The lies we tell about Joan Didion
The late author may be the most misunderstood writer in the American canon.
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The faux-intellectualism of celebrity memoir
Publishers may have attempted to turn this once trashy genre into something more serious, but gossip prevails.
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Toxic positivity movements are gaslighting women
Celebrating pain does not make it go away.
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Carol Gilligan: why I changed my mind on the gender binary
The psychologist was a feminist icon for her work on how gender shapes our morality. But now, in her eighties,…
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The manosphere is poisoning conservatism
Fringe ideas about sex have increasing political power on the right.
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The problem with Charlotte Proudman
The “Feminist Barrister’s” entitled sensationalism detracts from her causes.
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Why do men think it’s feminist to hate on Barbie?
Progressive men see Barbiemania as a capitalist conspiracy. Women see a femininity they’ve had to repress for years.
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Nature will never be feminist
A new wave of pop science books argue the animal kingdom is full of sexually liberated females. Why do women…
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Why biological sex matters
Some argue that lived experience and personal choice trump biology – but they are wrong.
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The gender binary is false
We should question a mindset that viciously excludes whole groups of people.
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Simone de Beauvoir and the art of loss
Sixty years ago, the French writer’s unflinching memoir of her mother’s death tested the limits of her existentialism.
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The monsters of feminist art
How the audacious artists of the Seventies embraced disgust and redefined female beauty.
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Anohni: “There needs to be a reckoning”
The singer who rose to fame with her band Antony and the Johnsons on her mentor Lou Reed, transphobia and…
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What Gen X feminism forgets
A recent batch of books explores the anger of mid-life feminists towards their millennial and Gen Z counterparts. But are…
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Lucinda Williams: “Poor women? After a while that becomes ridiculous”
The songwriter on her stroke, country vs rock, and why she hates “feminists in music using the fact that they’re…
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Susan Sontag’s women problem
In the feminist thinker’s essays of the 1970s, members of her sex are portrayed as political pawns rather than human…
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The ancient Greeks will never be feminists
Publishing is obsessed with bending old male stories into womanly shapes.
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Kathleen Stock’s adventures in wonderland
During the philosopher’s talk at the Oxford Union politics and fantasy became the same thing.
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Adventures in the manosphere
Andrew Tate has turned five months of Romanian detention into a rallying cry. I went to a bootcamp for “alpha…
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Being in pain is bad enough, but being a woman in pain is even worse
Endometriosis, appendicitis, fractured vertebrae, and now my mother’s knee injury: why aren’t women taken seriously when they say they are…
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