Posts Tagged feminism
Downright smut to highbrow feminist literature
The good news if you like to read in the bath, is that despite all the talk of apps and i-whatevs, small-press women’s mags are flourishing. Our readers review some recent titles. Colourful, contemporary and challenging Potentia magazine The Netherlands €5 plus shipping I like glossy pages and colour in my magazines, and while I [...]
Ask a feminist, with Zoe Margolis
Girl with a one-track mind author Zoe Margolis sorts out our conundrums of modern, independent womanhood. I was given a book called ‘Porn for women’. It’s full of pictures of men, with speech bubbles in which they comment on the importance of housework or empathise with the reader’s supposed heartfelt desire for consumer items such [...]
Ask a feminist
Struggling to deal with the demands of modern womanhood? Exhausted from supervising the gender expression of family, friends, pets? Filament’s resident firebrand feminist Penny Red is here to help. I’m a woman of a certain age, and my friends keep tactfully suggesting that I look into Botox. How do I tell them to bog off [...]


