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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Why is it still legal to make deepfake porn?
Criminalising the use of a woman’s image without her consent shouldn’t be a complex issue.
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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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Babygirl casts a cynical eye on the post-MeToo workplace
This story of an office affair starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson is free of sanctimony: the misconduct is too…
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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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The Scottish government is ignoring women’s rights
A hearing at the Supreme Court exposed just how flawed its position on gender recognition is.
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Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.
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