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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Is a feminist marriage possible?
A new history takes in everything from ancient Roman weddings to Don’t Tell the Bride to ask: can we redefine…
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Anatomy of a romantic hero
Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy presents a new male ideal: famous, feminist, fantastically handsome – and blind to your every flaw.
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How the Daily Mail blames women for the downfall of Tupperware – and everything else
The newspaper’s latest headline isn’t the first to hold female empowerment responsible for all the wrongs in the world.
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Rosie Duffield: “You never change sex”
The Labour MP’s views on gender self-ID have been met with fierce opposition. Can her party find a compromise?
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How-to guides have taken over everything
But real change happens outside of the parameters of pamphlets and manifestos.
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The feminist case against progress
From sex-positivity to abortion, liberal advances have dehumanised women, argues Mary Harrington – but “nature” is not always as kind as…
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Victoria Bateman: “I use my naked body to try and subvert things”
The feminist economist once saw modesty as a necessity in order to be taken seriously. Now, she protests nude.
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The uncomfortable truths of Hag feminism
Assertive older women are treated like they shouldn’t exist.
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The sex lives of medieval women
They were once considered far more lascivious than men – so how did women become the meeker sex?
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Angela Saini: “Societies haven’t always been male-dominated”
The British science writer argues that patriarchy is newer and more fragile than we think.
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