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Mattel has reinvented its doll in the language of empowerment, but it’s a hollow, plastic form of feminism

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One can’t stand the term feminism, the other thinks women are more powerful as a collective. Can they find any common ground?

A campaign by the activist group Fight Transphobia UniMelb against feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith escalated recently. There have been calls to boycott her course on feminism at the University of Melbourne. Posters and stickers around the campus and its environs have declared “Our demands: Transphobes and Nazis off campus” and…

"She gives up her voice for a man" isn't a valid critique of Disney's Ariel in the year 2023 – and it never was

Susan Sontag’s mixed feelings towards the movement that propelled her career

Abe has a reckoning about how he treated his daughter Midge, but is there time to truly change?

Victoria Bateman thinks "my body, my choice" should include how much clothing you wear.

Raised in a fiercely political family, Kerala’s former health minister K.K. Shailaja goes behind her beliefs, rigour and life experiences in her new book, My Life as a Comrade

IN Puerto Madero, the most exclusive neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, there is a small street named after Cecilia Grierson. Small buildings and…

Ueno’s books are hugely popular in China, where a crackdown on large-scale organising has stifled a nascent feminist movement