Zoe Strimpel’s orgy of contradictions
Good Slut, her new book, is somehow outrageous and boring at once
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Gisèle Pelicot is not your hero
In her new memoir, Pelicot rejects the pedestal she has been put on
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Freya India can’t save our girls
Gen Z women already know their issues. They want solutions
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The legacy Rachel Cooke leaves behind
“Make mischief. Enjoy every day. Life is precious.”
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Laura Mulvey returns to the male gaze
The phrase coined 50 years ago by the filmmaker and theorist has itself been subject to forceful scrutiny
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Why I always make time to dream
Also this week: Empowering artists to challenge tyranny, and a bumper year for apples
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Why Donald Trump embraced Andrew Tate
The American right has more in common with the misogynistic influencer than it pretends.
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The fight for wages for housework
In the Seventies, one feminist movement campaigned to make domestic labour both visible and recompensed.
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Rewriting the story of Gisèle Pelicot
Caroline Darian’s I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again – an account of her father’s abuse of her mother – suggests…
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The year that body positivity died
Political sentimentalism was never enough to overturn patriarchal beauty standards.
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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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