The contraceptive pill is having a PR crisis. Vaccine hysteria has exposed it
Comparing the risk of AstraZeneca-related blood clots with the pill was meant to be reassuring. Instead it sparked panic and anger among…
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The politics of everyday life: motherhood
To acknowledge the labour of mothering we must understand it is as a social and historical construction, one that is contingent…
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Sylvia Pankhurst: The great agitator
We should all be grateful to this doughty, irrepressible woman who battled so hard and sacrificed so much to make…
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Carol Dyhouse’s Love Lives examines how Cinderella stories have shaped women’s expectations
By focusing on fairy tales, Dyhouse gives a sense of narrative cohesion to the fitful, complex, uneven revolution in postwar family…
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In lockdown, I finally stopped experiencing everyday sexism. But on TV, misogyny is everywhere
I had been having an enjoyable evening with a silly movie, and then – boom – misogyny.
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“What happens when your body is a stranger to you?”: Sophie Mackintosh on destiny and motherhood
The novelist on feminist dystopia, free will, and what women choose to do with their bodies.
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From the front lines of a feminist disrupter campaign
The Women’s Equality Party knows it doesn’t have much hope of gaining a seat on 12 December, so it is…
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As shadow secretary for women, I fear a Boris Johnson government
“There is no doubt that this Prime Minister is sexist,” writes Dawn Butler.
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