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The cutting season: Female Genital Mutilation and the UK (by Alice Onwordi, November/December 2011 ): Over the school holidays hundreds of British girls are taken abroad to undergo a procedure that is internationally recognised as a violation of their human rights. Alice Onwordi reports
Book review: How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran (by Jenny Bunker, July/August 2011 ): Jenny Bunker enjoys Caitlin Moran's flippant feminism
Great pretender (by Sally Feldman, September/October 2010 ): Feminist icon, anti-Catholic fabrication – or just a woman battling in a man’s world? Sally Feldman uncovers the mysteries of Pope Joan
Abs fab (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2010 ): Men are living longer than ever before. But, asks Sally Feldman, is that any cause for rejoicing?
Dangerous liaisons (by Sally Feldman, January/February 2010 ): Will the new Policing and Crime Act protect prostitutes – or persecute them? Sally Feldman plunges into the underworld
What happened to the women's movement? (by Elizabeth Wilson, November/December 2009 ): Elizabeth Wilson reviews two new books on how to revive feminism
Diary: Backward step (by Maureen Younger, September/October 2009 ): Comedian Maureen Younger is unimpressed by the return of the rape joke
The Fall of the Imam by Nawal El Saadawi (by Philip Womack, July/August 2009 ): Philip Womack praises a formidable Egyptian novel
Unsafe havens (by Rahila Gupta, January/February 2009 ): The Government is planning tougher penalties for men who use trafficked prostitutes. But who is helping the women themselves? Rahila Gupta uncovers a distributing trend
Speak up (by Sally Feldman, September/October 2008 ): Why do women screech when men shout? Sally Feldman explores the sexual politics of the voice
Gender traitors (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2008 ): From 19th century anti-suffragists to today’s anti-feminists, Sally Feldman finds a common link between women who turn against themselves
Because you're worth it (by Sally Feldman, May/June 2006 ): Why do all the major religions have a fetish about women's hair? Sally Feldman celebrates a hidden source of power
Why I'm glad my daughter had under-age sex (by Sally Feldman, July/August 2004 ): Amid the clamours for censorship, celibacy and an end to teenagers' rights to confidentiality, Sally Feldman fulminates against the misguided moral crusaders