Giorgia Meloni’s selective memory
The Italian prime minister’s autobiography revises her and her country’s history. But Meloni’s success is a template for right populist…
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Wes Streeting’s maternity revolution
The Health Secretary has vowed to overhaul the NHS’s most scandalous service.
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Abortion’s unwelcome return to British politics
Parliament will vote tomorrow on a bill that could break the consensus on feminism’s great achievement.
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Fang Fang’s acts of resistance
The Chinese author’s controversial novels are powerful narratives of patriarchal violence.
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The long shadow of WeightWatchers
The company couldn’t keep up with the new landscape created by Ozempic, but the diet industry is as exclusive as…
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Andrea Dworkin’s dispatches from the sex wars
In her 1981 treatise, Dworkin called porn “the orchestrated destruction of women’s bodies and souls”. Forty years later, has sex-positive…
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Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope is an exercise in the male gaze
The Italian director’s latest film is all beauty and no sense.
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The sounds that shape us
Alice Vincent’s Hark asks why gender, age and parenthood change the way we listen.
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Why the Scottish trans movement lost
Through its dogmatism, the SNP alienated even those sympathetic to trans rights.
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Church and an all-girls school gave me great freedom to be uncool
Might we have been less competitive, less obsessed by body image, had our circle been diluted with boys?
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Picasso’s mistreated muses
It was women who drove his art to its heights – and women who bore the brunt of his callousness…
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The cyclical history of abortion rights
The past has been marked by periods of acceptance and intolerance of women’s bodily autonomy. Can it offer lessons for…
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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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Maternity leave isn’t “leave” – it’s hard work
Just as women need to be told about the realities of pregnancy, we should be honest about the next stage.
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The legacy of “pro-life” abortion bans is death
Infant mortality rates in the US have rapidly increased since Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022.
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An ode to female friendships
From Elena Ferrante to Amandaland, the power of brilliant friends is rightly celebrated.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s triumphant return
Dream Count, the Nigerian writer’s first novel in more than a decade, is a powerful exploration of misogyny, masculinity and…
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Why celebrity surrogacy announcements provoke such anger
Lily Collins has become a lightning rod for outrage and dismay in the fraught territory of fertility.
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How the assisted dying bill could unleash male violence
The realities of control and abuse have been ignored in drafting this proposed law.
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The woman who made the rape kit
This story of Martha Goddard’s forensic method does more than reclaim her role in history – it gives her a…
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