What the left and right get wrong about the politics of family
Marriage, children and what constitutes the good life have become America’s most divisive culture war.
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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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When women fight back
Three accounts of women who met male brutality on its own terms reveal the limits of justice – both within…
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American men don’t know what “respecting women” means
If most male US voters believe that Donald Trump is respectful to women, how are they behaving in their own…
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Abortion rights will be worse under Trump
The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a second…
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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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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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The strange history of the pill
On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
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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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Kemi Badenoch sticks to the facts
Evidence suggesting young gay people are most at risk from gender-affirming treatment goes back decades.
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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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The triple betrayal of Israeli women
Between the Israeli government and atrocity deniers, the women raped in the 7 October attack are still being victimised.
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How women were left out of the story of evolution
A radical new history argues that human society was shaped not by hunter-gatherer skills but the bodies of our female…
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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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How the MeToo backlash helped Russell Brand
Also this week: Bring on by-election season, and my predictions for Strictly Come Dancing.
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Don’t let TikTok tell you how to dress
Influencers are charging hundreds of dollars for consultations to tell you how to dress for your “seasonal colours” or “Kibbe…
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The problem with Charlotte Proudman
The “Feminist Barrister’s” entitled sensationalism detracts from her causes.
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The witchcraft generation
Gen Z is swapping traditional faiths for magic spells.
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