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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?
ByNew Times,
New Thinking.
A century ago women activists worked together despite their political differences. Can they do so again?
ByKeir Starmer must accept that JK Rowling is right.
ByIt is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for British…
ByTraditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.
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ByMarriage, children and what constitutes the good life have become America’s most divisive culture war.
ByCasual misogyny is flooding the mainstream under the guise of anti-racism.
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ByIf most male US voters believe that Donald Trump is respectful to women, how are they behaving in their own…
ByThe former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a second…
ByShe was a lawyer for 15 years, then left to become a playwright. The resulting work has shifted approaches to…
ByConcepts popularised and dismissed a decade ago have returned to mainstream popular culture. Are we living in a time warp?
ByIn the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
ByOn the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
ByThe UN’s special rapporteur on violence against women and girls discusses the rights of refugees, sex-based violence in Gaza, and…
ByEvidence suggesting young gay people are most at risk from gender-affirming treatment goes back decades.
ByA short film at Tate Britain is a reminder of the glorious energy and contradictions of the women’s liberation movement.
ByBetween the Israeli government and atrocity deniers, the women raped in the 7 October attack are still being victimised.
ByA radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our female…
ByCelebrating pain does not make it go away.
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