‘Everyone knew it was better to be slim’
Warnings about the dangers of young girls being too thin grow ever louder. But Joanna Moorhead is glad her own daughters won't have to go through what she did as a fat adolescent.
Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services
· Attempt to replace lost dollars after ‘global gag’ · 70,000 died last year in backstreet operations
We’re not going bonkers, we just have a new disease
Michelle Hanson: Sylvia and I have been worried for some time that our minds were on the way out.
One year on
Last summer Dina Rabinovitch didn't really know what chemo was - she does now. Her g2 column on life with breast cancer ended in August, but in the first of a series of regular updates, she talks about life after treatment - and her new hair.
‘Is that my nipple under the bed?’
Kerry Fowler on the extraordinary joys, indignities and unexpected hazards of regaining the final part of her new breast.
Calendar girls
It has long been assumed that menstruation was somehow tied in with the moon. But evidence is mounting that even more mysterious forces are at work. Vivienne Parry explains.
Two to the power of 2 million
Hannah Pool: We black women face a double whammy when it comes to political representation.
Me and my girl
When her youngest child was diagnosed with Down's syndrome, Kathy Evans thought her world would fall apart. One year on, she talks about the joy she has brought.
Surgery or bust
One woman's story.
Have we created a generation of joyless, selfish monsters?
To you, it's a temper tantrum. To child psychiatrist Robert Shaw, it's the beginning of a slide into perdition. And it's all the parents' fault. Joanna Moorhead reports.