Gregg Wallace and the revenge of the middle-class, middle-aged women
The response to the MasterChef presenter’s comments marks a turning point.
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“Your body, my choice”: a chilling slogan of the Trumpian alt-right
The phrase, partly a semi-ironic attempt to rile liberals, reveals an undercurrent of extreme misogyny in the US.
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What’s driving the anti-Sue Gray offensive?
Plus: Britain’s guilty libel laws and Boris Johnson at the Telegraph.
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Has Labour shifted on sex-based rights?
Members care about women’s issues and it seems the party is finally listening.
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What Hillary Clinton knows
Despite moments of frustrating caution, her memoir Something Lost, Something Gained is revealing about Bill and exhilarating on her feminist…
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The lessons Kamala Harris learned from Hillary Clinton
The vice-president’s campaign isn’t aimed at pleasing liberal feminist columnists.
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The vexed history of British feminism
A century ago women activists worked together despite their political differences. Can they do so again?
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Labour’s women problem
Keir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
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Virginia Woolf’s politics of peace
Published between the wars, Woolf’s essay Three Guineas still has lessons for today’s conflict-ravaged world.
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Demonising white women is not feminist
Casual misogyny is flooding the mainstream under the guise of anti-racism.
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Suzie Miller: “I was so moved to see my play Prima Facie changing the law”
She was a lawyer for 15 years, then left to become a playwright. The resulting work has shifted approaches to…
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The return of 2010s feminism
Concepts popularised and dismissed a decade ago have returned to mainstream popular culture. Are we living in a time warp?
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Why men shouldn’t control artificial intelligence
Existential anxiety about AI is just patriarchy’s fear of itself.
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Labour’s “feminist Andrew Tate” will not stop online misogyny
The idea of using positive, feminist male influencers to “counterbalance” social media sexism fails to understand today’s young male minds.
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Reem Alsalem on the biggest obstacles to ending violence against women
The UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls discusses the rights of refugees, sex-based violence in Gaza, and…
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The women that books built
How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture.
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Feminism has always been complicated – just ask the women of the Seventies
A short film at Tate Britain is a reminder of the glorious energy and contradictions of the women’s liberation movement.
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Stanley cups are not a feminist issue
Not all criticism of female-led trends is misogynistic.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s cynical faux-feminism
Maxwell had her chance to argue she is being punished because she is a woman. The jury didn’t believe it,…
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Taylor Swift’s hollow empowerment narrative
The singer’s faux-feminist branding is so convincing journalists are doing her PR for her.
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