29 Jan 2010

(Virago) When Natasha Walter published The New Feminism in 1998, it was with a triumphant air that she declared sexism to be in permanent decline. As New Labour women such as Harriet Harman, Mo Mowlam and Clare Short achieved high office, the signs…

The F Word: 100 Years Of Scottish Feminism

The F Word: 100 Years Of Scottish Feminism

Celebrating the anniversay of one of the country's greatest Suffragette marches

1 Oct 2009

One hundred years ago this fortnight thousands of women from all over Scotland descended on Princes Street in one of the biggest Suffragette marches the country would ever see. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst were the keynote speakers and guests of…

The Feminists of 1909

The Feminists of 1909

Remembering some of the women behind that 100 year old march

1 Oct 2009

Elsie Inglis Now probably best known for the Edinburgh maternity hospital that bore her name until its 1988 closure, Dr Inglis was one of the first graduates of the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women, and one of the original founder members of the…

Ladyfest

Ladyfest

The feminist festival returns to the capital

17 Sep 2009

After the success of last year’s month-long lady-focused extravaganza, Edinburgh’s own feminist festival has gone for a more boutique look this year in the lead up to the Gude Cause event (look out for our feature next issue). Still, they’re packing a…

Town Bloody Hall

Subject in process

Symposium on feminism and art set for CCA

14 Aug 2009

Lizzie Mitchell finds out about an upcoming day of film, music and vigorous discussion on feminism and art.

Trilogy

Trilogy

Feminism in ‘relevant again’ shocker

(5 stars)10 Aug 2009

Trilogy is a night-long, three-part exploration into the state of contemporary feminism. It’s joyous, life-affirming stuff; an adrenaline shot to a movement that seems to have lost its way in a world where increasingly brutal pornography is common…

Germaine Greer

Germaine Greer

16 Aug 2007

Writer, academic, critic and commentator Germaine Greer has been a particularly bristly thorn in establishment sides for the best part of 40 years. A native of Melbourne, she sprang fully-formed onto the global literary stage with The Female Eunuch, her…

Spawn and Die

Spawn and Die

Steve Cramer

(4 stars)16 Aug 2007

Sometimes we treat the laws of sexuality as if they were written by Derrida. Instead of obeying primal instincts that might lead us to the kind of blissful state that would render conflict redundant, we obey a repressed, materialistic, competitive mind…

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