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The Rise of the Nasty Women – reclaiming the feminist collective

The Rise of the Nasty Women

Each year I teach a lecture on gender and health to my third-year students.   Alongside ideas of gender roles and norms, gendered power relations and the move from a binary to a spectrum understanding of gender, I introduce the idea... More…
“Sweating like a pig, feeling like a fox”: women’s sporting bodies on Screen

“Sweating like a pig, feeling like a fox”: women’s sporting bodies on Screen

Women aged 14 – 40 years are the target of the latest Sport England campaign “This Girl Can”. The campaign is supposed to be breaking new ground in terms of the particular approach it takes to women and sport, but... More…