A collection of 171 posts
Arguments that patriarchy exists in the West today are largely dependent on reinventions of the concept that would be better dispensed with.
Scottish feminists are angry that an accomplished male sculptor has been commissioned to make a statue of a suffragette.
No country has tried harder to erase biology in the name of transgender rights. But thanks to the efforts of Scotland’s independent-minded feminists, the tide may finally be turning.
Forced to choose between believing the claims of Israeli women and maintaining solidarity with Palestinians, Western academic feminists chose the latter.
Many psychological and behavioural gaps between men and women have widened in more gender-equal countries, dealing a major blow to sociological theories of sex differences.
Jodi Picoult’s latest novel is a ham-fisted expression of cultural rage, embodying the most anodyne values of corporate human-resources departments.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Joan Smith, whose new book critically examines the 2,000-year-old propaganda campaign against imperial Rome’s leading women.
In a new book, Joan Smith critically examines the historical mistreatment of Ancient Rome’s leading women—including Emperor Augustus’ daughter Julia, who was denounced as a nymphomaniac and cast into exile.
The more we try to limit freedom in the interests of desirable social change, the less effective we will be in the long run, and the greater the number of additional problems we create.
Queer theory transformed me from a depressed, weird, intellectually curious child into a brainwashed teen who disfigured her body.
Victoria’s proposed hate speech legislation forces feminists to choose which is more important to them: the restriction of misogynistic speech, or the protection of their own political speech.
Even by Canadian standards, the province has become a hostile environment for women seeking to advocate for their sex-based rights.
That the political opponents of Let Women Speak call them ‘the far right’ doesn’t make them the far right. And the actual far right showing up to their rally uninvited doesn’t make the far right feminists, either.
Exploring the implications of beauty standards in women’s gymnastics.
For three years, Edinburgh’s rape-crisis centre was run by a male CEO who lectured sex-assault victims and staff about their ‘prejudice’ against the male body. How was this allowed to happen?