Tag: Feminism

Total Results: 410


No time for purity politics? Credit: Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Getty Images
10/12/2020 - 12:53pm

Feminism’s dangerous new allies The Left may have let women down, but be wary of false promises from the Right

Julie Bindel

Wednesday, September 16

16.09

Cuties isn’t kiddie porn — it’s tragedy We are too squeamish about the power and vulnerability that’s unique to female puberty

Mary Harrington

Monday, September 14

14.09

What if the feminists had won? Eleanor Rathbone's proposal to pay women for housework and childcare was just too ahead of its time

Mary Harrington

Tuesday, September 8

08.09

Why defunding the police will hurt women most The criminal justice system is the only safeguard for those in greatest need of protection

Louise Perry

Monday, September 7

07.09

What the West gets wrong about consent Modern feminists look askance at arranged marriages, yet turn a blind eye to violent misogyny

Jenny McCartney

Wednesday, August 19

19.08

How sexual empowerment screws women The only winners from sex-positive porniness are men

Mary Harrington

Monday, August 17

17.08

No one has the ‘right’ to have a baby The movement for fertility equality is pushing against the limits our bodies place on us

Louise Perry

Wednesday, August 5

05.08

‘Mrs America’, and where feminism failed The TV drama shows just how successful the campaign against female emancipation has been

Sarah Ditum

Thursday, July 23

23.07

Imagine a world without contraception A shortage of birth control could be embraced as an easy solution to shrinking populations

Mary Harrington

Friday, June 26

26.06

Why doesn’t porn ever get cancelled? The industry has been remarkably adept at positioning itself as beyond questions of morality

Sarah Ditum

Thursday, June 25

25.06

On your bike, Britain! Cycling liberated women in the 1890s, and is just the thing to free us from lockdown

Mary Kenny

Tuesday, June 23

23.06

Why ‘Labor of Love’ is a feminist masterpiece The revolutionary new dating show dares to take a single, older woman seriously

Zoe Strimpel