I’m a woman, get me out of here!

Women and equality this week on CW. Assistant Editor Sarah Boyes previews a new BBC documentary on the legacy of 1960s feminism, and finds its contested legacy expresses itself in contemporary concerns about women’s appearance. Mark Carrigan is sympathetic to feminist writer Natasha Walter’s acceptance that the cultural realm is important when thinking about female liberation, but points out the problem with simply reintroducing old ideas into a contemporary context. Timandra Harkness finds the 1948 film Letter from an unknown woman holds a pleasing artifice whose passive heroine is no role model for today.

Meanwhile, web editor Angus Kennedy disagrees with Kevin Rooney’s campaign to ban public schools in the Times, unpicking the debate about equality and arguing that it means more than simply removing privilege. And a Battle on Print from Sean Bell on the dangers involved in over-playing demands for transparency, especially when it comes to people’s private lives.

18 February 2010