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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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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