Taxi driver to assembled Stranglings: “So, will you girls remember to leave a glass of milk out for Santa?” Miss Eight the Younger: “No. We leave brandy for him.” Miss Eight the Elder: “We did a test. We left milk and brandy and he left the milk...

I clicked through to the article about training bar staff to intervene to reduce the risk of rape, thinking, “No doubt it will all be all about telling women to stay safe.” I was wrong. Dr McGregor said staff … needed to be aware of the sexual risks...

It will be even more silent around here for a few weeks; we’re heading home to New Zealand for Christmas. But you could always go and read your way through the 19th edition of the Down Under Feminists Carnival, which is up at Mynxii’s place. Or the...

One of the most obvious results of contemporary feminism has been the establishment of a new academic subject: that of Women’s Studies. None of the courses can be said to have been welcomed with wild enthusiasm by the male academic establishment: at...

(Small brown Burmese kitten, sitting in a lap, looking at the camera, with a faintly unsure look on its face – “This is very nice, but I’m not quite sure what’s going on.”)