Female genital mutilation: asylum seeker fights deportation to the Gambia
Female genital mutilation is illegal in the UK, but an asylum seeker fears it will be forced on her daughter if they are deported
Northern Ireland: Larkin with the law
Editorial: Attorney general John Larkin cannot use the law to force the Marie Stopes sexual health clinic to close, so he should stop intervening in the matter
Bodyform’s bloodless snark attack
Arwa Mahdawi: The sanitary pad brand's response to a Facebook comment is funny, but it remains within the conventions it's satirising
Kat Banyard: ‘We were sold a lie on an almighty scale, that equality had been won, the battle was over’
Britain's leading young feminist talks about the global exploitation of pornography, women's right to an abortion, and the mass lobby of parliament she is leading
After 2012 women take one step forward, two steps back
The Olympics showcased women who are strong in every sense. So why are we already back to linking femininity with helplessness and frailty, asks Afua Hirsch
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review
Can women only be creative if they're having great sex? Rachel Cooke on a dotty theory
My feminist perspective? Knowledge is power
Naomi Wolf: Those who criticise Vagina: A New Biography have forgotten that pro-sex data is a vital part of our movement's history
The strangest ways to get pregnant
Will hot bricks, needles and blueberry jam really help me conceive? My friends and relatives seem to think so
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review
Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner
The buzz: how the vibrator came to be
In 19th-century Britain, women suffering from chronic anxiety were prescribed pelvic finger massage. Doctors found this tedious and time-consuming, so they invented something to do the job for them. Decca Aitkenhead reports