Feminism - Quillette

A Kiss Is Just a Kiss

The uproar over a fleeting outburst of uninhibited joy is ludicrous.

Heather Mac Donald

11 Sep 2023 · 8 min read

Quillette Cetera Episode 16: Oppressed or Oppressor?

Debating feminist philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith.

Zoe Booth

7 Sep 2023 · 1 min read

Quillette Cetera Episode 13: Beware Barbie

In an attempt to be provocative, the film rehashes old feminst tropes reminiscent of the 1970s.

Zoe Booth

13 Aug 2023 · 1 min read

On Sontag

A new collection of essays from the mid-70s offers a frustrating glimpse of the author’s strengths and weaknesses.

Riley Moore

4 Aug 2023 · 11 min read

Episode 11: The Deadly Consequences of Cancel Culture

And how mainstream feminism devalues motherhood.

Zoe Booth

28 Jul 2023 · 2 min read

One-Dimensional Woman Enters the Manosphere

Nina Power’s new book is fraught with contradictions and ideological incoherence.

Arturo Desimone

28 Jul 2023 · 7 min read

What Even Is ‘Trans’?

A new book on gender leaves no space for gender non-conformity that is not defined as 'trans'

Holly Lawford-Smith

26 Jun 2023 · 7 min read

Chaucer’s Bawdy Broad

More than six centuries after The Canterbury Tales first appeared, the Wife of Bath still has lessons to teach about love, sex, marriage, and—yes—feminism

Charlotte Allen

20 Jun 2023 · 24 min read

Contemporary feminist thought is correct to identify the male gaze as the default way of seeing, but has largely overlooked the fact that the gaze places power squarely in the hands of women, not men.

Marilyn Simon

12 May 2023 · 11 min read

Samantha Geimer and Emmanuelle Seigner in Conversation

The two women most directly affected by the 1977 Polanski scandal discuss guilt, shame, feminism, #MeToo, the media, and the search for truth and understanding.