Issue 474

July/August 2014 - "Feminism"

• GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - JULY / AUGUST 2014

From this month's magazine:

• Argument: Can plastic surgery make you feel free?

• Is there a feminist spring?

• Feminists: older and younger

• New Feminism: 3 stories from Egypt, France and Brazil

• Social change is created by people on the street

• No more cupcakes!

• Female genital mutilation

• Rwanda country profile: two different views

Web exclusives:

• Fishing for justice in Brazil

• Ebola is not just a West African problem: the world must wake up

From the blogs this month:

• America's most dangerous export

• Using our own languages is the first step to an African Renaissance

• Trade unions are the forgotten friend of feminism

• End of Ramadam: quiet strength, loud weakness

• Lessons in peace from the First World War

• PHOTO STORY: Gaza - no safe place

• Another crisis in Palestine: the PA

• 500 dead: 'Mr Obama, do you have a heart?'

• India's Muslim women say "No second wife!"

• A win for women in the Church of England

• Help us finish the film "The Spirit Level"

• New times, new battles, in India and other countries

• Nicaragua's Grand Canal: more questions than answers

• Argument: Can plastic surgery make you feel free?

READY LESSONS FROM THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES:

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners) : FEMINISM

• READY LESSON (for Intermediate learners): US exports and Obesity