Violence against women and girls is a deeper problem than politicians realise
All parents worry about their children from time to time, but now it feels different.
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Women and the shame of eating
Two new books show that the female appetite remains a source of danger and shame.
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Why terror targets Taylor Swift fans
On a street in Vienna, the star’s fans are building a sanctuary in defiance against the threat of terror and…
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Don’t compare men’s and women’s football
They are different entities. But one is not less important than the other.
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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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Politicians ignore the Mumsnet manifesto at their peril
It is hard to read the list of policy demands and not reflect that life is getting worse for British…
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“Pro-family” rhetoric and its fascist resonances
Traditional gender roles have propped up authoritarian regimes of the past. In Republicans’ views on women, the echoes are clear.
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Deepfake technology endangers us all
It’s not just politicians and global celebrities who suffer the consequences of AI-generated images: they can affect anyone with a…
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What the left and right get wrong about the politics of family
Marriage, children and what constitutes the good life have become America’s most divisive culture war.
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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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When women fight back
Three accounts of women who met male brutality on its own terms reveal the limits of justice – both within…
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American men don’t know what “respecting women” means
If most male US voters believe that Donald Trump is respectful to women, how are they behaving in their own…
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Abortion rights will be worse under Trump
The former president created the chaos and cruelty of America’s reproductive restrictions. And they will only intensify in a second…
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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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Judith Butler and the fear of gender
In the 1990s a new philosophy helped open up alternative ways of being. Nobody predicted it would lead to war.
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The strange history of the pill
On the podcast Jam Tomorrow, the story of the contraceptive pill begins with American GIs stationed in England and ends…
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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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Kemi Badenoch sticks to the facts
Evidence suggesting young gay people are most at risk from gender-affirming treatment goes back decades.
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