representation of women Archives

Forget Insatiable, watch Dietland instead

Becky Kukla4 September 2018

Becky Kukla nominates AMC’s Dietland with Joy Nash in the leading role as the (almost) perfect antidote to fat-shaming TV shows ...

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Don’t get swept into this Ocean

Guest Blogger10 June 2018

Lauren Fraser is not impressed by the Hollywood's continuing obsession with all-women reboots...

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Mansfield 66/67: a punchline too far?

Joanna Whitehead1 May 2018

Jayne Mansfield’s memory is mud in this tacky and tasteless documentary about her life and early demise, laments Joanna Whitehead...

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How you can drive the change you want to see in advertising imagery

Guest Blogger14 June 2017

Heidy Rehman encourages us to click on and purchase from a diverse range of images of women...

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You are born free and you are born brave

Ania Ostrowska13 March 2017

Ania Ostrowska chats to Erin Heidenreich, director of documentary Girl Unbound showing at the Human Rights Watch Festival in London...

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Being Jackie

Ngaire Ruth16 February 2017

Ngaire Ruth is mesmerised by Natalie Portman’s performance as Jackie Kennedy in Noah Oppenheim and Pablo Larraín’s retelling of four days in the life of the iconic First Lady...

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Bechdel Testing Theatre

Guest Blogger16 December 2016

Beth Watson of Bechdel Theatre wants to hear your conversations for a new project...

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Why a Muslim woman’s refusal to shake a man’s hand is a feminist issue

Monica Karpinski5 October 2016

A Muslim woman refusing to shake a man’s hand is a feminist, cultural, religious and political issue that exposes what it really means to be treated equally, writes Monica Karpinski...

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Romcom endgame, Bridget Jones style

EJ Stedman20 September 2016

EJ Stedman sends you to see the latest installment of the Bridget Jones saga...

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl: who’s afraid of teenage girls who defy stereotypes?

Mercedes McGrath3 August 2016

Mercedes McGrath praises The Diary of a Teenage Girl and argues the film shouldn’t have been given an 18 certificate as its target audience is younger...

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Diversity of women’s voices at the Chinese Visual Festival

Nuala Gathercole Lam5 July 2016

Nuala Gathercole Lam chats to the festival’s curator Xie Jingjing and filmmaker Yang Lina who both offer insights into Chinese women in film and on screen...

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Star Wars has always been a girls’ thing too

Guest Blogger2 January 2016

As a life-long Star Wars fan, Nick Beard hails the latest instalment of the saga for scoring diversity and feminist points...

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Superhero and survivor

Nick Beard31 December 2015

Nick Beard praises the TV adaption of Jessica Jones for its refreshing feminist credentials and bold survivor perspective...

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A fair perspective

Nick Beard22 November 2015

Nick Beard watches the second series of The Affair and finds a sophisticated examination of the gap between who we perceive ourselves to be and the reality of how we behave...

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A defiant exception

Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams24 October 2015

Sarah Louisa Phythian-Adams watches a futuristic drama set in a fictional Northern American town circa 2046 and finds a refreshing change from the usual limitations placed on female characters in sci-fi...

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Feminist South Park

Victoria Brewster2 September 2015

The creators of this long-running cartoon are open about its wide-ranging offensiveness, but does it sometimes subvert dominant norms to illustrate the raw deal girls often get? Victoria Brewster considers the case...

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“If you’ve written good characters, I think that their colour drops away”: interview with Gina Prince-Bythewood

Grace Barber-Plentie31 July 2015

Grace Barber-Plentie talks to Gina Prince-Bythewood, director of Beyond the Lights, about feminism, “black films” and the importance of a good soundtrack...

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What about Mrs Munro?

Victoria O'Neill30 July 2015

Victoria O’Neill traces the thread of exclusion of women from all fun activities, investigative and beyond, in otherwise brilliant Mr Holmes...

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