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Tank Girl won both
writing
and photography awards.
Another Daily piece – Beauty
for Rent – won a first-place
award from Columbia, 1996
As a magazine editor,
I strove
to represent women equally –
and positively... no easy feat
during the Brit 'lad movement',
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Women's issues remain a very
important part of my work, though my sense of humour has ruffled feathers
on occasion.
Beauty
doesn't come in a bottle: peeling back the myths about cellulite cream
Oxford Mail: "It's awful that women are conned into spending a lot
of money. Claims are made without good evidence, then women expect an
impossible result. There are no quick fixes. You need to learn to live
with your own body," says Dr Ann McPherson.
Beauty
for Rent: student strippers trade erotica for education
The Daily: Amanda Castleman spent three years investigating students who
strip to pay for University. The four-page pull-out section won a national
first place award for investigative journalism/in-depth feature from Columbia's
Golden Circle.
Where
groping helps the bottom line
MSN Underwire: Is pinching a woman's bottom in the workplace ever acceptable?
Amanda Castleman reports from Rome on molestie sessuali.
Facing
the bride of Frankenstein foods – makeup
Oxford Mail: Soya and corn oils are ingredients in numerous paints and
potions, especially skin creams, but no GM labels are required.
Fiancee
rapist
Lorraine Harding was violated and maimed. "It's too late for me," she
says. "I just want my children to be safe. No one will ever do this to
them."
Mary,
Mary
Continental Drift: Amid the clash of sense and sensuality, Italy struggles
to come to grips with femininity.
The
office dress code: who's really wearing the trousers?
Oxford Mail Commentary:"Even Barbie, the most pliant of female symbols,
gets to wear trousers. It's a sad day when we have to fight for the same
rights."
Tank
Girl: a woman of incongruities – sorority girl, fisheries major,
ROTC cadet
The Daily: "If a man comes home from a good job, cooks dinner, takes care
of the kids, spends time with his spouse – he's a hero. If a woman
does that, it's normal," Nicole Zinc explains. "I'm not extraordinary.
I'm just being a woman."
Time
for law and order on the Fertility Frontier
Italy Daily Comment: Italian IVF bill would endanger women, encouraging
unproven techniques and risky multiple pregnancies. Science and safety
should direct the legislation – not the moral musings of the Church.
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